Brief Life History of James R.
When James R. Cooper was born on 22 February 1856, in Ohio, United States, his father, James L. Cooper, was 43 and his mother, Sally Maria Lindsay, was 38. He married Mary Ann Wood on 25 February 1880, in Otoe, Nebraska, United States. He lived in Berlin Township, Otoe, Nebraska, United States in 1880. He died on 9 October 1927, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 71.
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- J R Cooper in household of J L Cooper, "United States Census, 1880"
- James R. Cooper, "Nebraska, Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Headstone image of Dennis West from billiongraves.com
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World Events (8)
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1867
Nebraska is the 37th state.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub, container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In North America, the English surname has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates from other languages, for example Dutch Kuiper .
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper ).
Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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