When Mendis Diego Cooper Jr was born on 22 August 1872, in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, Mendis Diego Cooper, was 25 and his mother, Sophia Bowman Prince, was 21. He married Annie Johnson on 29 July 1902, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Overton Township, Clark, Nevada, United States for about 5 years and United States in 1949. In 1910, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as farmer in Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States. He died on 8 April 1952, in Logandale, Clark, Nevada, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Logandale Cemetery, Logandale, Clark, Nevada, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesMission Journals of Mendis Diego Cooper Jr. while Laboring in the East Arkansas Conference of the Southwestern States Mission 1898-1900 This record consisted of 5 little notebooks that were transcribe …
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