Brief Life History of John Haggin
When John Haggin Cooper Jr was born on 1 August 1859, in Kentucky, United States, his father, John Houghton Cooper, was 49 and his mother, Margaret L. Haggin, was 38. He married Elizabeth Montgomery Kenney on 7 December 1887, in Georgetown, Scott, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Midway, Woodford, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Midway, Calloway, Kentucky, United States in 1911. He died on 6 January 1911, in Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States.
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- John Cooper, "United States Census, 1860"
- John W Cooper, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- John H. Cooper, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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