. The story of Cooperstown . Fenimore tion as a wood-carver, and afterward becamefamous as a sculptor. While the alterations werein progress Cooper had as his guest in Coopers-town Samuel F. B. Morse, who assisted him incarrying out his ideas for the reconstruction of theHall, and drew the designs which gave it morethe style of an English country house.^ The local ^ James Fenimore Cooper, by Mary E. Phillips, p. 262. 260 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN gossips said that Morse aspired to the hand ofhis friends eldest daughter, Susan Augusta Feni-more, then twenty-one years of age, but thatCooper had n
. The story of Cooperstown . Fenimore tion as a wood-carver, and afterward becamefamous as a sculptor. While the alterations werein progress Cooper had as his guest in Coopers-town Samuel F. B. Morse, who assisted him incarrying out his ideas for the reconstruction of theHall, and drew the designs which gave it morethe style of an English country house.^ The local ^ James Fenimore Cooper, by Mary E. Phillips, p. 262. 260 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN gossips said that Morse aspired to the hand ofhis friends eldest daughter, Susan Augusta Feni-more, then twenty-one years of age, but thatCooper had no mind to yield so fair a prize to animpecunious painter, a widower, and already. Otsego Hall forty-three years old. Morse was at this timeexperimenting with the telegraph instrumentwhich was afterward to bring him wealth andsuch fame as an inventor as to overshadow hisreputation as an artist. The Cooper Grounds, now kept as a publicpark by the Clark Estate, include the propertythat belonged to Fenimore Cooper. Otsego Hall,which was destroyed by fire in 1852, after the FENIMORE COOPER IN THE VILLAGE 261 novelists death, must be imagined at the centre ofthe grounds, where its outward appearance, aswell as the arrangement of its interior, may bereconstructed by the fancy from the woodenmodel made from a design by G. Pomeroy Keese,and now to be seen in the village favorite garden-seat exists in facsimilein its original situation at the southeast corner ofthe grounds. When in 1834 the old mansion of the founderof Cooperstown began once more to be occupiedit was a matter of great interest to the people ofthe village. Many of them well rememberedFenimore C
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