The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . P^^fl^ 114 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. York. In the New York assembly he was an in-tense opponent of the English Gov. Cornbury. Heserved as chief justice both of New York and New
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . P^^fl^ 114 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. York. In the New York assembly he was an in-tense opponent of the English Gov. Cornbury. Heserved as chief justice both of New York and NewJersey from 1710 to 1738; was New York state coun-cilor, New Jerseys first governor (1738), which officehe held until his death. He died at Kingsbury,N. J., May 31, 1746. COOPER, Peter, philanthropist, was born inthe city of New York Feb. 13, 1791. His birthplacewas a house which stood not far from Coenties grandfather, on his mothers side, was JohnCampbell, an alderman of the city,and a deputy quartermaster-gen-eral during the revolutionary war,who expended a large private for-tune in that cause. Mr. Coopersfather was a lieutenant in the pa-triot army. After the war wasended he settled in New York fora time, where he had a hat factory,and the earliest recollections ofPeter Cooper went back to thetime when his head was just aboutthe height of a., ordinary table,and when he did his share of thehat-making by pulling hairs out ofrabbit-skins.
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