The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . ildings—an incongruous group from which rosethe mansion of the judge, towering above all itsneighbors. Fruit-trees, which the Indians had cul-tivated, were already beginning to assume the moss * No authorized life of James Fenimore Cooper has been written, ithaving been his wish that none should be. But an excellent substitute,in the form of a biographical essay or study, has been published by Pro-fessor Lounsbury, the note in which it is written being seen in its finalp
The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . ildings—an incongruous group from which rosethe mansion of the judge, towering above all itsneighbors. Fruit-trees, which the Indians had cul-tivated, were already beginning to assume the moss * No authorized life of James Fenimore Cooper has been written, ithaving been his wish that none should be. But an excellent substitute,in the form of a biographical essay or study, has been published by Pro-fessor Lounsbury, the note in which it is written being seen in its finalpassage as follows: America has had several authors, gifted withhigher spiritual insight than he, with broader and juster views of life,with finer ideals of literary art, and, above all, with far greater delicacyof taste. But she counts on the scanty roll of her men of letters, thename of no one who acted from purer patriotism or loftier finds among them all no manlier nature and no more heroic died at the age of sixty-two, having spent about thirty-sevenyears of his life in Cooperstown. 358. 1 Jf. PcUiZ* ** &fa (From an engraving, bv J. B. Forrest, of a miniature by H. Chilton.) WILLIAM COOPER and inclination of age. William Coopers laterresidence, the Elizabethan mansion called OtsegoHall, was erected in 1797-1799-* An early storekeeper was a Frenchman named Le Quoy, or Le Quoy de Mersereau, who hadbeen Governor of the French Island of Martiniquein the West Indies. By a curious coincidence , who had settled several miles to the west-ward, one day in 1793 while in Cooperstown, enteredM. Le Quoys store to purchase some tobacco and,astonished to find that he knew the proprietor,walked out in an indignant state of mind. WhileGovernor of Martinique, Le Quoy, it appears, hadrefused to confirm the appointment of Renouard asport captain of St. Pierre, and an estrangement wasthe Very little has been known by the general public,of Wil
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