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Gordon Cooper 2004 Deaths

Gordon CooperAge: 77 pioneering NASA astronaut who ventured into orbit twice—in 1963 as the pilot of the last Mercury mission and in 1965 as commander of Gemini 5. Died: Ventura, Calif., Oct…

John Gordon COOPER, Congress, OH (1872-1955)

COOPER John Gordon , a Representative from Ohio; born in Smallthorne, England, April 27, 1872; immigrated to the United States in 1881 with his family, who settled in Youngstown, Ohio; attended the…

Cooper, James Fenimore

(Encyclopedia) Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789–1851, American novelist, b. Burlington, N.J., as James Cooper. He was the first important American writer to draw on the subjects and landscape of his…

Cooper, Anthony Ashley

(Encyclopedia) Cooper, Anthony Ashley: see Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of.

Cooperstown

(Encyclopedia) Cooperstown, residential and resort village (2020 pop. 1,738), seat of Otsego co., E central N.Y., on the Susquehanna River and Otsego…

Cooper, Peter

(Encyclopedia) Cooper, Peter, 1791–1883, American inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist, b. New York City. After achieving success in the glue business, Cooper, with two partners, erected (1829…