Hon. James Cooper and Jane Miller

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Husband Hon. James Cooper ^{1 2}

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           Born: Aug 1809 - near Emmitsburg, Frederick Co, MD 1
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           Died: Mar 1863 - Columbus, Franklin Co, OH 3
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       Marriage: 1837 3

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Wife Jane Miller ^{2 3}

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         Father: John Matthew Miller (      -      ) 2 4
         Mother: Jean Galbraith (1781-1863) 4

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Children

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1 M [Unk] Cooper

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2 M Mathew Cooper ³

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3 F [Unk] Cooper

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         Spouse: Dr.  Page (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. James Cooper

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He received a collegiate education and entered the law office of Thaddeus Stevens, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as a student, in April, 1832, and was licensed a lawyer April 28, 1834, and at once opened an office in Gettysburg. He served a number of terms in the Legislature and was speaker of that body; was attorney-general of the State; two terms in Congress, and six years a United States Senator. He was an active and earnest Whig in politics. In 1857 he removed to Frederick City, where he renewed the practice of law successfully until 1861, when he was commissioned a brigadier-general in the United States Volunteers and went into the active service in command of a brigade; but not being in robust health, from the exposures and fatigues of army life, he contracted a severe attack of pneumonia and died at Columbus, Ohio, in March, 1863, aged fifty-two years.
He was a man of pleasing manners, about six feet two inches in height, a fine Grecian face, a fluent speaker and a brilliant and successful politician. In 1837 he married Jane Miller, of Carlisle, who is still living. They had two sons and one daughter. One of the sons died in the army, the other, Mathew, is living in West Virginia. The daughter is the wife of Dr. Page, deputy surgeon in the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Miller

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from Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

1 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 77.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 276.

3 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 78.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 661.