Ancestry of
James Fenimore Cooper

Author of Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Cooper 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Fenimore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Sep 1789 
  • Birth Location:
  • Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Sep 1851 
  • Death Location:
  • Cooperstown, Otsego, New York 
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  • American author whose works included Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder.

• Sources for James Fenimore Cooper

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1957, Vol. 111, p. 280.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1884, Vol. 15, pp. 9-15.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 1577.
  • ⁴ Moore, Rayburn S., Constance Fenimore Woolson, New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. (1963), 18.
  • ⁵ Ogden, Mary Depue, et. al., Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography: Memorial and Biographical, Vol. 1, New York: American Historical Society, Inc. (1921), 310.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "James Fenimore Cooper", (accessed 02/04/2014).