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James Fenimore Cooper

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James Fenimore Cooper

Author of Last of the Mohicans


    Elizabeth Fenimore

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    • Mother of James Fenimore Cooper — 2nd Generation
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1752 
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    • Death Date:
    • 15 Sep 1817 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 12 Nov 1774 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey 
    • Notes: 
    • Some sources give the marriage date for William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore as 12 DEC 1775. This appears to be in error.

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  • Sources for Elizabeth Fenimore

    • 4 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1884, Vol. 15, p. 10.
    • 5 Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association: The Eighteenth Annual Meeting . . ., Vol. 16, Unknown: New York State Historical Association (1917), 199-200, 203.
    • 6 Cooper, James Fenimore, The Legends and Traditions of a Northern County, New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press (1921), 233.
    • 7 Cooper, William and James Fenimore Cooper, A Guide in the Wilderness or the History of the First Settlements in the Western Counties of New York, Rochester, New York: Printed for George P. Humphrey (1897), i.
    • 8 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), 1576-1577.
    • 9 Ogden, Mary Depue, et. al., Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography: Memorial and Biographical, Vol. 1, New York: American Historical Society, Inc. (1921), 310.