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Cooper, Susan Fenimore
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813–94), daughter of
J.F. Cooper, to whose works she added biographical prefaces. She was the author of
Rural Hours (1850), journal jottings on nature and life at Cooperstown, and
William West Skiles: A Sketch of Missionary Life (1890).
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Cooperstown a heavenly haven.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/21/2000; ; 700+ words
; COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. _ The loudest noise all day in Cooperstown might be the noon whistle. Cooperstown is a place where not everyone has to know what time it is. Morning, afternoon and evening provide all the precision that most folks seem lucky...
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COOPERSTOWN WINDS UP BASEBALL HALL OF FAME'S 50TH.(Vacation Guide)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/21/1989; 700+ words
; ...tales. Old money poured in to make Cooperstown a Norman Rockwell-like village of...to Cooper. Come Friday, June 2, Cooperstown will get another boost of exposure as...village's population of 2,342 as Cooperstown blasts off with the 50th anniversary...
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Baseball's past kept safe in charming Cooperstown But there's more to this small town than just America's pastime
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 7/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...over the entrance to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, tells me. Here, in 1839...matter. Historical reality aside, Cooperstown remains the mythical birthplace of baseball...tradition deserves a creation myth. Cooperstown's place in baseball history was sealed...
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NEW GAME IN COOPERSTOWN: POLITICS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/11/1999; 700+ words
; ...known for baseball. But this summer, Cooperstown has become a place for hardball. Political...babies during her early July stop in Cooperstown on the initial leg of her testing...makes his own political pilgrimage to Cooperstown for a meeting with the Otsego County...
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GRAND SLAM; VILLAGE COBBLER COOPERSTOWN HAS HIT A HOME RUN IN FOOTWEAR WITH A UNIQUE SPREAD AND AN ASSORTMENT THAT HAS ALL THE BASES COVERED.(Cobbler Cooperstown )(Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Footwear News; 1/30/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Barbara Schneider-Levy Village Cobbler Cooperstown may be a stone's throw from the legendary...James Fenimore Cooper. "They call Cooperstown 'Little Manhattan,'" Wayne Alexander...brands exposure. "In a place like Cooperstown," Alexander added, "Village Cobbler...
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American Pastoral.(Cooperstown, New York's)(opera and charm)
Magazine article from: Town & Country; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Cooperstown, New York, home to baseball's Hall...and I took off for a long weekend in Cooperstown, New York--birthplace of America...minds. We were intent on exploring Cooperstown's "other" side: its summer opera...
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COOPERSTOWN KNOWS ART OF WELCOMING 40,000 FANS.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/23/1999; 700+ words
; ...is prepared to pull it off, though, Cooperstown seems most likely. Townspeople, government...exactly been taken by surprise,'' said Cooperstown police chief Michael Crippen. ``It...asked for the weekend off.'' The Cooperstown police, in conjunction with the state...
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FESTIVAL VS. FESTIVAL: COOPERSTOWN WEIGHS IN.(CNY)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 9/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...in 1993, is facing a challenge from Cooperstown's first-ever PumpkinFest Weighoff...s steering committee. Wiberg says Cooperstown's festival will be sanctioned by the...room for both festivals, noting that Cooperstown and Oswego are far enough apart to draw...
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COMMUNITY FIRST BANKSHARES TO ACQUIRE COOPERSTOWN BANK HOLDING COMPANY
PR Newswire; 8/27/1992; 700+ words
; ...COMMUNITY FIRST BANKSHARES TO ACQUIRE COOPERSTOWN BANK HOLDING COMPANY FARGO, N.D...owns Farmers & Merchants Bank of Cooperstown, N.D. Community Insurance Inc...26 million and is the largest bank in Cooperstown, a community of 1,200 in east central...
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From Cooperstown
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 7/24/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Davis (ph). This annual event in Cooperstown, New York is avidly followed by lots...up on a dairy farm not too far from Cooperstown. So, she got to go there three or...COMMENTATOR: The best part of going to Cooperstown, the best part of all, was, of course...
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Cooperstown
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Cooperstown, New York state settlement 59 miles...James Fenimore Cooper in Chronicles of Cooperstown (1838). The younger Cooper used the...National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame. Cooperstown has been restored, as a 19th‐...
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Cooper, James Fenimore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...to Otsego Hall, a manorial estate at Cooperstown on Otsego Lake, west of Albany, N...gentleman at Mamaroneck. He moved to Cooperstown (1814), but in 1817 moved again to...victorious. He returned to live at Cooperstown, where his favorite companion and amanuensis...
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Nelson, Samuel
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Nelson, Samuel (b. Hebron, N.Y., 10 Nov. 1792; d. Cooperstown, N.Y., 13 Dec. 1873; interred Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown), associate justice, 1845–1872. Nelson was raised on the farm of...
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Abner Doubleday
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...asylum, declared that in 1839 Doubleday invented the game at Cooperstown, N.Y. In fact, Doubleday's obituary described him...sports, and scholars since have effectively discredited the Cooperstown myth. Doubleday served in the Mexican War and in the Civil...
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James Fenimore Cooper
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of small land grants, he had established the village of Cooperstown at the foot of Otsego Lake. Here, in the "Manor House...Judge Temple in the novel is Judge Cooper, and Templeton is Cooperstown; and originals for most of the characters can be identified...
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