Maj. Frederick J. Cope

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Husband Maj. Frederick J. Cope ^{1 2}

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           Born: 14 Oct 1801 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 7 May 1888 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Cope (      -      ) 1 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Rohrer (      -      ) 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. Frederick J. Cope

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He learned the printer's trade with David McLean, then proprietor of the Greensburg Gazette. The latter went to Pittsburgh and purchased the Pittsburgh Gazette (now Commercial Gazette) of John Scull, its founder. Mr. Cope then purchased the Greensburg Gazette, Aug. 23, 1822, and published it until Sept. 29, 1826. It was a small sheet (demi-paper) of four pages, each of four columns. He enlarged it one column before he sold it to Paul Morrow, then cashier of the bank there. His paper was distributed by the mails and often by carriers. The cost of the raw paper was then quite high, and in those times the printers employed were such as could be picked up, and oftentimes of but little experience. He traded his printing-office to Paul Morrow for the farm he thereafter owned, which was patented and owned by John Brownlee before the burning of Hannastown in 1782. For many years he contributed largely to the agricultural and educational press, and the articles thus contributed gave him great celebrity.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 283.

2 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 311.

3 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 503.

4 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 307.