Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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John Cope




Husband John Cope 1

           Born: 1 May 1783 1
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           Died: 18 Mar 1811 - Natchez, Adams Co, MS 1
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         Father: Joseph Cope (1740/1740-1820) 2 3
         Mother: Ann Taylor (      -      ) 1 3 4





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General Notes: Husband - John Cope


Having little taste for practical agriculture, his father placed him at Westtown Boarding-School. He subsequently had the benefit of a course of instruction on natural philosophy and the higher mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania. He also availed himself of the opportunity afforded by his residence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to study nautical astronomy, with the Latin, French, and Spanish languages. His progress in these pursuits naturally directed his attention to the business of teaching as a profession, in which calling he spent some years in Philadelphia. At this period he mingled much with scholars and strangers, visitors and sojourners in the city, literary and scientific men, among whom he was highly gratified to make the acquaintance of the younger Michaux, who was then engaged on his work descriptive of the forest-trees of North America. With a desire to see more of the world, in the spring of 1810 he went to Pittsburgh and down the Ohio River, with a view of engaging in the mercantile business at some point on the Mississippi River. At St. Louis, Missouri, his health failed, with threatening symptoms of pulmonary disease. Arriving at Natchez, Mississippi, about the beginning of the year 1811, his disease became more serious, and he sank under it a few weeks afterward. It was said of him that he "was unquestionably one of the most profound and promising young mathematicians of his day."

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Sources


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

2 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 502.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 100.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 25.


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