Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-05
PETER COOPER.

Early Hour Yesterday ELornIng "A
Sketch OF His Long and Useful Career.
New YORK, April 4.-Peter Cooper died
of pneumonia at o'clock this morning,
aged ninety-tvo. Mr.. Cooper celebrated
his nirety-second birthday Feb. u. He
had been ailing some time with slight
cold, and Sunday was compelled TO remain
in bed. The family physi-
clan was summoned and at
tient was suffering from a
severe attack OF pneumonia. Coop
er's advanced years were great
drawback to his recovery. About O'Clock
! this morning he called his son, ex-Mayor
Cooper. and Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt, q
daughter, aad her family to tho bedside,
saying to them he knew he had not long
to live, and they must become reconcilsd
to the fact. Death occurred at exactly 3
a. N. He remained conscious up TO the
tins of death, and made several remarks
with regard to family affairs. Many
friends of the family and prominent citi-
zens called at the house this morning and
expressed sympathy with the bereaved
family. Mr.. Cooper was born in this city
February y, 1871, and lived life full of
honors from early boyhood.
Among many who called to express sor-
| row for Mr.. Cooper's death were Samuel
j. Tilden, Algerman S. Sullivan, Gen.
Alexander S. Webb and Andrew II. Green.
During his last hours Mr.. Cooper mani
tested his great interest in Cooper insti-
| tute, and spoke to Mr.. Hewitt and his son
ex-Mayor Cooper about the manner in
which the work should be carried on after
his death.
Information of Mr.. Cooper's demise
quickly spread through the city, exciting
feelings of regret. Flags are at half
mast on Cooper institute, the city hall, the
postofice building, the Newspaper Offices,
and other public and private buildings.
| The funeral of Peter Cooper will take
| place from All Souls church Saturday.
| Rev. DR.. Collyer, assisted by Rev. Howard
Crosby, will conduct the services. The
following are the pail bearers: Hamilton
| Fish, Wilson G. Hunt, Chief Justice DAILY,
john IL. Agnew, Gen. Alex. S. Webb, Post
master Pierson, jackson S. Schultz, W. H.
| Appleton, A. A. Law, Cyrus w. Field,
| John e. Parsons and II. NJ. Schieffelin.
The fuaeral will be as private
as possible under the circumstances.
| Many learned and charitable societies and
various exchanges have signifed their in
| tention to send delegations. The interment
will be in Greenwood cemetery, where the
remains of the philanthroPhist's wife rest.
Many callers expressed sympathy, and
many kilograms of coincidence were re-
| ceived, one from England.
Dr.. Hall has issued a corrected state
mant of Cooper's illness. He says Cooper
has been troubled with d sore throat some
| weeks, but was otherwise in fair health.
| Sunday revealed pneumonia, and yesterday
| the symptoms became worse, leaving no
hope OF recovery.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Peter Cooper, a benevolent and enter
p-Ising manufacturer, born IN New York
city Feb, -, 1871. His maternal grand
father, John Campbell, was mayor of New
York, ana deputy quarter-master general
during the revolutionary war. His father,
also a revolutionary officer, established q
hat mandatory, i'll which Peter assisted
him. He afterwards learned coachmaking,
the manufacture of cabinet ware, then the
grocery business, and finally engaged in
the manufacture of glue and isinglass
about 1928. IN 1880 he erected extensive
irOnworks at Canton, near Baltimore. Hs
next erected a rolling and wire mill in the
city of New York, in which he first sue
cessfully applied anthracite to the pud-
ding of iron. In 1845 he removed the
machinery to Trenton, N. j., where he
erected the largest rolling mill then in the
United States for the manufacture Of rail-
road iron, and there first rolled wrought
iron beams for firs-proof buildings. At
Baltimore he built the first locomotive
engine on this continent. He was presi-
dent of the New York, Newfoundland &
London Telegraph company; president of
the American Telegraph company, and of
the North America Telegraph association.
He has served in both branches of the New
York common council, and was a promi-
nent advocate of the construction of the
Croton aqueduct. In pursuance of his
great object, the education and elevation
of the industrial classes, the "Union for
the Advancement of Science and Art"
commonly called the Cooper institute, has
been established in New York at the inter
section of Third and Fourth avenues, at a
cost of over 100000, devoted, with all its
rents and profits, to the instruction and
elevation of the working CLASSES in New
York. 1t includes school of design for
females, evening courses of instruction
for mechanics and apprentices in the ap-
plication of the sciences to the business of
life, free reading room, galleries of art,
and collections of modern inventions, and
a polytechnic school. He was the green
back labor candidate for president of the
United States in 1876, but of course had
no expectation of being elected. His vote
was comparatively insignificant.
Summit Avenue Park.