Daily Republican., 1883-04-05
OBITUARY..
Death Of the Venerable Peter
Cooper.

Hon. Peter Cooper died at his resi-
dence in New York, of pneumonia, ear
ly yesterday morning The first syInp-
toms appeared on Sunday, and resulted
from exposure while attending meet
ing the previous day at the Cooper In
Stitute.
Mr. Cooper was born in New York
city February II, 1891. His maternal
grandfather, John Campbell, was May
or of New York and Deputy Quarter
master General during the revolution
ary war. His father was u lieutenant
in the war Of the revolution, and after
wards established hat factory. Peter
assisted in this business, and for one
year only attended school for half Of
each day At the age Of seventeen he
left his fathers house and was appren-
ticed to n coaci maker for four years.
After that he went to Hampstead,
Long Island, and worked there three
years at 81 so for man who was max
ing a machine for shirring cloth. He
next bought the right of the machine
for the State of New York, and having
made an important improvement, reap
edssa large profit during the war of 1872.
With this money he bought a twenty
years lease of two houses and six lots
of ground opposite where Cooper Union
now stands. Here he erected four
large wooden dwelling houses, and in
one vf them carried on the grocery
business.
Subsequently he bought ten acres of
ground on Maspeth avenue, Brooklyn,
on which he erected mills for the manu-
facture of glue, the Trenton Iron
Works, and the Wire Works now
managed by Hon. Abram S. Hewitt
and Ex-Maycr Cooper, and employing
5000 men. In 1898 he purchased three
thousand acres Of land at Baltimore,
Maryland, and erected the Canton Iron
Works about the time Of the com
pletion of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
He was the builder of the first
locomotive used for drawing cars. Hav-
ing sold the Canton Iron Works, Mr..
Cooper next built large iron foundry
at Thirty-frst street and Third avenue
New York, and founded the Trenton
N. J., Iron Works. He took an active
interest in the New York canals, and
was for many years President OF
the New York, Newfoundland and
London Telegraph Company, and was
also identified with other teegraphit
enterprises.
In 1876, against his wish, he was fore
ed into the candidacy for the Presidency
on the Greenback ticket. The cherish
ed project of his life was the establish
ment Of the Cooper Institute, which ht
founded in 1854, to be devoted forever
TO the union of art and science as ap
piled to the useful purposes of life
Amid all his successes, commercial anC
otherwise, this will remain his most en-
during monument. His wife, who was
Mrs. SarahBedell, of Hampstead, l.. |.
and whom he married in 1913, died il
1869, and but two Of his children, ex,
Mayor Cooper and Mrs. Abram S Hew
lit, survive him.
The funeral will take place from AL
Souls Church, Fourth avenue anC
Twentieth street, on Saturday morning
The Rev. DR.. Collyer, assisted by thu
Rev. Howard Crosby, will conduct tn,
services. The following named hav,
been selected as pall-bearers: Hon
Hamilton Fish, Wilson q. Hunt, Chief
Justice Charles p. DAILY, John T. Ag
new, General Alexander $. Webb
Postmaster Pierson, jackson $. Schultz
W. H. Appleton, A. A. Low, Cyrus w
Field, John L. Parsons and H. M
Shetfelin. The funeral will be as pri
vate as possible under the circumstan
ces.