death_date death_place religion birth_place children image_size parents birth_date spouse signature image article_title name occupation
4 april 1883 new york city , new york unitarian new york city , new york edward cooper sarah amelia cooper 210px john cooper and margaret campbell 12 february 1791 sarah cooper peter cooper signature.svg peter cooper 1900.jpg peter cooper
 peter cooper industrialist , inventor , philanthropist
peter cooper

peter cooper -lrb- february 12 , 1791april 4 , 1883 -rrb- was an american industrialist , inventor , philanthropist , and candidate for president of the united states .
he designed and built the first steam locomotive in the u.s. , and founded the cooper union for the advancement of science and art in manhattan , new york city .
