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New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Burlington (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Cooperstown (New York, United States) (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Europe (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Switzerland (Switzerland) (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
James Fenimore Cooper (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officersJames Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
September 14th, 1851 AD (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
1789 AD (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
1851 AD (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
September 15th, 1789 AD (search for this): entry cooper-james-fenimore
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Author; born in Burlington. N. J., Sept. 15, 1789: James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate. He was six years in the naval service. Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales. He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.