The “Fenimore” in “James Fenimore Cooper” comes from the writer’s mother, whose maiden name it was. Cooper entered Yale College at the age of 13.

James Fenimore Cooper is an old-fashioned author, his work the dense, compulsory stuff of mid-level literature-survey courses. Surely, his life and career could have no bearing on our era.

Only one restaurateur exploited the building’s history by naming his establishment after Cooper. A 1963 newspaper ad invited diners to enjoy a full-course Easter dinner for $4.25 at the “old homestead ...

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James Fenimore Cooper Jr. joined his heavenly Father June 10, 2021 at the age of 88. He was born July 26, 1932 in Pensacola, Florida to James Fenimore Coope ...

Tucson’s Cooper Street is named for the renowned author of the first detailed novels of frontier life in American literature. James Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, to ...

WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE (5 March 1840-24 January 1894), author, was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, to Charles Jarvis and Hannah Pomeroy Woolson. ... James Fenimore Cooper. In 1871, the family ...