The Fennimore Cooper

 

                                        

William Cooper December 2nd 1754 - December 22nd 1809

William Cooper was a husband to Elizabeth Fenimore and married on  December 12th  1774. He was a  merchant, land developer and the founder of Cooperstown NY. Later in life he was a politician and was appointed county judge then was in the US congress for Otsego county.

 

James Fenimore Cooper September 15th 1789 - September 14th 1851 

Born in Burlington, New Jersey the eleventh of twelve children at one year old his family moved to the town his father founded. James was enrolled at Yale but was kicked out when he blew up another student's door and locked a donkey in a library. When William died James and his four brothers inherited large sums of money and land. On January 1st 1811 he married Susan de Lancy. They had seven children 

Susan Fenimore Cooper daughter of James and Susan Fenimore Cooper Born on April 17th in 1813 in Scarsdale, New York. Susan was a founder of the thanksgiving hospital and an orphanage both on Cooperstown. She was also one of the first woman to write about natural history she also wrote about women's suffrage 

Otsego Hall built between 1793 and 1799 as the Coopers manor home located on the west side of Otsego lake. As of march 2017 the official name is the Fenimore Art Museum

The farmers Museum has been a working farm since 1830 originally owned by James Fennimore Cooper. The museum has 23,000 items and 24 buildings to show what life was like in the 19th century