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- The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II
COOPER, Frederic Taber, educator, was born in New York, N.Y., May 27, 1864; son of Varnum Eugene and Mary Hurlbut (Taber) Cooper; grandson of Hiram and Eliza (Colburn) Cooper, and of Thomas Tillinghast and Cornelia (Caverly) Taber; great-grandson of Calvin Cooper; great-great grandson of Nathaniel Cooper and great-great-great grandson of Nathaniel Cooper, who came to America from England and settled in Northbridge, Mass., about 1730. On his mother's side his descent is traced to Thomas Taber, who was married in 1672 to Mary Thompson, granddaughter of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. He was graduated from Harvard in 1886, attended lectures at the Harvard law school during his senior year, received the degree of LL. B. from Columbia in 1887, and was admitted to the bar in 1888. He was married in 1887 to Edith, daughter of Amasa A. Redfield of New York, lawyer and author. He abandoned the legal profession, was associate instructor in Latin in Columbia, 1891-94, and in 1895 was made professor of Sanskrit and assistant professor of Latin in the University of the city of New York. He became a member of the Harvard club of New York city in 1889, of the American Oriental society in 1891, of the American philological association in 1896, and of the New York academy of sciences in 1897. Columbia college conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1891, and that of Ph.D. in 1895. He is the author of Word Formation in the Roman Sermo Plebeius (1895); and of contributions to periodical literature, to the International Cyclopædia, to Harper' s Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, and to the Library of the World's Best Literature.
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