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Varnum Augustus Cooper

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Varnum Augustus Cooper

Birth
East Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Death
10 Feb 1916 (aged 80)
Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA Add to Map
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VARNUM AUGUSTUS COOPER,
CHAPLAIN, 18TH. CT.___
B. JULY 8, 1835
D. FEB. 10, 1916

Was born in Killingly, Connecticut, July 8, 1835.

He had by nature and inheritance the endowments and qualifications of a clergyman. His father, Rev. Calvin Cooper (March 31, 1779 to July 21, 1846), was the son of Rev. Nathaniel, Jr. (July 4, 1748 to July 16, 1821) and Mary (Aldrich) Cooper.

He was a Baptist minister, an eloquent preacher, a believer in woman's rights, inviting, them to speak in his pulpit, a man of great catholicity of spirit.

April 25, 1856, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah P. and Abigail (Potter) Bucklin, granddaughter of Squire and Amy (Pray) Bucklin, and of Robert Knight and Sarah (Smith) Potter and a descendant of William Hingham Bucklin, who came from England to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635. Four children were born to them,
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Source: books.google.com/books?id=snIWAAAAYAAJ...

Member of General Lander G.A.R.Post#5,Lynn,Ma.
VARNUM AUGUSTUS COOPER,
CHAPLAIN, 18TH. CT.___
B. JULY 8, 1835
D. FEB. 10, 1916

Was born in Killingly, Connecticut, July 8, 1835.

He had by nature and inheritance the endowments and qualifications of a clergyman. His father, Rev. Calvin Cooper (March 31, 1779 to July 21, 1846), was the son of Rev. Nathaniel, Jr. (July 4, 1748 to July 16, 1821) and Mary (Aldrich) Cooper.

He was a Baptist minister, an eloquent preacher, a believer in woman's rights, inviting, them to speak in his pulpit, a man of great catholicity of spirit.

April 25, 1856, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah P. and Abigail (Potter) Bucklin, granddaughter of Squire and Amy (Pray) Bucklin, and of Robert Knight and Sarah (Smith) Potter and a descendant of William Hingham Bucklin, who came from England to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635. Four children were born to them,
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Source: books.google.com/books?id=snIWAAAAYAAJ...

Member of General Lander G.A.R.Post#5,Lynn,Ma.


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