Duncan Brown Cooper family papers, 1838-1965.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Duncan Brown Cooper family papers, 1838-1965.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35309781

Papers of the family of Duncan Brown Cooper, including accounts, correspondence, clippings, some genealogical data, legal papers, photographs, speeches, and writings. Approximately one third of the 1,400 letters in the collection were written in sympathy and support for Duncan Brown Cooper and his son, Robin, after the shooting of Edward Ward Carmack by Robin on Nov. 9, 1908. Many letters comment on the trial of Cooper and his son, including criticism of Judge W.T. Hart and the Tennessee Supreme Court decision to uphold Cooper's conviction for murder. Other letters praise Cooper's pardon by Governor Malcolm Rice Patterson in 1910. About 200 letters received by Duncan Brown Cooper are of a political nature. Some 350 letters deal with the automobile business in Texas, 1909-1910. Other letters are of a family or personal nature, including those to Cooper's daughter, Sarah Cooper Burch, from her son and his family in Memphis, Tenn. and County Leitrim, Ireland, ca. 1940-ca. 1960. Prominent correspondents include George Bancroft, Isham G. Harris, Grover Cleveland, Malcolm Rice Patterson, Joseph Jefferson, Jacob McGavock Dickinson, Austin Peay, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Other correspondents include John B. Bond, W.I. Cherry, Edmund Cooper, Hugh P. Dunlap, James M. Head, F.B. Hemphill, John C. Houk, Sarah Polk Jones, Harvey Marion LaFollette, Katharine LaFollette, C.W. Maier, J.M. Mayes, W.F. Milner, Katrina Williamson, and E. Bright Wilson. Some genealogical notes on the Brown, Donelson, Burch, and Jones families are included in the papers. The writings include a short account of the death of Meriwether Lewis by Cooper Frierson.

4, 000 items.

Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7371862

Related Entities

There are 33 Entities related to this resource.

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68b1x43 (person)

George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman, and an active promoter of secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. As U. S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, Bancroft established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and later served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), Prussia (1867-1871), and the German Empire (1871-1874). He is best remembered however for his 10-volume History of the United States, a work which fellow historian Leop...

Brown family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md8011 (family)

Harris, Isham G. (Isham Green), 1818-1897

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d0b9m (person)

Governor of Tennessee, United States senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to President Hayes, 1877 Oct. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270506120 Isham Green Harris (1818-1897) was a state legislator and governor of Tennessee. During the Civil War, he was a voluntary member of the staffs of A. S. Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and J. E. Johnston. From the guide to the Isham G. Harris Letter, ., 22 August 1863, (University of North C...

Milner, W. F.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gm9tvx (person)

Cooper, Duncan Brown

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n88xd2 (person)

Nashville, Tennessee newspaperman and politician. From the description of Duncan Brown Cooper family papers, 1838-1965. (Tennessee State Library & Archives). WorldCat record id: 35309781 ...

Jones, Sarah Polk, 1833-1905.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h43cqz (person)

Mayes, J. M., fl. 1889-1891.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n3qsf (person)

Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b56hc2 (person)

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were explorers. Nicholas Biddle was requested by William Clark to write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the description of Journal, 1803 Aug. 30-1803 Dec. 12; 1810. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298060 From the guide to the Meriwether Lewis journal, August 30, 1803 - December 12, 1803; 1810, August 3...

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hr4p19 (person)

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...

Williamson, Katrina.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pv86wt (person)

Peay, Austin, 1876-1927

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62n6p84 (person)

Politician, Governor of Tennessee (1923-1927). From the description of Papers, 1923-1927. (Austin Peay State University). WorldCat record id: 30733247 ...

Cherry, W. I.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx310b (person)

Hemphill, F. B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ht494s (person)

Cooper, Edmund, 1821-1911

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv35h3 (person)

Burch family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zq368z (family)

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rg6j0c (person)

Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell, NJ, 18 March 1837; moved to Buffalo, NY in 1855; Erie County Sheriff, 1871-1874; Mayor of Buffalo, 1882; Governor of New York, 1883-1884; President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897; married Frances Folsom, 1886; died at Princeton, NJ, 24 June 1908....

Donelson family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j6gcw (family)

Head, James Marshall, 1853-1930.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m1vfr (person)

Carmack, Edward Ward, 1858-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64m9hv3 (person)

Editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, U.S. representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907. From the description of Edward Ward Carmack papers, 1850-1942. WorldCat record id: 24561258 Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) of Sumner County, Tenn., was a lawyer, editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, United States representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907. He was assassinated in Nashville in 1908 by Duncan Brown Co...

Burch, Sarah Cooper, b. ca. 1878.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j97sx5 (person)

Dickinson, J. M. (Jacob McGavock), 1851-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t15c6r (person)

Patterson, Malcolm R. (Malcolm Rice), 1861-1935

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc2j3r (person)

LaFollette, Katharine.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66419jb (person)

Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx1c6d (person)

American actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Palm Beach, to Mrs. Sullivan, 1903 Feb. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489232 From the description of [Letter] 1893 Feb. 22 [to] Madame / J. Jefferson. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 244251899 From the description of Letter, 1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451408 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Clancy and Reilly, 1880 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Hart, W. Thomas, 1836-1901

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w39ht9 (person)

Houk, John Childes, 1860-1923.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t2858 (person)

Bond, John B., fl. 1870.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh28r6 (person)

Wilson, E. Bright, fl. 1906-1910.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fv06s8 (person)

Jones family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fg2sfs (family)

Dunlap, Hugh P.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp1pjn (person)

Maier, C. W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6127d5p (person)

LaFollette, Harvey Marion, 1858-1929.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fb6pkg (person)

Cooper, Robin, -1919

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6np3rpt (person)