Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2015).
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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last 15 years in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of th…
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culture · American writer (1789–1851) · writer · military officer · novelist · children's writer · biographer · Western author · also James Fenimore Cooper, Cooper
Born 15 September 1789 · Died 14 September 1851 · Q167856
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2015· 1 entry
2013· 1 entry
Cooper was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame
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1895· 1 entry
“Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”
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1856· 1 entry
Five years after Cooper's death, his History of the Navy of the United States of America was republished in an expanded edition
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1851· 1 entry
Died 1851-09-14.
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1846· 1 entry
Cooper published Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers covering the biographies of William Bainbridge, Richard Somers, John Shaw, John Templar Shubrick, and Edward Preble
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1844· 1 entry
Cooper's Proceedings of the naval court martial in the case of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a commander in the navy of the United States, &c
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1843· 3 entries
An old shipmate, Ned Myers, re-entered Cooper's life
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As Ned Myers; or, A Life Before the Mast, an account of a common seaman still of interest to naval historians
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“s story, which he published in 1843 as Ned Myers; or, A Life Before the Mast, an account of a common seaman still of interest to naval historians. In 1846, Cooper published Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers covering the biographies of William Bainbridge, Richard Somers, John Shaw, John Templar Shubrick, and Edward Preble. Cooper died in 1851. In May 1853, Cooper”
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1839· 1 entry
Cooper published History of the Navy of the United States of America, a work that he had long planned on writing
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1833· 1 entry
Cooper returned to the United States and published "A Letter to My Countrymen", in which he gave his criticism of various social and political mores
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1832· 1 entry
Entered the lists as a political writer in a series of letters to Le National, a Parisian journal
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1831· 1 entry
Cooper was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician
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1826· 1 entry
Cooper moved his family to Europe, where he sought to gain more income from his books, provide better education for his children, improve his health, and observe European manners and politics firsthand
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1824· 2 entries
And concentrated on its research in the late 1830s
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General Lafayette arrived from France aboard the Cadmus at Castle Garden in New York City as the nation's guest
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1823· 1 entry
Became a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia
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1820· 1 entry
When reading a contemporary novel to his wife Susan, he decided to try his hand at fiction, resulting in a neophyte novel set in England he called Precaution (1820)
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1809· 1 entry
Cooper accompanied Woolsey to Niagara Falls, who then was ordered to Lake Champlain to serve aboard a gunboat until the winter, when the lake froze over
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1808· 2 entries
Aboard the USS Vesuvius, an 82-foot bomb ketch that carried 12 guns and a 13-inch mortar
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When he received his commission as a midshipman
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1806· 2 entries
At the age of 17, Cooper joined the crew of the American merchant ship Sterling as a common sailor
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As a sailor and joined the crew of a merchant vessel at age 17
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1789· 1 entry
Born 1789-09-15.
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