Document G.122 · find a grave memorial · transcription: verbatim
Find a Grave memorial 9336855 - Daniel C. Cooper, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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- 1818
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What is transcribed: The whole memorial: header with plot, inscription (as typed by the contributor), bio, family panel (two parents, spouse, four siblings and six children, with memorial ids) and nine images - photographs of his gravestone and plot, and of a historical marker in Cooper Park, Dayton. The parser returned no Ancestry record links (the records in suggested_records were taken from an earlier reading of the page).
People named
| As written | Role | Identified as | What this document says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel C. Cooper | deceased | Daniel C Cooper ?–1818 | birth: 20 Nov 1779, Morris County, New Jersey death: 13 Jul 1818, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio burial: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio |
| George Cooper | parent | George Cooper 1745–1801 | |
| Margaret Lafferty Cooper | parent | Margaret (Lafferty) Cooper 1743–1825 | |
| Sophia "Nabby" Greene Cooper Loury | spouse | ||
| Bryan Lafferty Cooper | sibling | Bryan Lafferty Cooper 1775–1798 | |
| Mary Cooper | sibling | Mary Cooper 1778–1794 | |
| John G. Cooper | sibling | John G Cooper 1780–1822 | |
| Fanny Cooper | sibling | Fanny Cooper 1782–1801 | |
| Lucy Ann Zeigler Cooper | child | ||
| Margaret C. Cooper | child | ||
| George Z Cooper | child | ||
| David Zeigler Cooper | child | ||
| Charles Greene Cooper | child | ||
| Daniel E. Cooper | child |
Transcription and notes
- Name: "Daniel C. Cooper"
- Birth: "20 Nov 1779 - Morris County, New Jersey, USA"
- Death: "13 Jul 1818 (aged 38) - Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA"
- Burial: "Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum", "Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA"
- Plot: "Section 55, Lot 1"
Bio, as given on the memorial:
First city's benefactor, founder of Dayton. He was a surveyor acting under orders from Gen. Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory; Gen. Jonathan Dayton; Gen. James Wilkinson; and Col. Israel Ludlow. He led a surveying party to the mouth of the Mad River. Here he laid out the city with broad streets “four poles wide” and built most of its early mills, naming it after General Dayton with streets named after the other three. Can you find those streets on a map of downtown Dayton? Cooper served as Dayton’s first justice of the peace and as a member of the state legislature. He also donated ground for a cemetery, churches, and schools as well as for the present Cooper Park next to the downtown branch of the Dayton-Montgomery County Public Library. He strained himself while moving a church bell, leading to his death in 1818.(bio by: Joel Farringer)
Family panel: - parent: "George Cooper", 1745-1801, memorial 7633052 - parent: "Margaret Lafferty Cooper", 1743-1825, memorial 7633063 - spouse: "Sophia "Nabby" Greene Cooper Loury", 1780-1826, m. 1801, memorial 23984134 - sibling: "Bryan Lafferty Cooper", 1775-1798, memorial 70801854 - sibling: "Mary Cooper", 1778-1794, memorial 7633049 - sibling: "John G. Cooper", 1780-1822, memorial 7633056 - sibling: "Fanny Cooper", 1782-1801, memorial 188605806 - child: "Lucy Ann Zeigler Cooper", 1806-1807, memorial 23984120 - child: "Margaret C. Cooper", 1808-1811, memorial 23984121 - child: "George Z Cooper", 1810-1811, memorial 23984119 - child: "David Zeigler Cooper", 1812-1836, memorial 23984118 - child: "Charles Greene Cooper", 1814-1817, memorial 23984117 - child: "Daniel E. Cooper", 1818-1818, memorial 279678856
Inscription, as given on the memorial: "DANIEL C. COOPER PROPRIETOR OF DAYTON BORN NOV. 20, 1779 DIED JULY 13, 1818 BY DANIEL C. COOPER CHAPTER D. A. R."
Photograph (historical marker, Cooper Park):
COOPER PARK Daniel C. Cooper (1773-1818) perhaps more than any other deserves to be called the founder of Dayton. A surveyor with Israel Ludlow, Cooper settled in Dayton in the summer of 1796 and became titular owner of the town when the original proprietors defaulted. He platted the city laying out broad streets "four poles wide" and built most of the early mills. Cooper served as Dayton's first justice of the peace and as a member of the state legislature. He also donated ground for a graveyard, lots for churches, schools and public buildings, as well as the land for this park. ERECTED BY THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - 1974