Published county history — Snell & Clayton, History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881), two passages about Dr. John Cooper: the biographical sketch in the chapter "The Medical Profession of Warren County", book pp. 513–514 (PDF pp. 720–721), and the "Early Physicians" paragraph in the Phillipsburg chapter, book p. 552 (PDF p. 767).

What this document records

🎯🎯🎯 a full biography of dr john cooper naming both his parents

BOOK pp. 513–514, verbatim (chapter "The Medical Profession of Warren County", under Sketches of Deceased Physicians; small-caps in the original rendered as bold):

JOHN COOPER was born at Long Hill, Morris Co., N. J., March 24, 1765. His father, > Daniel, was sheriff and a justice of the peace in Morris County; his mother, Ann Cross, > was a daughter of the Rev. John Cross, the first pastor of the Presbyterian Church of > Basking Ridge, N. J., in 1732. After preliminary study, Dr. Cooper commenced the study of > medicine; was a pupil of Dr. Caleb Halsted, of Connecticut Farms, Dr. Melanchthon > Freeman, of Middlesex Co., N. J., and Drs. Richard Bailey and Wright Post, of New York > City. He was licensed to practice in New Jersey, Nov. 6, 1787, and immediately afterwards > admitted to membership in the New Jersey Medical Society. He subsequently removed to Warren > County, locating at what is now Phillipsburg, boarding with Capt. Henry Bidleman, who lived > in an old stone house on the site now occupied by the fine residence of S. L. Shimer, Esq. Here > he continued for a few years in a very laborious and extended practice, riding over hills and > valleys early and late… It was said by one who knew him well that, upon his first board bill > becoming due, Capt. Bidleman suggested to him that "short payments made long friends," so the > doctor bestirred himself to meet his first important obligation. Suffice it to say, he met this > and all future contracts. In November, 1794, he ⟨p. 514⟩ removed to Easton, Pa., where > he spent the remainder of his life in the active duties of his calling. He married, in 1798, > Mary, daughter of Arthur Erwin, of Erwinna, Pa., who survived him a few years. He had one > son and three daughters. The son, John Cooper, was also a physician; one daughter married > the celebrated teacher Rev. John Vanderveer, of Easton; the other two married respectively > Theodore Paul, of Belvidere, N. J., and Judge Randolph, of this State. In 1799, Gov. > Mifflin, of Pennsylvania, appointed him a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he > held for more than forty years. In 1829 the University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him > the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine, — a distinction so rare and carefully conferred by > that institution as to indicate the distinction he had acquired as a medical man. The book gives no surname for "Judge Randolph" beyond that, and no given names for the daughters. Recorded as found.

🎯🎯 the second passage p552 he came from long hills

BOOK p. 552, verbatim (chapter on Phillipsburg, section "Early Physicians"):

The first resident physician at Phillipsburg of whom anything definite can be asserted appears > to have been Dr. John Cooper, who in 1791 came hither from Long Hills, in Morris Co., N. J., > and made his home at the house of Capt. Henry Bidleman, in the locality now known as Green's > Bridge. After a four years' residence and practice there he moved to Easton, where he > practiced over fifty years. When Dr. Cooper left, the place looked to Easton for medical > attention, and for nearly fifty years could offer no inducements sufficiently strong to secure > a resident practitioner… The same page's footnote ties the three passages together, and it is why they are all one entry: * For a list of the physicians of Phillipsburg down to the present time see page 504; also > chapter on the Medical Profession in the general history of Warren County, for biographical > notices of most of those named. ⇒ book p. 504 is the roster already recorded at [I.207] ("John Cooper, 1791-95; went to Easton"), confirmed by rendering PDF p. 707, whose printed folio reads 504. Spelling as found: "Long Hill" (singular) on p. 513, "Long Hills" (plural) on p. 552. The town is set "Phillipsburg" throughout, with two l's.

🎯🎯 greenwich and phillipsburg are not in conflict

Added 2026-09-12 — the Wickes/Snell disagreement dissolves on the township history, all read off the page at 3×. Wickes (1879) book p. 217 ([I.181], re-read off PDF p. 223): "In 1791, proposing to leave the State, the Society granted him honorable credentials. Subsequent to this he removed to Greenwich, Warren County, where he remained about a year, and then removed to Easton, Pennsylvania, in November, 1794." Snell 1881 book p. 475 (PDF p. 670): "The townships or civil divisions of Warren County at the time of its organization were Greenwich, Hardwick, Independence, Knowlton, Mansfield, Oxford, and Pahaquarry. … Phillipsburg in 1851, Lopatcong in 1862 …" Snell 1881 book p. 682 (PDF p. 955): "The township now known as Lopatcong was in 1851 erected from the townships of Greenwich and Harmony, and called the township of Phillipsburg, from the village of that name." Snell 1881 book p. 747 (Addenda, GREENWICH TOWNSHIP, PDF p. 1072), of c. 1812–14: "At this time Greenwich township included what is now Lopatcong township and Phillipsburg, the division being made in 1857." ⇒ In 1791–94 the village of Phillipsburg lay inside Greenwich township. Wickes names the township, Snell the village. Neither need be wrong — and the earlier theory that Wickes misread a sentence is doubly unnecessary. "Warren County" is anachronistic in both — Warren was erected from Sussex in 1824 ([A.126]); in 1791 this was Sussex. Two genuine differences remain between the books and are recorded, not reconciled: Wickes says "about a year" there, Snell "a four years' residence"; Wickes says "one son and four daughters", Snell "one son and three daughters" ([B.58] records five children, one of whom died an infant).

🏠 a lease and a farm in 1814

Snell 1881 book p. 748 (Addenda, the School District No. 6 sketch "condensed from an article written by E. F. Cline", PDF p. 1073), read at 3×:

We have the original lease for the first lot on the site of the present building, given by Dr. > John Cooper, and made out to John Sharps and Lefferd Haughawout, in behalf of the trustees of > the school. The lease is dated Feb. 15, 1814 … This district is more generally known by the > name of Straw School … The origin of the present name, Still Valley, is not known. > > A frame building was erected in 1814, school being kept in a log house a few rods farther south, > opposite the farm-house (then owned by the said Dr. Cooper), until it was completed. This farm > is now owned by Mr. H. Metler. The district is in Greenwich township near Green's Bridge — the same locality where [I.207a] p. 552 places his 1791 boarding-house. The book does not say this is the same Dr. John Cooper; in 1814 John Cooper Sr was twenty years settled at Easton, across the river. The identification is argued on John Cooper Sr as probable.

⚠️ what this does and does not settle

This entry records the text. The identification with John Cooper Sr Dr. John Cooper Sr. is argued and graded THERE, not here — but the grounds are no longer circumstantial. The sketch states a birth date, a birthplace, both parents, a maternal grandfather, a wife with her father and his town, a child-count, and a death-town, and John Cooper Sr already holds an autograph-tier family Bible ([B.58]) giving the same birth date and the same marriage. AND IT OVERTURNS A HYPOTHESIS [I.207] RAISED THE SAME DAY. [I.207] wondered whether the catalog's Greenwich-vs-Phillipsburg conflict (from [I.180]/Wickes) arose because the roster sentence mentions Greenwich township in the clause about who covered Phillipsburg after Cooper left. That reading can now be dropped as unnecessary: the book states his station twice more, in running prose, and says Phillipsburg both times. This does not refute Wickes — it removes one speculative explanation for the disagreement, nothing more. The test is still to read Wickes directly. → John Cooper Sr. A genuine internal disagreement remains, inside this one book: the roster on p. 504 says 1791-95; the sketch on p. 514 says he removed in November, 1794; the p. 552 narrative says "a four years' residence" from 1791, which points to 1795. All three are recorded; none is preferred. The November 1794 figure agrees with [G.94]'s "from 1794 practiced in Easton", which is worth knowing but is not a reason to discard the other two.