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قراءة كتاب Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4
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Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4
The Riverside Biographical Series
NUMBER 4
PETER COOPER
BY
ROSSITER W. RAYMOND
The Riverside Biographical Series
| 1. | ANDREW JACKSON, by W. G. Brown. |
| 2. | JAMES B. EADS, by Louis How. |
| 3. | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by Paul E. More. |
| 4. | PETER COOPER, by R. W. Raymond. |
| 5. | THOMAS JEFFERSON, by H. C. Merwin. |
| 6. | WILLIAM PENN, by George Hodges. |
| 7. | GENERAL GRANT, by Walter Allen. |
| 8. | LEWIS AND CLARK, by William R. Lighton. |
| 9. | JOHN MARSHALL, by James B. Thayer. |
| 10. | ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by Chas. A. Conant. |
| 11. | WASHINGTON IRVING, by H. W. Boynton. |
| 12. | PAUL JONES, by Hutchins Hapgood. |
| 13. | STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, by W. G. Brown. |
| 14. | SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, by H. D. Sedgwick, Jr. |
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York
PETER COOPER
BY
ROSSITER W. RAYMOND
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| Preface | vii | |
| I. | Ancestry | 1 |
| II. | Boyhood and Youth | 10 |
| III. | Business Ventures | 16 |
| IV. | Inventions | 29 |
| V. | The Tom Thumb | 38 |
| VI. | Municipal Affairs | 52 |
| VII. | The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 64 |
| VIII. | National Politics | 96 |
| IX. | The End | 104 |
PREFACE
During the last decade of Peter Cooper's life, the writer of this biographical sketch enjoyed some degree of intimacy with him, as professional adviser and traveling companion, and also, incidentally, as consulting engineer of the firm of Cooper and Hewitt, and manager of a department in the Cooper Union. This circumstance, together with the preference kindly expressed by Mr. Cooper's family, doubtless influenced the selection of the writer for the honorable task of preparing this book,—a task which was welcome as a labor of love, though the execution of it has been hindered and impaired by the demands of other duties. The real difficulty has been to compress within the prescribed limits a story covering so many years and so many topics, yet not possessing those features of dramatic action or adventure which could be treated briefly, with picturesque effect.
Mr. Cooper's family has kindly furnished abundant material for this work, including, besides his own published utterances, the notes of the stenographer to whom Mr. Cooper, in the last years of his life, dictated his "reminiscences." The use which has been made of these will be evident to the reader.