Cooper, John (6)
Cooper, John (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, fifteen years in the itinerancy, was modest, blameless, subject to much dejection and sorrow, often in want, and died in great peace in 1789. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1789, page 33.
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Cooper, John (3)
an English Baptist minister, was born at Evesham, Worcestershire, in 1821. When he was about fourteen years of age he joined the Wesleyans, and subsequently became a local preacher, but when about twenty-two joined the Baptists. For two years he remained at home, devoting himself to theological studies, and preaching in the villages. In 1844 he entered Horton College, and in 1849 settled at Ross, in Herefordshire, where he remained about two years, and then removed to Newark-on-Trent, commencing his pastorate in that place in December 1851. He died February 28, 1853. See (Lond.) Baptist Handbook, 1854, page 46. (J.C.S.)
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Cooper, John (4)
a Scotch clergyman, studied at Edinburgh University; was licensed to preach in 1824; became assistant minister at Clackmainan, and afterwards at Arbroath; was appointed minister at Pittenweem in 1833; admitted in 1834, and died March 26, 1854, aged fifty-two years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:457.
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Cooper, John (5)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in England. He emigrated to Woodstock, Conn., in early manhood, for the purpose of engaging in a special branch of woollen manufacture; was there converted in 1842; began earnest Christian work at once; was licensed to preach in 1843, and admitted into the Providence Conference, wherein he labored with zeal and fidelity to the close of his life, October 18, 1878. Mr. Cooper possessed a clear and vigorous intellect, and a glowing Christian experience. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1879, page 79.
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Cooper, John (6)
an English Baptist minister, was called to preach at the age of twenty-four by the Church at Rattlesden, Suffolk, and at once employed in the chapels and villages around. The following year he was unanimously chosen to the pastorate of the Church at Wattisham, where he labored faithfully for more than forty-nine years, retiring in September 1879. For the last fifteen years of his life he was secretary of the Suffolk and Norfolk Association. He was also cosecretary with Samuel Collins (q.v.) of the Home Mission, and an able editor of the Gospel Herald. He died in February 22, 1880, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1882, page 300.