Cooper, William (4)
Cooper, William
a Congregational minister was a native of Boston, born in 1694, and graduated at Harvard 1712. He commenced preaching in 1715, and was ordained collegiate pastor of the Brattle-street Church, May 23, 1716. He was elected president of Harvard in 1737, but declined the honor. He died Dec. 12, 1743. Mr. Cooper published A Tract defending Inoculation for the Small-pox (1721); The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life vindicated in four Sermons (1740); and several occasional discourses. Sprague, Annals, 1:288.
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Cooper, William (1)
a Scotch clergyman, was tutor to Alexander, lord Garliss; called to the living at Mochrum in 1701, and died June 1, 1747. See Fastis Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:740.
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Cooper, William (3)
an English Congregational minister, was born in Warwickshire, August 28, 1776. He delivered his first sermon February 1, 1795, and a few months later became the most popular preacher of his day. Multitudes pressed to hear him at Spa Fields and Tottenham-Court-Road chapels, as well as in the Tabernacle. He discoursed to the Jews in Zion Chapel, London, August 28, 1796, on his twentieth birthday. The throng was so great that thousands could not gain entrance, and while he was speaking inside four other ministers preached outside. He undertook a tour through various parts of Ulster, Ireland, in the summer of 1799, addressing thousands, and also made a second tour the following summer. He was then called to the pastorate of the Plunket Street Congregational Church, Dublin, and entered upon his labors in April, 1802, where he continued till March, 1828, when he was forced to retire from public effort. He died January 22, 1848. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1848, page 217.
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Cooper, William (4)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1814. He experienced religion in 1836; was licensed to preach in 1837, and in 1840 entered the Pittsburgh Conference, wherein he labored faithfully until the close of 1867. The last year of his life was spent in the service of the Western Seamen’s Friend Society, as an agent. He died in 1868 or 1869. Mr. Cooper was of a sober, retiring disposition, a faithful minister, an excellent pastor, and an exemplary Christian. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1869, page 45.