Cooper, Samuel (3)
Cooper, Samuel
D.D., a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, March 28, 1725. He graduated at Harvard in 1743, and was chosen collegiate pastor with Dr. Colman in the Brattle-street Church, Dec. 31,1744. He was ordained pastor May 21, 1746, and died Dec. 23,1783. He was made D.D. by the University of Edinburgh in 1767. Dr. Cooper published a few occasional sermons, and wrote contributions for the Boston Gazette and Independent Ledger. He was elected president of Harvard in 1774, but did not accept. Sprague, Annals, 1:440.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Cooper, Samuel (3)
an English Baptist minister, was born in 1766, baptized December 16, 1787, and united with the First Church in Birmingham. He was ordained January 18, 1807, and first became pastor at Romsey, Hampshire, having for a few years served the Church in Wallingford as an assistant. Subsequently he settled at Cholsey, where he died, March 7, 1839. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1839, page 24. (J.C.S.)