Cooper, Thomas (2)
Cooper, Thomas
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Maidstone, Eng., in 1819; emigrated to America while young; was converted at Mount Vernon, Ohio, while a boy; studied with success at the Norwalk seminary under Dr. Thomson, and entered the itinerancy in 1842. As an agent of the Ohio Wesleyan University, a seamen’s missionary, and in the regular pastoral work, he was very able and useful, until his sudden death by cholera, July, 1849. Thomson, Biographical Sketches, p. 191.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Cooper, Thomas (2)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Staincross, near Wakefield, in 1760. At an early period in his life, his parents, who were members of the Established Church, were converted under Methodist preaching. In 1779, Thomas, after prolonged and severe struggles, was himself converted, and on the invitation of Wesley attended the Kingswood School for fifteen months. He travelled twenty-three circuits, and in 1821 settled in Liverpool, where he died after long and complicated affliction, October 1, 1832. “He was a man of sound sense, and of more than ordinary ministerial talent; so that his labors. were not only acceptable, but popular and useful.” He was a good historian and grammarian, somewhat taci-turn, and occasionally sarcastic. See Wesl. Meth. Mag. 1835, page 181; Minutes of the British Conferences, 1833; Wesleyan Takings, 1:331.