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2 unusual facts about Peter Cooper


Cyrus West Field

During the Panic of 1857, Field's paper business suspended, and he was kept from going under by his neighbor in Gramercy Park, Peter Cooper.

Together with Peter Cooper, Abram Stevens Hewitt, Moses Taylor and Samuel F.B. Morse, in 1854 he laid a 400-mile telegraph line connecting St. John's, Newfoundland with Nova Scotia, where telegraph lines from the U.S. terminated.


Dr. Samuel MacKenzie Elliott House

It was one of 22 similar houses in the area designed and built as investments by Scottish born Samuel Mackenzie Elliott, an oculist and eye surgeon who boasted prominent clients like John Jacob Astor, Peter Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Horace Greeley.

United States Senate election in New York, 1879

The two Greenback assemblymen John Banfield (Chemung Co.) and George E. Williams (Oswego Co.) voted for 87-year old Peter Cooper, a New York City inventor, industrialist and philanthropist who had run for U.S. President in 1876 on the Greenback ticket.


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Aylesbury Vale Council election, 2011

Both UKIP and the Labour party won 2 seats, while independent Peter Cooper retained his seat in Wingrave.