Descendants of James Fenimore Cooper

compiled by Hugh C. MacDougall

Placed on line August 2001

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Sources: Wayne Wright, The Cooper Genealogy (Cooperstown: New York State Historical Association, 1983); Cooper Family Bible; Cooper Family Plot, Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Cooperstown.

Abbreviation: + = had issue; [BCC] = buried in Cooper Family Plot, Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Cooperstown; [MCC] = memorial marker in Cooper Family Plot

NOTE: Information is provided only down to the oldest generation now living. So far as is known, the only living descendants of James Fenimore Cooper are descendants of 1.7.2.2 Henry Sage Fenimore Cooper (1895-1984).

• +1. James Fenimore Cooper (b. Burlington, NJ, Sept. 15, 1789-d. Cooperstown, NY, Sept. 14, 1851) [BCC], married (Jan. 1, 1811, Mamaroneck, NY) Susan Augusta DeLancey (b. Mamaroneck, NY, Jan. 28, 1792-d.Cooperstown, NY, Jan. 20, 1852) [BCC]
•   1.1 Elizabeth Cooper ( b Mamaroneck, NY, Sept. 27, 1811 - d. July 13, 1813, Cooperstown, NY) [BCC]
•   1.2 Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (b. Mamaroneck, NY, Apr. 17, 1813 - d. New York, NY, Dec. 31, 1894) [BCC]
• +1.3 Caroline Martha Cooper {Cally}(b. Jan. 26, 1815, Cooperstown, NY - d. Jan. 10, 1892, Cooperstown, NY) [buried Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown], married (Feb. 8, 1849, Cooperstown, NY) Henry Frederick Phinney (b. Dec. 15, 1816 - d. Oct. 28, 1875)
•   1.3.1 Henry Phinney (b. Feb. 20, 1850, Cooperstown - d. Sept. 18, 1851, Cooperstown)
• +1.3.2. Susan Cooper Phinney (b. Mar. 5, 1852, Buffalo, NY - d. 1881) married (Oct. 21, 1874, Cooperstown, NY) Jacob Sutherland Irving (b. ca. 1850 - d. Apr. 1, 1881)
•   1.3.2.1 Henry Sutherland Irving (b. Aug. 2, 1875 - d. Oct. 27, 1933, Beverly Hills, CA) married Helene Desmond Irving. Apparently no issue.
•   1.3.3 Frederick Noyes Phinney (b. Dec. 12, 1854, Cooperstown, NY - d. Dec. 14, 1892. South Cairo, NY)
•   1.3.4 Charles John Phinney (b. Dec. 24, 1856, Irvington, NY - d. ???)
•   1.4 Anne Charlotte Fenimore Cooper (b. May 14, 1817, Cooperstown, NY - d. Mar. 17, 1885, Cooperstown, NY)
• +1.5 Maria Frances Fenimore Cooper {Fanny}(b. June 15, 1819, Scarsdale, NY - d. Oct. 26, 1898, Cooperstown, NY) [BCC], married (Dec. 10, 1850, Cooperstown, NY) Richard Cooper (b. Dec. 8, 1808, Cooperstown, NY-d. Dec. 16, 1862, New York, NY) [BCC]
•   1.5.1 Susan Augusta Cooper (b. Dec. 1, 1851, Cooperstown, NY - d. Apr. 2, 1915) [BCC]
•   1.5.2 James Fenimore Cooper (b. June 24, 1853 - d. Mar. 7, 1866) [BCC]
•   1.5.3 Alfred Cooper (b. Apr. 20, 1855 - d. Feb. 14, 1859) [BCC]
•   1.5.4 Charles Paul Cooper (b. Apr. 14, 1860 - d. Oct. 8, 1862) [BCC]
•   1.6 Fenimore Cooper (b. Oct. 23, 1821, Scarsdale, NY - d. Aug. 5, 1823, New York, NY) [buried St. Marks Church, Bowery]
• +1.7 Paul Fenimore Cooper (b. Feb. 3, 1824, New York, NY - d. Apr. 21, 1895, Albany, NY) [BCC] married (June 28, 1855, Cooperstown, NY) Mary Fuller Barrows (b. Feb. 18, 1827 - d. May 14, 1897, Albany, NY) [BCC]
•   1.7.1 Susan DeLancey Fenimore Cooper (b. Aug. 6, 1856 - d. Feb. 24, 1940) [BCC]
• +1.7.2 James Fenimore Cooper (b. June 15, 1858 - d. May 3, 1938) [BCC], married (June 2, 1891, Hillsdale (Albany), NY) Susan Linn Sage (b. Oct. 1, 1866, Brooklyn, NY - d. Jan. 15, 1933)
•   1.7.2.1 James Fenimore Cooper (b. Mar. 10, 1892, Albany, NY - d. Feb. 17, 1918, Ft. Dix, NJ) [BCC]
• +1.7.2.2 Henry Sage Fenimore Cooper (b. Mar. 9, 1895, Albany, NY - d. September 10, 1984, Cooperstown) [BCC], married (Oct. 6, 1917, Cooperstown, NY) Katherine Lemoine Guy (b. Feb. 6, 1895, St. Louis, MO - d. Jan. 8, 1988, Cooperstown, NY) [BCC]
  • +1.7.2.1.1 Katherine Lemoine Fenimore Cooper {Mrs. William L. Cary}, married and has issue
  • +1.7.2.1.2 Susan Fenimore Cooper {Mrs. Frederick P. Weil}, married and has issue
  • +1.7.2.1.3 James Fenimore Cooper, married and has issue
  • +1.7.2.1.4 Henry Spotswood Fenimore Cooper {Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.}, married and has issue.
•   1.7.2.3 Linn Fenimore Cooper (b. May 5, 1899, Albany, NY - d. Nov. 13, 1959, Sibu, Sarawak) [bur. Kanowit, Sarawak] [MCC]
• +1.7.2.4 Paul Fenimore Cooper (b. May 5, 1899, Albany, NY - d. Jan. 18, 1970, Cooperstown, NY) [BCC], married (May 23, 1925) Marion Erskine (b. August 4, 1904 - d. November 25, 1996) [BCC]
•   1.7.2.4.1 Paul Fenimore Cooper {Nicky} (b. Mar. 3, 1930 - d. Dec. 25, 1988, Australia) [BCC]
•   1.7.2.5 [De Lancey] Fenimore Cooper (b. Sept. 28, 1900 - d. Oct. 4, 1900) [BCC]
•   1.7.3 Katherine Fuller Fenimore Cooper (b. Mar. 30, 1860 - d. June 4, 1925) [BCC]
•   1.7.4 Mary Barrows Fenimore Cooper (b. Aug. 8, 1861 - d. Dec. 19, 1933) [BCC]

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