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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_34712" /> ==
 
<p> 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. </p>
Thomas Cooper <ref name="term_34716" />
       
<p> 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. </p>
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_71449" /> ==
 
<p> A self-taught man, born in Leicester; bred a shoemaker; became a schoolmaster, a Methodist preacher, and then a journalist; converted to Chartism; was charged with sedition, and committed to prison for two years; wrote here "Purgatory of Suicides"; after liberation went about lecturing on politics and preaching scepticism; returning to his first faith, he lectured on the [[Christian]] evidences, and wrote an autobiography (1805-1892). </p>
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<ref name="term_34716"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/cooper,+thomas+(2) Thomas Cooper from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_34712"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/cooper,+thomas Thomas Cooper from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_71449"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/cooper,+thomas Thomas Cooper from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
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Thomas Cooper [1]

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.

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  1. ↑ Thomas Cooper from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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