Thomas Cooper
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
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.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
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).
