New York History, Autumn 1994 Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 (Pulitzer Prize winner for History) James M. Banner, Jr., "Cooper, William", from American National Biography, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2000 External links 1754 births 1809 deaths Politicians from Philadelphia People of colonial Pennsylvania American people of English descent American Quakers Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) New York (state) state court judges American city founders People from Cooperstown, New York