PETER COOPER
Let our schools teach the nobility of labor and the beauty of human service, but the superstitions of ages past—never!
PETER COOPER
Peter Cooper was born in New York City in the year Seventeen Hundred Ninety-one. He lived to be ninety-two years old, passing out in Eighteen Hundred Eighty-three.
He was, successively, laborer, clerk, mechanic, inventor, manufacturer, financier, teacher, philanthropist and philosopher.