The Story of Cooperstown

by Ralph Birdsall

FOOTNOTES:

[102] James Fenimore Cooper, by Mary E. Phillips, p. 262.

[103] In 1826 he applied to the legislature to change his name to James Cooper Fenimore, since there were no men of his mother's family to continue the name. The request was not granted, but the change was made to James Fenimore-Cooper. He soon dropped the hyphen.

[104] Now in the hall at Fynmere, the home built in Cooperstown by the novelist's grandson, James Fenimore Cooper of Albany.

[105] James Fenimore Cooper, by Thomas R. Lounsbury, American Men of Letters series, p. 80.

[106] Now at Fynmere.

[107] Now at Edgewater.

[108] Pages and Pictures, Susan Fenimore Cooper, p. 322.

[109] James Fenimore Cooper, W. B. Shubrick Clymer, p. 90.

[110] Livermore, p. 204.