Cooper, J. F.: born at Burlington, [2]; removed to Cooperstown, [2]; early education, [6]; at Albany, [6]; at Yale College, [7]; dismissed from college, [8]; serves before the mast, [9], [10]; enters navy as midshipman, [11]; his service, [11]; marries, [12]; resigns position in the navy, [14]; residences from 1811 to 1822, [14], [15]; his children, [15]; begins literary life, [16]; moves into New York city, [63]; founds the Bread and Cheese club, [63]; has family name changed to Fenimore-Cooper, [3]; is given a public dinner, [127]; sails for Europe, [67]; made consul at Lyons, [67]; residences in France, England, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, [67], [68]; cordial reception in Paris, [68], [69]; wide extent of his reputation, [56-58], [77]; returns to America, [117]; refuses a public dinner, [128]; resides in New York city, [117]; buys his father's house in Cooperstown and makes it his permanent home, [117]; has a controversy with citizens of Cooperstown, [142-148]; brings a number of newspaper libel suits, [180-197]; engages unsuccessfully in business operations, [261]; his farm, [263], [264]; becomes a communicant in the Episcopal Church, [266]; his death, [267]; funeral oration over, delivered by Bryant, [268]; happiness of his home life, [13], [14], [233], [234], [285]; wide circulation of his works, [37], [56], [76], [270]; pecuniary profits from their sale, [64-66], [261-263]; his success as a lawyer, [182], [189], [216-218], [220]; his sensitiveness to criticism, [41-44], [286]; defects of his literary art, [50], [51]; failure in characterization, [152], [155], [277], [278]; female characters, [26-28], [153], [154], [278-281]; success in characters from low life, [53-55], [72], [73], [152], [283]; fondness for commonplace, [84], [242], [276]; prolixity of his introductions, [75], [134], [242], [276]; improbability and carelessness in the details of his stories, [51], [53], [276], [277]; carelessness in the development of the plot, [28], [271], [272], [275], [276]; criticism on language and carelessness in use of it, [130], [272-275]; his humor, [119], [239], [240]; his fondness for natural scenery, and success in description, [8], [69], [134], [168], [169], [240], [241], [264], [282-284]; his political opinions, [82-84], [108], [109]; his imperiousness of manner, [79], [80], [286]; his pugnacity, [24], [75], [80], [81], [146], [147], [285]; his generosity, [81], [82]; his patriotism, [49], [85], [86], [94], [110], [115], [128], [231], [237], [238], [243]; depth and narrowness of religious feeling, [22-26], [75], [243], [256], [258-261], [266]; high sense of honor, [82], [286]; love of truth, [202], [203], [222], [232], [287], [288].
Cooper, Richard, [182], [185], [220].
Cooper, Susan Fenimore, [15].
Cooper, William, Cooper's father, [2], [3], [9], [142-145], [188], [192].
Cooperstown, situation of, [1], [3], [4]; when founded, [2]; original population of, [5]; Cooper's residences in, [2], [3], [14], [117]; his controversy with citizens of, [142-148]; farm near, [263], [264]; his death at, [266], [267]; the Chronicles of, [293].
"Cooperstown Freeman's Journal," democratic newspaper, [143], [144]; Cooper's letters to, [147], [148], [294].
Copyright, international, Cooper's feelings in regard to, [166]; pecuniary loss sustained by the lack of one, [261].