Charles D. Cooper

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles DeKay Cooper was an American physician, lawyer and Democratic-Republican politician. He was the son of Dr. Ananias Cooper and Elizabeth DeKay Cooper. He studied medicine with Dr. Crosby in New York City and became a physician, like his father. By 1791, Cooper had settled in Albany. In 1792 he began to practice medicine. He married Margaret Vernor, the adopted daughter of the future Lt. Gov. John Tayler. They had five children, among them Major-General John Tayler Cooper, and Reverend Charles DeKay Cooper, who married Cornelia Lansing Sutherland, a grand-daughter of Chancellor John Lansing, Jr.. In 1794, he was appointed Health Officer of the Port of Albany