Dudley H. Cooper papers
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, certificates, legal papers, business papers, newspaper clippings, personal letters and published material.
Correspondence, certificates, legal papers, business papers, newspaper clippings, personal letters and published material.
Dates
- Creation: 1836-1877
Creator
- Cooper, Dudley H. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Access note
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Dudley H. Cooper must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Conditions Governing Use note
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Dudley H. Cooper papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Captain of the Missouri Mounted Volunteers, First Regiment, Mexican War, 1846.
Biographical History
Dudley H. Cooper (1821-1877) was Captain of the Missouri Mounted Volunteers, First Regiment, Mexican War, 1846.
Dudley H. Cooper, son of Benjamin Cooper, was born in 1821 in MIssouri. He was a captain of the Missouri Mounted Volunteers, First Regiment, from Howard County, Missouri who served in the Mexican War. Some of the letters in the collection refer to the camps, marches, condition of the volunteer army, anticipated battles and the prospects of a treaty alliance with the Navaho Indians. There is also reference to the popular military leaders Col. Alexander Doniphan and Maj. William Gilpin. Col. John T. Hughes complimented Captain Cooper for his participation in the Mexican War and for furnishing information on the war (William Elsey Connelley, Doniphan's Expedition: Conquest of New Mexico and California [Topeka, Kansas, 1907] p. 11, 556).
Cooper later resided in Saline County, Missouri. He was an attorney, affluent businessman, real estate agent, and active in the social and political activities of the state.
Extent
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Correspondence, certificates, legal papers, business papers, newspaper clippings, personal letters and published material.
Arrangement note
Arranged in 7 series: 1. Dudley H. Cooper writings, 1970-1849; 2. Dudley H. Cooper correspondence, 1842-1873; 3. Dudley H. Cooper certificates, 1847-1864; 4. Dudley H. Cooper patent medicine pamphlets and advertisements; 5. Dudley H. Cooper papers, 1836-1876; 6. Dudley H. Cooper printed political tracts, advertisements, and pamphlets; and 7. Dudley H. Cooper personal letters, 1844-1876.
Other Finding Aids note
A more detailed finding aid is available in print in the repository.
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSSSC302.xml
Custodial History
Purchased from Fred A. Rosenstock, 1977.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased; Fred A. Rosenstock; 1977.
Appraisal
19th Century Mormon and Western Manuscripts.
Appraisal note
Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (19th & 20th Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts Collecting Policy, 2010).
General
Unpublished list located with collection.
Processing Information note
Processed; 1974.
Subject
- Cooper, Benjamin (Person)
- Hughes, John Taylor, 1817-1862 (Person)
- Doniphan, Alexander William (Person)
- Gilpin, William, 1813-1894 (Person)
- United States. Army. Missouri Infantry Regiment, 1st (1846-1847) (Organization)
- Title
- Register of the Dudley H. Cooper papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed under the direction of the Curator of 19th and 20th Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts
- Date
- 1974
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States