I. Childhood Souvenirs and Mementos

Contains scrapbook hand-made and given to Lane Cooper. Contents are arranged randomly. Small children's story books and poem books; membership cards; information on family members, including Dr. E. S. Cooper from the Eye, Ear and Orthopedic Infirmary and Cooper Medical College, the legacy of Dr. E. S. Cooper; information and obituary of Ruth Cooper, Lane's aunt; biographical information and pictures of Elijah and Elizabeth Cooper (deceased 1710); other obituary notices, including Theodore Woolsey Cooper (July 10, 1879), Elizabeth Cooper (April 4, 1877), and Levi Cooper, a prominent surgeon on Pacific Coast (February 18, 1902); newspaper clipping from the Fredonian, New Brunswick, August 7, 1883, detailing a visit to Jacob Cooper by a committee consisting of Governor Blair, President James Angell (the late minister to China), the Honorable James B. Joy and Rev. Dr. Duffield from the University of Michigan. The article states Dr. Cooper had been elected Professor of Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Michigan. The potential loss to Rutgers College of this esteemed Professor is discussed. Lane also preserved an article by his father entitled: How tospend a $100,000,000, which was in response to Mr. Carnegie. There is also a picture of Jacob Cooper.