WILLIAM COOPER 



best to part with most of his collections and 

 library, which could not be well preserved 

 when not used. But the chief object of 

 country life — the health and well being of his 

 family — was gained. 



In 1853, his eldest son having graduated at 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and 

 his other children fast growing up, Mr. 

 Cooper sold his farm and removed to Ho- 

 boken, desiring again to enjoy the advan- 

 tages of city life, and also to remain in the 

 neighborhood in which he had lived so long 

 that it had become more homelike than the 

 changed and changing city of New York. 

 For several years he occupied the honorable 

 office of Associate Judge of the District 

 Court, attending the quarterly sessions, and, 

 though not a lawyer, giving universal satis- 

 faction. 



He was now again able to do something in 

 natural science, but as his former fields of 

 labor were filled by numerous workers, who 

 enjoyed, through societies or governments, 

 the aid of public funds such as no individual 

 could afford, he resolved to make a collection 



