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BOONVILLE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., on the right See also:bank of the Missouri See also:river, about 210 M. W. by N..of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis. Pop. (189o) 4141; (1900) 4377, including rift negroes; (1910) 4252. It is served by the Missouri Pacific, and the Missouri, See also:Kansas & See also:Texas See also:railways. The city lies along a See also:bluff about too ft. above the river. It is the seat of the Missouri training school for boys (1889), and of the Kemper military school (1844). Among its manufactures are earthen-See also:ware, See also:tobacco, See also:vinegar, See also:flour, See also:farm-See also:gates (See also:iron), See also:sash and doors, See also:marble and See also:granite monuments, carriages and bricks. Iron, See also:zinc and See also:lead are found in the vicinity, and some See also:coal is See also:mined. Boonville, named in See also:honour of See also:Daniel See also:Boone, was settled in 181o, was laid out in 1817, incorporated as a See also:village in 1839, and chartered as a city of the third class in 1896. Here on the 17th of See also:June 1861, See also:Captain (See also:Major-See also:General) Nathaniel See also:Lyon, commanding about 2000 See also:Union troops, defeated a slightly larger, but undisciplined Confederate force under Brigadier-General See also:John S. Marmaduke. See also:David See also:Barton (d. 1837), one of the first two See also:United States senators from Missouri, was buried here.
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