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Col. Wade Hampton Cooper
The News and Courier July 22, 1960
Col. Wade Hampton Cooper of Washington, D.C. died July 21, 1960.
Col. Cooper, a son of the late Noah Bryant Cooper and Lucinda Jenerette
Cooper, was born in Cool Springs section of Horry County Dec. 5, 1874. In
his early childhood his family moved to Mullins.
Upon him were conferred the degrees of LL.M; Litt. D. and LL.D.
His early adult life was passed in Nashville, Tenn., where he practiced
law. Here he married Miss Carolyn Binkley who died in 1926. Their only
children, two sons, Joshua W. Cooper and Bryant S. Cooper, predeceased
their father.
Surviving are a grandson, *William P. Cooper, Fanwood, NJ, two brothers,
Lawrence J. Cooper, Waycross, GA, and John P. Cooper, Mullins; three
sisters, Mrs. O.F. Thornton and Mrs. J.R. Williams, both of Mullins, and
Mrs. A.V. Bethea, Dillon, and many nieces and nephews. Col. Cooper, a
retired banker, lawyer, and philanthropist, passed his early business and
professional life in Nashville, later moving to Washington. At one time
he was president of three of the most prominent banks in Washington. For
many years he was vice president and trustee of Lincoln Memorial
University in Cumberland, Tenn. He contributed heavily to Peabody
College, Vanderbilt University, to hundreds of young people, both white
and Negro, for college education, and to religious organizations. He
travelled extensively. He was a member of Foundry Methodist Church in
Washington, the Huguenot Society, of SC, the Sons of the American
Revolution, The Columbia Historical Society of Washington, The New York
Academy of Political Science, the American Society of International Law,
the National Press Club, the trustees of American University at
Washington, the trustees of the Methodist Home for Children, and the
University Club of Washington, where he had lived since his wife's death.
*Son of Joshua W. Cooper or Bryant S. Cooper?