Cooper, John (6)

an English Baptist minister, was called to preach at the age of twenty-four by the Church at Rattlesden, Suffolk, and at once employed in the chapels and villages around. The following year he was unanimously chosen to the pastorate of the Church at Wattisham, where he labored faithfully for more than forty-nine years, retiring in September 1879. For the last fifteen years of his life he was secretary of the Suffolk and Norfolk Association. He was also cosecretary with Samuel Collins (q.v.) of the Home Mission, and an able editor of the Gospel Herald. He died in February 22, 1880, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1882, page 300.