Cope, Edward

Cope, Edward a Presbyterian minister, was born at Lisbon, N.Y., May 25, 1806. He joined the Church in 1827, studied two years (1833 and 1834) at Centre College, one year in the Western Theological Seminary; graduated from the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1836; was ordained as a missionary to India, and, after a service of ten years, returned on account of ill-health; preached at Norwich, N.Y., and the vicinity, from 1854, and died at Gilbertsville, May 10, 1884. See Presbyterianism in Central N.Y. page 503; Genesis Cat. of Auburn Theol. Sem. 1883, pages 46, 289. (W.P.S.)