James Cooper

James Cooper (August 3, 1821 - June 18, 1898) was an American physician and psychometrist. Among Cooper's Spiritualist credentials were his contacts with the Ancient Band, a collective of spirits who were said to represent peoples living from the late Paleolithic Age onward, inspiring a series of clairvoyant "spirit pictures" executed by Wella P. and L. "Pet" Anderson, as well as a book, History of the Prehistoric Ages (Chicago, 1880), which was channelled by Leonard Herbert Nason and "translated" by Cooper. He also claimed that his step-daughter, Charlotte A. (Moses) Bogue, was a medium who, he said, channelled spirits, including one that claimed to be Robert Burns (1759-1796), and that she would speak in various tongues of which she was otherwise ignorant, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, Gaelic, an unknown British Celtic proto-Welsh language, and Seminole language.