James Cooper
From Kook Science
| James Cooper | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 July 1846 Westmoreland, Pennsylvania |
| Died | 24 December 1928 (82) Bellefontaine, Logan, Ohio |
| Occupation(s) | Physician |
| Known for | Psychometry claims, spirit art |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Juergens (m. 1845); Cordelia White Moses (m. 1857) |
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.[1]
Selected Bibliography
- Nason, Leonard Herbert; Cooper, James (1880), History of the Prehistoric Ages: Written by the Ancient Historic Band of Spirits, Chicago, Ill.: C. E. Southard, Printer, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000476703
References
- ↑ Edmonds, John Worth, ed. (1860), "Letter from James Cooper, M.D., Bellefontaine, Logan county, Ohio, April 5th, 1859", Spiritual Tracts, No. 10: Letters to the 'New York Tribune,' on Spiritualism, New York, p. 101-103, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Letters_to_the_New_York_Tribune_on_Spiri/qB88hd0QnzcC?pg=PA101