Henry Coppee, USMA 1845

Born:     October 13, 1821, Savannah, Georgia.

Died:     March 21, 1895 at Lehigh.

• Spent two years at Yale in the class of 1839.
• Studied civil engineering.
• Employed in the construction of the Georgia Central Railroad, 1837-1840.
• Graduated from West Point, 1845.
• Principal Assistant Professor of geography, history, and ethics, USMA, January 14, 1850 to June 30, 1855.

Publications:

• Elements of Logic, Philadelphia, 1855.
• General Thomas, 1893.

Obituaries:

1. AR 95.
2. DAB.

References:

1. Rosengarten, J. G., "Obituary Notice of Henry Coppee, LL. D.," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 34, No. 149 (Dec., 1895), pp. 357-361