Bob, Here are the "Cooper references in Scott's book: They had to do with Columbia 1817-1822. The first took place after the victory of the Nullification advocates to the Legislature. "From Coleman's (a theatre where a celebration was held) the crowd marched with military music to greet some of the leading Nullifiers, calling first on Col. James Gregg, who went with us to the college where old Dr. Cooper made a short speech, and then to Col. J.J. Chappell's, on the corner now occupied by the Presbyterian printing office." The second reference was in the chapter detailing the residences of Columbia at that time: "Dr. James Davis' residence was on the Northwest corner of Plain and Sumter streets....Once it was said old Dr. Cooper rode his little white pony to Dr. Davis', where he was very intimate, soon after its tail had been closely shaved by some of the students,and being asked what ailed the pony's tail, replied "That is the fashion", which being heard by Dr. Davis' coachmen, he resolved to follow the fashion, and forthwith shaved the tails of his master's carriage horses." The third reference is from a chapter which includes "remarkable Negroes": Old Sancho Cooper, who for many years belonged to Dr. Thomas Cooper. President of the College, who was generally regarded as an infidel,though he professed to be a Unitarian, whose remains, I heard were refused burial in a Prebyterian churchyard. Sancho was a highly respected member of the Methodist Church and long officiated as a preacher to the colored people. His son, Sancho, who is still living (this was 1884) , and who waited on me through a protracted sickness in 1876,'77, and '78 came from Africa when quite a child, and he tells some interesting anecdotes of Dr. Cooper's indulgence to himself and to his own children, often in spite of the wishes and remonstrances of Mrs. Cooper. He says the Doctor, for 2 or 3 months before his death, had old Sancho to pray with him and for him every night and morning." Blanche