Augusta Cooper
Bristol
BRISTOL, Mrs. Augusta Cooper,
poet and lecturer, born in Croydon, N. H., 17th April, ?1835. Her
maiden name was Cooper, and she was the youngest of a family of
ten children. She was a precocious child, and her poetical taste
showed itself in her early infancy. Her first verses were written
at the age of eight, and she had poems published when only
fifteen. She was forward in mathematics and showed in her early
life an aptitude for logical and philosophical reasoning. The
greater part of her education was acquired in a public school, but
she was also a student in Canaan Union Academy and Kimball Union
Academy. She began teaching at fifteen and was thus employed
summer and winter for seven years. At twenty-two years of age she
was married to G. H. Kimball, from whom she was divorced five
years later. In 1866 she was married to Louis Bristol, a lawyer of
New Haven, Conn., and they removed to southern Illinois. In 1869
she published a volume of poems, and in that year she gave her
first public lecture, which circumstance seems to have changed the
course of her intellectual career. In 1872 she moved to Vineland,
N. J., her present residence, from which date she has been called
more before the public as a platform speaker. For four years she
was president of the Ladies' Social Science Class in Vineland, N.
J., giving lessons from Spencer and Carey every month. In the
winter of 188o she gave a course of lectures before the New York
Positivist Society on "The Evolution of Character," followed by
another course under the auspices of the Woman's Social Science
Club of that city. In the following June she was sent by friends
in New York to study the equitable association of labor and
capital at the Familistere, in Guise, in France, founded by M.
Godin. She was also commissioned to represent the New York
Positivist Society in an international convention of liberal
thinkers in Brussels in September. Remaining in the Familistere
for three months and giving a lecture on the "Scientific Basis of
Morality" before the Brussels convention, she returned home and
published the "Rules and Statutes of the association in Guise. In
1881 she was chosen State lecturer of the Patrons of Husbandry in
New Jersey, and in the autumn of the following year was employed
on a national lecture bureau of that order.
Since her husband's death, which occurred in
December, 1882, Mrs. Bristol has appeared but seldom on the public
platform. She is occupied with the care of an estate and in
directing the educational interests of her youngest daughter. Some
of her philosophic and scientific lectures have been translated
and published in foreign countries.
("American Women
Fifteen Hundred Biographies" Vol 1 Publ. 1897 Transcribed by Marla
Snow)
Nedom L. Angier
Angier, Nedom L., educator, physician, statesman,
was born Nov. 10,
1814, in Acworth,
N.H. In 1834-43 he taught school in Georgia. In 1843 he began the
practice of medicine in Randolph County; and in 1847 moved to
Atlanta, Ga. In
1867 he was a member of the Georgia state constitutional convention;
and in 1868-72 was state treasurer of Georgia. In 1876-78 he was
mayor of Atlanta; and took an active part in
locating the state capitol in that city. He died Feb. 3, 1892, in
Atlanta, Ga.
[Herringshaw's National Library
of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies
of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United
States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
