David Allen COOPER ²

   Other names for David were Abraham David, Abram and David Abraham COOPER.

  General Notes:

David was "The New York Tailor."

The Hebrew side of his tombstone gives David's father as "Borukh Ha-Levi," Borukh the Levite. ^{10 11}

  Research Notes:

The census of 1930 has David's place of birth as Austria.

David's immigration papers have him as 12 in September of 1894. ^{1 8}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, Jul-Aug 1894, London. ⁸

• Embarkation, Aug 29, 1894, Liverpool, England. ⁸

• Immigration, Sep 11, 1894, Philadelphia. ^{3 7} "Abram" arrived with his mother and two sisters.

• Residence, Sep 1894, 64 Pleasant St., Hartford, Conn. ^{8 12}

• Business/Residence, 1899, 168 Front St., Hartford, Conn. ¹³ David was a peddler.

• Naturalization, 1900. ³

• Business/Residence, 1901, 27 Morgan, Hartford, Conn. ¹⁴ David was a bookseller along with his father at Bernard Cooper & Son.

• Business/Residence, 1902, 27 Morgan, Hartford, Conn. ¹⁵ Bernard Cooper & Son.

• Business/Residence, 1903, 15 Morgan St., Hartford, Conn. ¹⁶ David was a tailor.

• Business/Residence, 1904, 15 Morgan St., Hartford, Conn. ¹⁷ David was a tailor.

• Business/Residence, 1905, 15 Morgan St., Hartford, Conn. David was a tailor.

• Business/Residence, 1906, 267 Market, Hartford, Conn. ¹⁸ David was a tailor.

• Residence, Apr 15, 1910, 892 Steinway Ave., Queens, NY. ⁷ ED #1174, sheet 1A.

• Business, Apr 15, 1910, New York. ⁷ "Abraham" owned a tailor shop.

• Draft Registration, Sep 12, 1918, 319 Flushing Ave., Long Island City, Queens, NY. ⁹ David was a self-employed tailor.

• Residence, Jan 8, 1920, 319 Astoria Ave., Long Island City, NY. ^{3 19} This was the same house in which John Geffen lived.

• Business, Jan 8, 1920, Long Island City, NY. ³ David owned a tailor shop.

• Residence, Nov 12, 1928, 1214 Astoria Ave., Long Island, NY. ²⁰ David was the informant on Barnet Cooper's death certificate.

• Residence, Apr 15, 1930, 128 Astoria Ave., New York, NY. ¹ ED #44, sheet 9A, Queens, NY.

• Business, Apr 15, 1930, New York. ¹ David was a tailor in a tailor shop.

David married Ida in 1905.¹ (Ida was born in 1884 in Russia ³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage. ⁷ The census of April, 1910, has David and Ida married for 6 years.