Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Gilbert COPE
COPE, Gilbert, historian and genealogist, was born in East Bradford, Pa., Aug. 17, 1840; son of Joseph and Eliza (Gilbert) Cope; grandson of Joseph and Ann (Taylor) Cope and of Abner and Ann (Cooper) Gilbert; great-grandson of John Cope; and of Benjamin Gilbert, who with his family was taken captive by the Indians in 1780; and a direct descendant of Oliver Cope, who came to America
from Avebury, Wiltshire, England, and settled in Pennsylvania in 1682-83. He was educated at Friends' schools in West Chester and Westtown, completing his course at the latter in 1857. He engaged in farming, in collecting historical and genealogical data, and in preserving church and other public records and manuscripts. He was elected a member and director of the Genealogical society of Pennsylvania, secretary of the Chester county historical society, member of the Historical society of Pennsylvania, of the Delaware historical society, and corresponding member of the New England historic genealogical society in 1861. He was married Feb. 5, 1880, to Anna Garrett. He compiled manuscript abstracts of Friends' records and put into book form hundreds of folio volumes of ancient manuscript both for his personal use and for the Pennsylvania historical society. He is the author of Cope Genealogy (1861); Duttons of Pennsylvania (1871); Futhey and Cope's History of Chester County (1881); Sharpless Genealogy (1887); Darlington Genealogy (1899); Smedley Genealogy (in preparation, 1899); and of various genealogical MSS.
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