James Hamilton Couper (1794-1866) manager and part owner of Hopeton, Altama, and Elizafield plantations in Glynn County, Georgia, and a noted scientific agriculturist.
born in Sunbury, Liberty County, Georgia, on 5 March 1794[1]
graduated from Yale University in 1814.[2]
Hannan, Caryn (1 December 2008). Georgia Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 9781878592422.
Bagwell, James E. (2002). Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast. ISBN 9780865547971.
Reed Ferguson, T. (1996). The John Couper Family at Cannon's Point. ISBN 9780865544543.
Malcolm Bell, Jr (2004). Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family. ISBN 9780820323954.
Anodonta couperiana (freshwater mollusc of Utterbackia genus)[5] and Drymarchon couperi (Eastern Indigo Snake) named after him.[6]
- Littoridinops tenuipes (1844)[7]
Works
edit- Couper, J. H.; Hodgson, William Brown (1846). Memoir on the Megatherium, and other extinct gigantic quadrupeds of the coast of Georgia: With observations on its geologic feature.
- Couper, J. H. (1839). The Pulaski Disaster.
- Couper, James Hamilton (1831). J. Hamilton Couper and J. Crawford Report. Kislak Collection (Library Of Congress).
References
edit- ^ Bob Franks. "The Liberty County GAGenWeb: James Hamilton Couper Biography". Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ "Private Tutor". Infoplease.com. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ "Digital Southern Historical Collection". Dc.lib.unc.edu. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ "James Hamilton Couper - Definition of James Hamilton Couper". Yourdictionary.com. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ "MUSSELp Database | Anodonta couperiana". Mussel-project.uwsp.edu. 8 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ "Drymarchon couperi | The Reptile Database". Reptile-database.reptarium.cz. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ "The Mollusca of the Crosby Sanctuary, Clay Co., Florida". Jaxshells.org. 22 June 1980. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
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