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When and where was James Fenimore Cooper born?
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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper, painting by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822; in the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York.
James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.1