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Where did James Fenimore Cooper spend most of his childhood?
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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 spent the vast majority of his childhood in Cooperstown, a frontier settlement in upstate New York founded by his father, William Cooper. Although he was born in Burlington, New Jersey, his family moved to the settlement when he was only one year old.123