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Ezekiel Cooper was born on February 22, 1763 in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Richard and Ann Cooper, whom he described as “plain people, in easy and plentiful circumstances. ”
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Ezekiel Cooper was born on February 22, 1763 in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Richard and Ann Cooper, whom he described as “plain people, in easy and plentiful circumstances. ”
Cooper was brought up in the Church of England, but when thirteen years old became interested in the type of religion exemplified by the Methodists, through the preaching of Freeborn Garrettson. It was not until several years later, however, after having experienced the inner struggle which the evangelical theology of the day was likely to engender, that he joined a Methodist society. Garrettson made him a class-leader in Talbot County, but he long hesitated to become a preacher, though, he says, “I was bold in reproving, and zealous in inviting sinners in private to turn to the Lord and seek the salvation of their souls. My earnestness in this soon had such an effect that it was seldom that any of my acquaintances would sin within my sight or hearing. ”
Finally, in 1784, he was brought to the attention of Francis Asbury who appointed him to the Caroline circuit. At the conference of 1785, held at Baltimore, he was admitted on trial, and on June 3, 1787, at John Street Church, New York, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Asbury. His ministry covered a wide era, including Long Island, East Jersey, Trenton, Baltimore, Annapolis, Alexandria, the Boston district, of which he was superintendent, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Wilmington.
It was his business ability, no doubt, which in 1779 led to his being appointed agent of the Methodist Book Concern. When he took charge it had no capital, and debts equaling its assets; when he left in 1808 it was on a firm foundation with assets of $45, 000. Even when in a slave-holding community he vigorously opposed slavery, publishing in the (Annapolis) Maryland Gazette in 1790-1791 a series of letters in advocacy of freedom, under the signature of “A Freeman. ” A letter by him on the same subject, dated April 18, 1791, appeared in the Maryland Journal, another in the Virginia Gazette of November 17, 1791, and one dated November 28, 1791, in the same paper. His only other publications seem to have been, A Funeral Discourse on the Death of that Eminent Man the Late John Dickens (1799) and The Substance of a Funeral Discourse . . on the Death of the Rev. Francis Asbury (1819).
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Cooper was raised in the Church of England, but at the age of 13, he became interested in Methodism.
Physically Cooper was a man to attract attention, being over six feet tall and heavy of frame, with large head, high forehead, sharp features, and a large wen suspended from his right jaw. He was extremely frugal, some said penurious, and succeeded in leaving an estate of $50, 000.