Emmor Cope
Emmor Bradley Cope (23 July 1834 – 28 May 1927) was an American Civil War officer of the Union Army noted for the "Map of the Battlefield of Gettysburg from the original survey made August to October, 1863", which he researched by horseback as a sergeant after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Cope is also noted for commemorative era battlefield administration and designs, including the layout of the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. Cope had enlisted as a Private of Company A, (First Pennsylvania Reserves), temporarily detached to Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery, and mustered out as a V Corps aide-de-camp of Maj Gen Gouverneur K. On July 17, 1893, Cope was appointed the Topographical Engineer of the Gettysburg National Park Commission (established for "ascertaining the extent of..
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Emmor Cope
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- Name
- Emmor Bradley Cope
- Born
- 23 July 1834
- Birthplace
- East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, US
- Died
- 28 May 1927
- Place of death
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- cartographer · architect
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Emmor Bradley Cope (23 July 1834 – 28 May 1927) was an American Civil War officer of the Union Army noted for the "Map of the Battlefield of Gettysburg from the original survey made August to October, 1863", which he researched by horseback as a sergeant after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Cope is also noted for commemorative era battlefield administration and designs, including the layout of the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. Cope had enlisted as a Private of Company A, (First Pennsylvania Reserves), temporarily detached to Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery, and mustered out as a V Corps aide-de-camp of Maj Gen Gouverneur K. On July 17, 1893, Cope was appointed the Topographical Engineer of the Gettysburg National Park Commission (established for "ascertaining the extent of..
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Emmor Cope (1834–1927) was an architect and cartographer, of American nationality. The architect was born in East Bradford Township and died in Gettysburg.
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The trolley") and oversaw the 1893-5 battlefield survey with benchmark at the Gettysburg center square. Cope's designs include structures (e.g, the original park "gateway"), markers (1908 GNMP bronze tablet/granite monolith), buildings (the 1903 Roller and Storage Building), roads (Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues), and the observation tower at Gettysburg and Valley Forge. He oversaw the development of post-war maps drawn by GNPC cartographer Schuyler A. Hammond, as well as a 14 ft wooden relief map of the battlefield by J. Wierman for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (on display at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center). Buried with his wife along the outside of the Gettysburg National Cemetery fence near the New York State Memorial, and had a daughter and son: Jean Wible and John B. Cope's 1996 biography is If You Seek His Monument- Look Around: E.B. Cope and the Gettysburg National Military Park.
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• Name — Emmor Bradley Cope • Born — 23 July 1834 • Birthplace — East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, US • Died — 28 May 1927 • Place of death — Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US • Burial Label — Interment • Burial Place — Evergreen Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) • Allegiance — United States • Branch — army Union Army • Service Years — June 4, 1861 - June 26, 1865 (Sergeant: June 10, 1861; artillery Corporal: April 1862; commissioned April 25, 1864; Capt of Engineers: April 20, 1864) • Rank — Major: February 9, 1865 (Bvt Lt Col: June 26, 1865) • Battles Label — Battles • Battles — 26 • Other Work — 1861: machinist, Copesville, PA 1893 July: Topographic Engineer Chief of Engineers, GNPC 1st Superintendent, GNMP 1927: oldest US Civil Service employee
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Over 40 historic district contributing structures were designed by Emmor Cope, including: • Observation towers at five Gettysburg locations beginning with the 1895 Big Round Top Observation Tower and the 1906 Valley Forge Observation Tower • c. 1896 Gettysburg National Military Park "gateway at the entrance to Hancock avenue on the Taneytown road" • 35 cast iron site ID tablets ("guide" tablets) • 1909 US Regulars monument
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1834
Emmor Cope was born in 1834 at East Bradford Township.
1927
Emmor Cope died in 1927 at Gettysburg.
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- 1.Youngstown Vindicator - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
- 2.National Register of Historic Places. Adams County. Pennsylvania.
- 3.The Exhibit to Worlds Fair. Gettysburg Compiler. March 30, 1904.
- 4.McElfresh Map Company. Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863. December 2019. 978-1-885294-33-3.
- 5.1911 Report.
- 6.30th Pennsylvania Infantry Historical Marker. www.hmdb.org.
- 7.Reed, Charles Wellington. A Grand Terrible Dramma. Fordham Univ Press. 2000. 9780823219711.
- 8.Hannum, Curtis H. Genealogy of the Hannum Family. 1911.
- 9.Credit for Battlefield Here Goes to Nicholson and Cope; Both Veterans. Star and Sentinel. July 9, 1938.
- 10.The Invasion of Gettysburg. The New York Times. June 4, 1893.
- 11.1893-5 battlefield survey.
- 12.Gettysburg, Mailing Address: 1195 Baltimore Pike. Battlefield Rehabilitation at Gettysburg - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service). www.nps.gov.
- 13.War Department. Gettysburg National Military Park Marker. 2011-07-21.
- 14.National Park Service. Roller and Storage Building. List of Classified Structures, p. 13.
- 15.Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues.
- 16.Government Printing Office. Annual Reports of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission. 1905.
- 17.New York State Memorial Historical Marker. www.hmdb.org.
- 18.New Oxford Item - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
- 19.The Star and Sentinel - Google News Archive Search. news.google.com.
- 20.schaefer "If You Seek His Monument" - Google Search. www.google.com.
- 21.Col. E. B. Cope Dies Suddenly Saturday Evening; Ill 8 Months. Gettysburg Times. May 30, 1927.
- 22.1903 Report.
- 23.1909 US Regulars monument
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