Emmor Bradley
[1] Cope | |
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Born | East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, US [2] | July 23, 1834
Died | May 28, 1927 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US | (aged 92)
Interment | 39°49′13″N 77°13′49″W / 39.820391°N 77.230196°W |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/ | Union Army |
Years of service | June 4, 1861 - June 26, 1865
[2] (Sergeant: June 10, 1861; artillery Corporal: April 1862; commissioned April 25, 1864; Capt of Engineers: April 20, 1864) [3] |
Rank |
Major: February 9, 1865 ( Bvt Lt Col: June 26, 1865) [3] |
Battles | 26 |
Other work | 1861: machinist,
Copesville, PA 1893 July: Topographic Engineer [2] Chief of Engineers, GNPC 1st Superintendent, GNMP 1927: oldest US Civil Service employee [4] |
Emmor Cope (1834-1927) 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", [5] which he researched by horseback as a sergeant [6] after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. [7] 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, [8] [2] (First Pennsylvania Reserves), [9] temporarily detached to Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery, [3] and mustered out as a V Corps aide-de-camp of Maj Gen Gouverneur K. Warren.
On July 17, 1893, [10] Cope was appointed the Topographical Engineer of the Gettysburg National Park Commission [11] ( established for "ascertaining the extent of... the trolley") [12] and oversaw the 1893-5 battlefield survey [13] with benchmark at the Gettysburg center square. [10]: 7 By 1904, [10]: 103 Cope was the first park superintendent, and, after the commission became defunct in March 1922 when the last commissioner died, became the battlefield head [2] through the remainder of the commemorative era of the Gettysburg National Military Park.
Cope's designs include structures (e.g., the original park "gateway"), [14] [2] markers (1908 GNMP bronze tablet/granite monolith), [15] buildings (the 1903 Roller and Storage Building), [16] roads (Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues), [17] 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 (4.3 m) wooden relief map of the battlefield by J. C. Wierman for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition [10]: 98 (on display at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center).
Emmor Cope is buried with his wife along the outside of the Gettysburg National Cemetery fence near the New York State Memorial, [18] and had a daughter and son: Jean Wible [19] and John B. Cope (1877-1903). [20]
Cope's 1996 biography is If You Seek His Monument- Look Around: E.B. Cope and the Gettysburg National Military Park. [21]
Over 40 historic district contributing structures were designed by Emmor Cope, including:
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1904 Gettysburg relief map by Cope |
designed the gateway at the entrance to Hancock avenue on the Taneytown road and the monument commemorating the regular army
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14 feet long by 10 1/2 feet wide, and... 9 feet 2 1/3 inches by 12 feet 8 inches.
The [Gettysburg National Park] commission ceased to exist on the death of Colonel Nicholson.
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1 story U-shaped flat-slope hot-tar roof. Projecting center on N elev. w/ 2 wd arched garage bay openings framing single entry, enframed w/ brick banding. Pronounced wdw bays w/ single lights in ea bay. Topped w/ corbelled cornice. Overall 73'x49'.
Emmor Bradley
[1] Cope | |
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Born | East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, US [2] | July 23, 1834
Died | May 28, 1927 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US | (aged 92)
Interment | 39°49′13″N 77°13′49″W / 39.820391°N 77.230196°W |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/ | Union Army |
Years of service | June 4, 1861 - June 26, 1865
[2] (Sergeant: June 10, 1861; artillery Corporal: April 1862; commissioned April 25, 1864; Capt of Engineers: April 20, 1864) [3] |
Rank |
Major: February 9, 1865 ( Bvt Lt Col: June 26, 1865) [3] |
Battles | 26 |
Other work | 1861: machinist,
Copesville, PA 1893 July: Topographic Engineer [2] Chief of Engineers, GNPC 1st Superintendent, GNMP 1927: oldest US Civil Service employee [4] |
Emmor Cope (1834-1927) 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", [5] which he researched by horseback as a sergeant [6] after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. [7] 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, [8] [2] (First Pennsylvania Reserves), [9] temporarily detached to Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery, [3] and mustered out as a V Corps aide-de-camp of Maj Gen Gouverneur K. Warren.
On July 17, 1893, [10] Cope was appointed the Topographical Engineer of the Gettysburg National Park Commission [11] ( established for "ascertaining the extent of... the trolley") [12] and oversaw the 1893-5 battlefield survey [13] with benchmark at the Gettysburg center square. [10]: 7 By 1904, [10]: 103 Cope was the first park superintendent, and, after the commission became defunct in March 1922 when the last commissioner died, became the battlefield head [2] through the remainder of the commemorative era of the Gettysburg National Military Park.
Cope's designs include structures (e.g., the original park "gateway"), [14] [2] markers (1908 GNMP bronze tablet/granite monolith), [15] buildings (the 1903 Roller and Storage Building), [16] roads (Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues), [17] 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 (4.3 m) wooden relief map of the battlefield by J. C. Wierman for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition [10]: 98 (on display at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center).
Emmor Cope is buried with his wife along the outside of the Gettysburg National Cemetery fence near the New York State Memorial, [18] and had a daughter and son: Jean Wible [19] and John B. Cope (1877-1903). [20]
Cope's 1996 biography is If You Seek His Monument- Look Around: E.B. Cope and the Gettysburg National Military Park. [21]
Over 40 historic district contributing structures were designed by Emmor Cope, including:
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1904 Gettysburg relief map by Cope |
designed the gateway at the entrance to Hancock avenue on the Taneytown road and the monument commemorating the regular army
{{
citation}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
14 feet long by 10 1/2 feet wide, and... 9 feet 2 1/3 inches by 12 feet 8 inches.
The [Gettysburg National Park] commission ceased to exist on the death of Colonel Nicholson.
{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
1 story U-shaped flat-slope hot-tar roof. Projecting center on N elev. w/ 2 wd arched garage bay openings framing single entry, enframed w/ brick banding. Pronounced wdw bays w/ single lights in ea bay. Topped w/ corbelled cornice. Overall 73'x49'.