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On this day in history, September 15, 1789, James Fenimore Cooper, the first popular, professional novelist in the United States, was born in Burlington, New Jersey.

He was the sixth and youngest son of William Cooper, who founded the frontier town of Cooperstown at the southern end of Lake Otsego in upstate New York in 1790, and became the first judge of Otsego County and a congressman, made a fortune in real estate, and wrote A Guide in the Wilderness in 1810.

James grew up in Cooperstown and was a high-spirited boy; but he was expelled from Yale University because of his numerous but mostly harmless pranks. His father pressured him to join the navy, and he spent five years at sea, eventually as a midshipman stationed at Fort Oswego in New York in 1808-09.

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