Emmor Cope

Emmor Bradley[1] Cope
Born July 23, 1834[2]
East Bradford, Chester County, PA[3]
Died May 28, 1927[2]
Baltimore St., Gettysburg, PA
Interment Evergreen Cemetery, Adams Co., PA[2] (39°49′13″N 77°13′49″W / 39.820391°N 77.230196°W / 39.820391; -77.230196)
Allegiance United States United States of America
Service/branch United States Union Army
Years of service June 4, 1861 - June 26, 1865[3]
(Sergeant: June 10, 1861;
artillery Corporal: April 1862;
commissioned April 25, 1864;
Capt of Engineers: April 20, 1864)[4]
Rank Major: February 9, 1865
(Bvt Lt Col: June 26, 1865)[4]
Battles 26[2]
Other work 1861: machinist, Copesville, PA
1893 July: Topographic Engineer[3]
Chief of Engineers, GNPC
1st Superintendent, GNMP
1927: oldest US Civil Service employee[5]

Emmor Cope 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",[6] which he researched by horseback as a sergeant[7] after being ordered back to Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade.[8] 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,[9][10][3] (First Pennsylvania Reserves),[11] served as an artillery corporal,[4] and mustered out as a V Corps aide-de-camp of Maj Gen Gouverneur K. Warren.[2]

On July 17, 1893,[12] Cope was appointed the Topographical Engineer of the Gettysburg National Park Commission[13] (established for "ascertaining the extent of... the trolley")[14] and oversaw the 1893-5 battlefield survey[15] with benchmark at the Gettysburg center square.[12]:7 By 1904,[12]:103 Cope was the first park superintendent,[2] and, after the commission became defunct in March 1922 when the last commissioner died, became the battlefield head[3] through the remainder of the commemorative era of the Gettysburg National Military Park.

Cope's designs include structures (e.g., the original park "gateway"),[16][3] markers (1908 GNMP bronze tablet/granite monolith),[17] buildings (the 1903 Roller and Storage Building),[18] roads (Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues),[19] 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[20] for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition[12]: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,[21] and had a daughter and son: Jean Wible[22] and John B. Cope (1877-1903).[23]

Cope's 1996 biography is If You Seek His Monument- Look Around: E.B. Cope and the Gettysburg National Military Park.[24]

Designs

Over 40 historic district contributing structures were designed by Emmor Cope, including:

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1904 Gettysburg relief map by Cope
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References

  1. ↑ "Adams County". Pennsylvania. National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Cope [gravestone]" (Gordon Jones FindAGrave image). Retrieved 2011-02-12.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Col. E. B. Cope Dies Suddenly Saturday Evening; Ill 8 Months". Gettysburg Times. May 30, 1927. Retrieved 2011-11-23. designed the gateway at the entrance to Hancock avenue on the Taneytown road and the monument commemorating the regular army
  4. 1 2 3 Hannum, Curtis H (1911), Genealogy of the Hannum Family..., West Chester, Pennsylvania
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "The Exhibit to Worlds Fair" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. March 30, 1904. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  7. ↑ Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863 (PDF) (Map). A Civil War Watercolor Map Series. McElfresh Map Company. 1994. ISBN 978-1-885294-33-3. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  8. ↑
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ 30th Pennsylvania Infantry
  11. ↑ Reed, Charles Wellington; Campbell, Eric A. A Grand Terrible Dramma (Google Books). Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Annual Reports of the Gettysburg National Military Park Commission (Report). Government Printing Office. 1905. Retrieved 2011-02-14. 14 feet long by 10 1/2 feet wide, and... 9 feet 2 1/3 inches by 12 feet 8 inches.
  13. ↑ "Credit for Battlefield Here Goes to Nicholson and Cope; Both Veterans" (Google News Archive). Star and Sentinel. July 9, 1938. Retrieved 2011-02-12. The [Gettysburg National Park] commission ceased to exist on the death of Colonel Nicholson.
  14. ↑ "The Invasion of Gettysburg" (PDF). The New York Times. June 4, 1893. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  15. ↑ 1893-5 battlefield survey
  16. ↑
  17. ↑ "Gettysburg National Military Park Marker" (HMdb.org webpage for marker 14520). War Department. 1908. Retrieved 2011-02-08. (NPS webpage, MN508)
  18. ↑ "Roller and Storage Building". List of Classified Structures, p. 13. National Park Service. Retrieved 2011-05-03. 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'.
  19. ↑ Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues
  20. ↑ J. C. Wierman
  21. ↑ New York State Memorial
  22. ↑ Jean Wible
  23. ↑ John B. Cope (1877-1903)
  24. ↑ If You Seek His Monument- Look Around: E.B. Cope and the Gettysburg National Military Park
  25. ↑
  26. ↑ 1909 US Regulars monument
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