Hyde Hall

Ann Cary Cooper Clarke

Ann Cary Cooper Clarke

Ann Cary Cooper Clarke (1783-1850)

Oil on canvas painted by Charles Ingham  (1797-1863)

1835

Ann Cary Cooper Clarke was the daughter of Col. Richard Cary, of George Washington’s staff.  She married Richard Cooper (1775-1813), the oldest brother of novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), and a land agent for George Clarke.  After Richard Cooper’s death in 1813, she married George Clarke (1768-1835), the builder of Hyde Hall.

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