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., 1894); N. P. Gilman, _Profit Sharing_ (London, 1892); C. Robert, _Guide pratique de la participation_ (Paris, 1892); Aneurin Williams, _Twenty-eight Years of Co-partnership at Guise_ (Letchworth, 1908), _Relations of Co-operative Movement to National and International Commerce_ (Manchester, 1896); Dallet-Fabre-Prudhommeaux, _Le Familistere illustre_ (Paris, 1901); Bernadot, _Le Familistere de Guise_ (Guise, 1892); E. O. Greening, _The Co-operative Traveller Abroad_ (London, 1888); H. W. Wolff, _People's Banks_ (London, 1893, 1896), _Co-operative Banking, its Principles and Practice, with a chapter on Co-operative Mortgage Credit_ (London, 1907); de Rocquigny, _La Co-operation de production dans l'agriculture_ (Paris, 1896); Merlin, _Les Associations ouvrieres et patronales_, &c. (Paris, 1900); Mabilleau and others, _La Prevoyance sociale en Italie_ (Paris, 1898); Fr. Muller, _Wesen, Grundsatze und Nutzen der Consumvereine_ (Basel, 1900). See also the annual Reports of the Government Labour Departments, and the _Monthly Bulletin_ of the Internat. Co-op. Alliance. (A. Wi.*) FOOTNOTE: [1] Holyoake, _History of Co-operation_ (1906 edition), i. 34. COOPERSTOWN, a village and the county-seat of Otsego county, New York, U.S.A., where the Susquehanna river emerges from Otsego Lake; about 92 m. (by rail) W. of Albany. Pop. (1890) 2657; (1900) 2368; (1905) 2446; (1910) 2484. It is served by the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley railway (owned and controlled by the Delaware & Hudson), and is on the line of the Oneonta & Mohawk Valley electric railway. The village lies in the midst of a hop-growing and dairying region, and has cheese factories and creameries. It has a public library, Thanksgiving hospital, a Y.M.C.A. hall, and the Diocesan orphanage (Protestant Episcopal). Cooperstown is a summer resort, Otsego Lake (9 m. long and with an average width of about 1 m.), the "Glimmerglass" of Cooper's novels, being one of the most picturesque of the New York lakes. Cooperstown occupies the site of an old Indian town. In 1785 the site became the property of Judge William Cooper, who in the following year founded there a village which took his name and was incorporated in 1807. Judge Cooper himself settled here with his family in 1790. His son, James Fenimore Cooper, who lived here for many years and is buried in the Episcopal cemetery here, made the region famous in his novels. Se
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