Emmor Cope

Emmor Bradley[1] Cope
Born(1834-07-23)July 23, 1834
East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, US[2]
DiedMay 28, 1927(1927-05-28) (aged 92)
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Interment
Evergreen Cemetery (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
39°49′13″N 77°13′49″W / 39.820391°N 77.230196°W / 39.820391; -77.230196
AllegianceUnited States United States
Service / branchUnited States Union Army
Years of serviceJune 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]
Battles26
Other work1861: 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]

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  5. ^ "The Exhibit to Worlds Fair" (Google News Archive). Gettysburg Compiler. March 30, 1904. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  6. ^ 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.[permanent dead link‍]
  7. ^ "1911 Report". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  8. ^ "30th Pennsylvania Infantry Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
  9. ^ Reed, Charles Wellington; Campbell, Eric A (2000). A Grand Terrible Dramma (Google Books). Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 9780823219711. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  10. ^ a b c d 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.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ "The Invasion of Gettysburg" (PDF). The New York Times. June 4, 1893. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  13. ^ "1893-5 battlefield survey". Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  14. ^ Gettysburg, Mailing Address: 1195 Baltimore Pike; Us, PA 17325 Phone:334-1124 Contact. "Battlefield Rehabilitation at Gettysburg - Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "Gettysburg National Military Park Marker" (HMdb.org webpage for marker 14520). War Department. 1908. Retrieved 2011-02-08. (NPS webpage, MN508) Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ "Roller and Storage Building". List of Classified Structures, p. 13. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. 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'.
  17. ^ "Cross, Brooke, and De Trobriand avenues". Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  18. ^ "New York State Memorial Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
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  21. ^ "schaefer "If You Seek His Monument" - Google Search". www.google.com.