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Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, who died in Paris on August 25 last, at the age of sixty years, was the son of a leading New York iron manufacturer and merchant well known as the promoter of many civic, educational, and philanthropic causes. His mother was the daughter of Peter Cooper, an inventor, manufacturer, and railroad builder, who presented New York with the Cooper Union for the advancement of art and science, now more usually known as Cooper Institute.
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B, C. Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt. Nature 108, 188–189 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108188b0
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