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. He was married in 1833 to Maria Louisa Appleton, the daughter of publisher

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. Starting around that time under the firm name Cooley & Bangs, afterwards Cooley, Keese & Hill, he conducted the semi-annual New York City book trade sales at his auction rooms, in later years in conjunction with his son-in-law

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, who took over the business in 1866. He was the author of ''The American in Egypt: with Rambles Through Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land, During the Years 1839 and 1840'' (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1842). He died in 1882 at the Bagni di Lucca near

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, Italy, where he had been residing for several years."Obituary: The Hon. James E. Cooley," ''The Churchman'', Sept. 9, 1882, p. 291.

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