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Mildred (Cooper) Couper
was born in Buenos Aires, in 1887
Mildred was the last of 8 children born to Reginald Cooper and
Harriet Hathaway Jacobs. The family had a large estate outside
Buenos Aires in Lomas de Zamora. They were active in St. Johns
Episcopal Church, Buenos Aires, where very detailed records were kept on
births, marriages, and deaths. Much of the data below was taken from
church transcripts at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jnth/ or
http://www.argbrit.org/ researched by Jeremy Howat.
Mildred's grandfather, Wilson Jacobs of Maine, US, was one of the
founders of this church.
He was also a founder of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange in 1854.
See
Family Charts.
Mildred was born near the tango area of San Telmo, in via Pichincha 277,
Buenos Aires.
Mildred Couper studied piano in Germany, France, and Italy. She
married artist Richard Hamilton Couper and they lived the first few
years in Rome, Italy. After Richards early death from the 1918 Influenza
Epidemic, Mildred lived in New York, before eventually settling in Santa
Barbara, California. Here she was a founder of the Music Academy
of the West, taught at the Cate School, and was President of the Santa
Barbara Music Society. She gave concerts and taught music from her
estate Monteverde, near the Santa
Barbara Mission, and had a summer house in Carpinteria.
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