John Montgomery Cooper was born on October 28, 1881, in Rockville, Maryland and grew up in the city of Baltimore.
[2] After his ordination to the priesthood in 1905, Cooper received an invitation from the rector of the Catholic University of America to join the Department of Apologetics.
[2] Though Cooper's expertise was in the Indians of South America, he never did fieldwork there; instead, he took research trips to study Native American tribes who spoke Algonquian languages, making several visits to the Great Plains and northeastern Canada.
Their features, hair texture, hairiness, the shape of the nose, mouth, and so on, are all distinctly Caucasoid".
[4] Cooper founded the academic journal Primitive Man, which was renamed Anthropological Quarterly in 1953.