 Lawyer and writer, James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote "The Last of the Mohicans", was also from Burlington.His father was a merchant there before buying land and developing Cooperstown, New York after the Revolution.As education for girls and young women became emphasized in the 19th century, Bishop George Washington Doane founded St. Mary's Hall in 1837 in association with the Episcopal diocese as the first Episcopal boarding school offering a classical education for girls and the first such school in New Jersey.