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Cooper, Benjamin – Cooper, Henry Allen

Cooper, Benjamin

naval officer, was born in 1793 in New Jersey. He was appointed to the United States navy as midshipman in 1809, and served with distinction during the war of 1812. He was promoted and attained the grade of captain in 1828. He died June 1, 1850, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Cooper, Charles

poet, was born April 23, 1822, in England. He is the author of Signs of the Day, and other poems of merit. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he has taken an active part in public affairs.

Cooper, Charles M

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1856, in Athens, Ga. He was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1880, and was elected to state senate in 1884.

He was appointed attorney-general of the state in 1885 for term of four years, and was appointed in 1889 one of three commissioners to revise the statutes of the state. He was elected to the fifty-third congress and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.

Cooper, David

jurist. He was appointed a judge of the United States court of Minnesota in 1850.

Cooper, Edmund

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 1821, in Franklin, Tenn. He was elected to the Tennessee legislature, was elected a union delegate to the state convention proposed in 1861, and was again elected to the state legislature in 1865, but resigned on being elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth congress. In 1867 he was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury.

Cooper, Elias Samuel

surgeon, was born in 1821 in Butler county, Ohio.

He took an active part in the organization of the medical department of the university of the Pacific, the first medical school on the Pacific coast; and at the time of his death was professor of surgery and president of the medical faculty. He established the San Francisco Medical Press, and was a contributor to eastern medical journals. He died Oct. 13, 1862, in San Francisco, Cal.

Cooper, Ellwood

horticulturist, author, was born May 24, 1829, in Sadsbury, Pa. He is a horticulturist of southern California, president of the state board of horticulture; and the author of Statistics of Trade with Hayti; Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees; and Treatise on Olive Culture.

Cooper, George B

congressman, was born June 6, 1808, in Long Hill, N. J.

He served in the two houses of the Michigan state legislature; served two terms as state treasurer of Michigan; and was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-sixth congress. He died in 1866 in Shark river, N. J.

Cooper, George Henry

naval officer, was born June 27, 1821, in New York.

He commanded the Pensacola navy yard; and from 1878 to 1880 was president of the board of inspection. In 1880 he took command of the navy yard at Brooklyn, and was promoted to be rear-admiral.

He was commander-in-chief of the Atlantic squadron, until his retirement in 1884. He died Nov. 17, 1891, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Cooper, Henry Allen

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in Walworth county, Wis. He was elected district attorney of Racine county, and was re-elected without opposition in 1882 and 1884. He was a delegate to the national republican convention of 1884; a member of the board of education of the city of Racine in 1886-87, and was a member of state senate 1887-89. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.