Mendocino County Biographies

J. A. Cooper

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Rutherford county, North Carolina, December 25, 1852. 
His ancestors were of English descent and were among the earliest colonial 
settlers in the United States. His grandfather, Nathaniel Webb, was engaged in 
the battle of Bunker Hill, and was in the army of the Colonists during the 
entire period of the Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch was educated 
at Ashville Academy, North Carolina, from which he graduated in 1869. In 1870 he 
left his native State, and came to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he resided till 
May 1876, being engaged in teaching, and devoting his time during leisure hours 
and his vacations to reading law. In the above year he came to California, and 
immediately entered the law office of Hon. A. Thomas, of Santa Rosa, under whose 
instruction he completed his law course, and was, after examination in open 
court, admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of California, July 11, 1877. In 
August of that year he came to Ukiah, at which place he permanently located and 
immediately entered into the active practice of his profession. He has now a 
numerous clientage and is doing an active business. He was employed in the 
defense of Brown, Gaunec and Wheeler, the famous �Mendocino outlaws.�
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 634, 635