Charles Henry Cooper (judge)

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Charles Henry Cooper (born September 15, 1865 in Houghton Regis , Bedfordshire , † September 17, 1946 in Tracy , San Joaquin County ) was an American lawyer and rancher . He was Associate Justice on the Montana Supreme Court from 1919 to 1924 .

Life

Charles Cooper was one of twelve children of John Gooding Cooper (1830–1877) and his wife Rebecca, nee Duncan (1832–1877). In 1883, after completing school, he emigrated to the United States with his brother Walter (1862–1936) . After arriving in Boston , he worked in Wisconsin for two years . It is reported from a job with the Northern Pacific Railway and also as a wheat farmer in Nebraska .

In 1893 he was admitted as a legal scholar and in the same year he met the later actress Alice Augusta Louisa Brazier (1873-1967) from Gillingham , who was born in Sheerness and who was visiting her brother Alfred Charles.

In 1895 Charles Cooper became an assistant to Preston Leslie , the governor of the Montana Territory and US district attorney . In the same year, the first son of the Arthur Leroy family (1895–1982) was born, who later entered the banking business. Cooper joined Wilbur F. Sanders' office .

In 1901 the second son Frank James was born, who later became a well-known actor under the name Gary Cooper . Charles Cooper now made the family's livelihood as a judge in Helena and also acquired the "7bar9" (Seven Bar Nine) ranch. The ranch was evacuated in 1908 when the Hauser Dam broke . The family went back to England in 1910 to continue the schooling the children had started in Helena. At the school in Dunstable , Gary was called the younger brother "Cooper II" and Arthur "Cooper I". The parents returned to Helena in 1911 without the children, the children only after they had finished school.

From January 1919 to late August 1924, Cooper served as a judge at the Supreme Court of the State of Montana. He resigned four months prior to the end of his six-year tenure as a judge, accompanied by the resignation of acting District Attorney Wellington D. Rankin . After that he had a law firm in Hollywood and worked as an agent for his son Gary Cooper. In April 1928 he returned to Helena, where he again bought a ranch that was to serve as a location for his films. Due to mismanagement, the ranch had to be sold in 1939 for financial reasons.

Charles Cooper was a Freemason 32  degree and member of the Republicans . He died at the age of 81. His grave is in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale , California .

literature

  • Tom Stout: Montana, Its Story and Biography. A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Montana and Three Decades of Statehood. American Historical Society, 1921. (Brief biography of Judge Cooper)
  • Montana 1901-1909. (= Chapter 1). In: Jeffrey Meyers: Gary Cooper: American Hero . Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, ISBN 0-8154-1140-5 . ( online )
  • Charles Henry Cooper. In: Matthew Kinne: Fathers of Influence: Inspiring Stories of Men Who Made a Difference in Their Children and Their World . David C. Cook, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56292-883-4 , p. 37 ff. ( Online )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Year of birth can also be found with 1866 .
  2. ↑ Place of death also given as Los Angeles .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gary Cooper, Film Actor (1901–1961) ( Memento December 2, 2014 on the Internet Archive ), Famous Ancestry.
  2. ↑ a b c d comp. Meyers: Gary Cooper: American Hero . Rowman & Littlefield, chap. 1.
  3. ↑ cf. Kinne: Fathers of Influence: Inspiring Stories of Men Who Made a Difference in Their Children and Their World
  4. ↑ Alice L. Brazier Cooper , Find A Grave.
  5. ↑ Larry Swindell: The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper, Garden City, NY, Doubleday 1980, p. 12.
  6. ^ Film star Gary Cooper's brother could also handle a rifle , Luton News Herold & Post, September 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Charles Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American judge and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: September 15, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Houghton Regis , Bedfordshire
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1946
Place of death unsure: Tracy , San Joaquin County