Alameda-San Diego-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Cooper, James G. 1830 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 17, 2006, 10:41 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) JAMES G. COOPER, M. D., Haywards, is an old practitioner of the regular profession. He was born June 19, 1830, in New York city. In 1840 his parents moved into New Jersey, where our subject completed his school studies. His father, William Cooper, was born in 1797, in New York, and was a farmer by vocation until he was appointed Associate Judge by the Governor of that State. He also served in the war of 1812, as an officer. He married Miss Mary Wilson, a native of Troy, New York, and they had six children, our subject being the first. The Doctor's paternal grandfather was a native of Yorkshire, England; the ancestors on his mother's side were also English, and came to America during the last century, some of them serving in the Revolutionary war. Dr. Cooper graduated in his profession at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city, in 1851, and practiced in the city hospitals there two years. In 1853 he received an appointment from the Government arid came to the Pacific coast as the physician of the surveying party of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He remained with this party until 1856, when he returned to New Jersey, and practiced his profession there until 1860, when he joined another expedition, accompanying 300 soldiers to the Pacific coast by way of Fort Benton and the northern line of forts, who left detachments at different points along the line. He wintered with the troops at Fort Mojave on the Colorado River, and then went to San Diego and thence to San Francisco. He volunteered and served as surgeon in the Second California Volunteer Cavalry, and served until 1865, when he resigned and came to Oakland, remaining one year. Then he practiced medicine in San Francisco until 1871, when his health became impaired and he moved south to Ventura County, where he followed agriculture until 1873. He then moved to East Oakland and remained there until 1875, when he finally settled in Haywards, where he has retired from active practice. He is a member of Haywards Lodge, No. 18, A. O. U. W., and of Clinton Lodge, No. 2019, K. of H., of East Oakland. The Doctor was married at Oakland, January 9, 1866, to Miss Rosa M. Wells, a native of New York, and they have three children, namely: William W., Fannie S. and James S. Additional Comments: Extracted from Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day. "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendents." – Macauley. CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1891. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/alameda/bios/cooper788nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/