Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cooper, Dr. Charles Bryant November 19, 1864 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

DR. CHARLES BRYANT COOPER, Physician and soldier. Coming here as a young man, 
Dr. Charles Bryant Cooper, physician and surgeon, adopted Honolulu as his home 
and became a figure in the making of Hawaiian history.
  While practicing medicine in Butte, Montana, Dr. Cooper’s health failed. In 
search of a change of climate he came to Honolulu in 1891. Since that time his 
career has been largely dedicated to the betterment of health conditions in 
Hawaii and the advancement of his profession.
  In 1893 Dr. Cooper became police and prison surgeon for the government of 
Hawaii, and was commissioned regimental surgeon in December of the same year. 
He participated in the spectacular search for lepers on the island of Kauai, 
in July, 1893, in which three members of the military party were killed. The 
lepers were resisting removal to the colony on Molokai.
  From 1894 to 1904 Dr. Cooper was attending physician and consulting surgeon 
at The Queen’s Hospital. Following annexation, he became of member of the 
Territorial Board of Health, in 1900. As president of the board in 1904, Dr. 
Cooper inaugurated the plan for furthering research for a cure for leprosy. 
This resulted in an appropriation by Congress of $100,000 for equipment and an 
annual maintenance fund of $50,000. From 1904 to 1919 he served as 
commissioner of public health, a member of the board of medical examiners and 
chairman of the board of industrial schools. In the same period he was chief 
surgeon for the Oahu Railway & Land Co., and a member of the insanity 
commission.
  Dr. Cooper has had much military experience. He served the provisional 
government as regimental surgeon and later performed the same duty for the 
Republic, 1895 to 1898, and after annexation was commissioned surgeon general 
of the National Guard of Hawaii with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He 
resigned in 1917 to accept a commission as captain in the national army, 
rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1918. He was honorably discharged 
from the army July 31, 1919. In Dec., 1919, he was commissioned colonel in the 
medical reserve corps for a period of five years. Dr. Cooper received military 
training in the field service school for medical officers held at Fort 
Leavenworth, Kans., in 1912. In 1922 he served under the late President 
Harding, while on a year’s vacation in Europe, as a “Dollar a year man” with 
the Veterans’ Bureau, doing valuable service. He was present and represented 
the Veterans’ Bureau in Coblentz, Germany, when the American troops moved out 
in 1922, turning over the occupied territory to the French. 
  Among Dr. Cooper’s valued possessions is the following resolution passed by 
the Territorial Board of Health when he retired from that body:
				RESOLUTION
  WHEREAS, Dr. Charles Bryant Cooper has been an earnest and devoted member of 
the Territorial Board of Health for several years past, during three years of 
which period he occupied the presidential chair, therefore be it
  RESOLVED, That in view of the ability and energy shown by Dr. Cooper 
throughout his long term of service in all matters pertaining to the public 
health of the Territory his loss will be deeply felt by this department and 
that his colleagues sincerely regret his retirement from participation in the 
labors of the board;
  RESOLVED, That we hereby record our high opinion of the work he has done for 
the advancement of hygiene and sanitation and for the protection of these 
islands against the inroads of disease and pestilence.
  RESOLVED, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes and that a copy 
be sent to Dr. Cooper. 
						W.H. MAYS, M.D.
						M.P. ROBINSON,
						F.C. SMITH,
Honolulu, T. H., May 10, 1905			Committee.
  Dr. Cooper was born Nov. 19, 1864, at Babylon, N.Y., the son of Rev. Charles 
White and Frances (Duyckinck) Cooper. He is of the same branch of the family 
as Peter Cooper, philanthropist and founder of the Cooper Institute, New York, 
and of James Fennimore Cooper, the novelist. His mother’s ancestors came to 
America from Holland in the early part of the 17th century, and his father’s 
ancestors came from Buckinghamshire, England, at about the same time.
  He was educated at Wallkill Academy, Middleton, N.Y.; Williston Seminary, 
Easthampton, Mass., and Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., where he 
received his M.D. in 1889.
 Dr. Cooper married Katherine Christie McGrew, daughter of the late Dr. John 
S. McGrew, in Honolulu, March 24, 1897. They have three children, Charles 
Bryant Cooper, Jr., John McGrew Cooper and Frances D. Cooper.
  Dr. Cooper is a member of the board of regents, University of Hawaii; Fellow 
of the American Medical Association, member and ex-president of the Hawaiian 
Medical Association, and a member of the Association of Pacific Coast Railroad 
Surgeons.
  He is a Shriner, past potentate of Aloha Temple, and was the first exalted 
ruler of Honolulu Lodge, No. 616, B.P.O.E. He is a member and former president 
of the Pacific Club and a member of the University, Rotary, Ad and Oahu 
Country Clubs.


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