Bio of PAUL, Amasa Copp (b.1857), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 250-253
AMASA COPP PAUL
Amasa Copp Paul, a member of the Minneapolis bar for nearly four decades, has
specialized in the law of patents and trade-marks and is recognized all over the
United States as a leading authority thereon. He was born in Wakefield. Carroll
county, New Hampshire, September 12, 1857, a son of Hiram and Mary Porter (Copp)
Paul, and is a descendant of Daniel Paul, who settled at Kittery, Maine, prior
to 1640. Another ancestor, William Copp, in whose honor Copp's Hill, Boston, was
named, emigrated to America in 1635. Captain David Copp, great-greatgrandfather
of Amasa C. Paul, was a Revolutionary soldier and one of the original settlers
of Wakefield.
The public schools of his native state afforded A. C. Paul his early educational
opportunities and later he spent two years in Dartmouth College as a member of
the class of 1878. He next devoted four years to teaching in the public schools
of Washington, D. C., where he also attended the National University Law School,
from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1880. Two years later the degree
of LL. M. was conferred upon him by Columbian, now George Washington,
University. On the 1st of January, 1881, he was appointed assistant examiner in
the United States patent office, where he remained until 1884, and acquired such
familiarity with patent law as to cause his subsequent devotion to that special
line of practice In June, 1884, he removed to Minneapolis, where he has since
specialized in the law of patents and trade-marks, now practicing as senior
member of the firm of Paul, Paul & Moore. He is the author of "Paul on
Trade-Marks," which was published in 1903 and has had a wide circulation.
On the llth of May, 1881, Mr. Paul was united in marriage to Miss Ella Mortimer
Williams, a daughter of Dr. Mortimer Williams of Moorefleld, West Virginia. She
passed away December 20, 1908. Politically Mr. Paul is a republican, while his
religious faith is that of the Congregational church. He has attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the Masonic fraternity and is also
a member of the Mystic Shrine. He holds a life membership in the Minneapolis
Society of Fine Arts and the Minnesota Historical Society, belongs to the
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Athletic, Minikahda and Automobile clubs and to the
Union League Club of Chicago.