History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ed in this brief sketch. He was marriedChristmas, 1856, to Miss Helen McCowen, in Kansas, and an interestingand talented group of four children bear witness to a mothers earnest careand cultivation: May, born March 15, 1858; Grant and Grace, born Febru-ary 21, 1865; Frank L., born November 8, 1870. J. A. Cooper. Was born in Rutherford county. North Carolina,December 25, 1852. His ancestors were of English descent and were amongthe earliest colonial settlers in the United
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ed in this brief sketch. He was marriedChristmas, 1856, to Miss Helen McCowen, in Kansas, and an interestingand talented group of four children bear witness to a mothers earnest careand cultivation: May, born March 15, 1858; Grant and Grace, born Febru-ary 21, 1865; Frank L., born November 8, 1870. J. A. Cooper. Was born in Rutherford county. North Carolina,December 25, 1852. His ancestors were of English descent and were amongthe earliest colonial settlers in the United States. His grandfather, Nathan-iel Webb, was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill, and was in the army ofthe Colonists during the entire period of the Revolutionary War. Thesubject of this sketch was educated at Ashville Academy, North Carolina,from which he graduated in 1869. In 1870 he left his native State, andcame to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he resided till May 1876, beingengaged in teaching, and devoting his time during leisure hours and hisvacations to reading law. In the above year he came to California, and. ^ ^JM^ URIAH TOWNSHIP. G35 immediately entered the law office of Hon. A. Thomas, of Santa Rosa,under whose instruction he completed his law course, and was, afterexamination in open court, admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court ofCalifornia, July 11, 1877. In August of that year he came to Ukiah, atwhich place he permanently located and immediately entered into the activepractice of his profession. He has now a numerous clientage and is doingan active business. He was employed in the defense of Brown, Gaunee andWheeler, the famous Mendocino outlaws. L. T. Day. Born in Jackson county, Missouri, July 28, 1848. Whenfive years of age he, with his parents, crossed the plains to California, andarrived at Diamond Springs in September, where the father engaged inhotel-keeping, which he conducted until the following October, when thewhole family took passage on the Yan
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