"Son of Matthew D. & Mary Agnes ."
Was one of the most distitinguished lawyers of Tennessee and had no peer on the bench. He spent the greater portion of his pre-teen years in New Orleans where his father maintained a second home.
Tombstone reads:
A life of Perfect service rendered duties done in Charity, justice, and stainless days.
His diaries together with other family papers of his father's and brothers' were given to the Tennessee State Library by his niece, Alice Stockell.
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DEATH OF W. F. COOPER
BROTHER OF D. B. COOPER
DECEASED FORMER JUDGE
For Years He Has Resided in New York – Interment Will Be In Maury County, Tenn.
Nashville, May 7. – A special to the American from New York says that Judge Wm. F. Cooper died there tonight at the age of ninety years. He was a brother of D. B. Cooper, recently convicted here together with his son J. Cooper [1st initial illegible], of the killing of Ex-United States Senator E. W. Carmack. Judge Cooper was of a distinguished Tennessee family and was an appointed a member of the Confederate States Supreme Court which body never convened and a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was graduated from Yale in the class with William H. Evarts Alonzo Taft, father of President Taft. He was employed by the publishers to edit Daniels' Chancery Practice and was also author of Cooper's Chancery Reports, both of which volumes he dedicated to his classmate, Alonzo Taft. Judge Cooper was unmarried. He was born in Maury County, Tenn., but since his retirement from the state supreme bench a number of years ago, he made his home in New York City. The remains will be brought to Maury County for interment. [From The Comet, Johnson City, TN, Thursday, May 13, 1909, pg. #1]
Was one of the most distitinguished lawyers of Tennessee and had no peer on the bench. He spent the greater portion of his pre-teen years in New Orleans where his father maintained a second home.
Tombstone reads:
A life of Perfect service rendered duties done in Charity, justice, and stainless days.
His diaries together with other family papers of his father's and brothers' were given to the Tennessee State Library by his niece, Alice Stockell.
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DEATH OF W. F. COOPER
BROTHER OF D. B. COOPER
DECEASED FORMER JUDGE
For Years He Has Resided in New York – Interment Will Be In Maury County, Tenn.
Nashville, May 7. – A special to the American from New York says that Judge Wm. F. Cooper died there tonight at the age of ninety years. He was a brother of D. B. Cooper, recently convicted here together with his son J. Cooper [1st initial illegible], of the killing of Ex-United States Senator E. W. Carmack. Judge Cooper was of a distinguished Tennessee family and was an appointed a member of the Confederate States Supreme Court which body never convened and a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was graduated from Yale in the class with William H. Evarts Alonzo Taft, father of President Taft. He was employed by the publishers to edit Daniels' Chancery Practice and was also author of Cooper's Chancery Reports, both of which volumes he dedicated to his classmate, Alonzo Taft. Judge Cooper was unmarried. He was born in Maury County, Tenn., but since his retirement from the state supreme bench a number of years ago, he made his home in New York City. The remains will be brought to Maury County for interment. [From The Comet, Johnson City, TN, Thursday, May 13, 1909, pg. #1]
"Son of Matthew D. & Mary Agnes ."
Was one of the most distitinguished lawyers of Tennessee and had no peer on the bench. He spent the greater portion of his pre-teen years in New Orleans where his father maintained a second home.
Tombstone reads:
A life of Perfect service rendered duties done in Charity, justice, and stainless days.
His diaries together with other family papers of his father's and brothers' were given to the Tennessee State Library by his niece, Alice Stockell.
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DEATH OF W. F. COOPER
BROTHER OF D. B. COOPER
DECEASED FORMER JUDGE
For Years He Has Resided in New York – Interment Will Be In Maury County, Tenn.
Nashville, May 7. – A special to the American from New York says that Judge Wm. F. Cooper died there tonight at the age of ninety years. He was a brother of D. B. Cooper, recently convicted here together with his son J. Cooper [1st initial illegible], of the killing of Ex-United States Senator E. W. Carmack. Judge Cooper was of a distinguished Tennessee family and was an appointed a member of the Confederate States Supreme Court which body never convened and a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was graduated from Yale in the class with William H. Evarts Alonzo Taft, father of President Taft. He was employed by the publishers to edit Daniels' Chancery Practice and was also author of Cooper's Chancery Reports, both of which volumes he dedicated to his classmate, Alonzo Taft. Judge Cooper was unmarried. He was born in Maury County, Tenn., but since his retirement from the state supreme bench a number of years ago, he made his home in New York City. The remains will be brought to Maury County for interment. [From The Comet, Johnson City, TN, Thursday, May 13, 1909, pg. #1]
Was one of the most distitinguished lawyers of Tennessee and had no peer on the bench. He spent the greater portion of his pre-teen years in New Orleans where his father maintained a second home.
Tombstone reads:
A life of Perfect service rendered duties done in Charity, justice, and stainless days.
His diaries together with other family papers of his father's and brothers' were given to the Tennessee State Library by his niece, Alice Stockell.
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DEATH OF W. F. COOPER
BROTHER OF D. B. COOPER
DECEASED FORMER JUDGE
For Years He Has Resided in New York – Interment Will Be In Maury County, Tenn.
Nashville, May 7. – A special to the American from New York says that Judge Wm. F. Cooper died there tonight at the age of ninety years. He was a brother of D. B. Cooper, recently convicted here together with his son J. Cooper [1st initial illegible], of the killing of Ex-United States Senator E. W. Carmack. Judge Cooper was of a distinguished Tennessee family and was an appointed a member of the Confederate States Supreme Court which body never convened and a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He was graduated from Yale in the class with William H. Evarts Alonzo Taft, father of President Taft. He was employed by the publishers to edit Daniels' Chancery Practice and was also author of Cooper's Chancery Reports, both of which volumes he dedicated to his classmate, Alonzo Taft. Judge Cooper was unmarried. He was born in Maury County, Tenn., but since his retirement from the state supreme bench a number of years ago, he made his home in New York City. The remains will be brought to Maury County for interment. [From The Comet, Johnson City, TN, Thursday, May 13, 1909, pg. #1]
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