Viewing J. Fletcher Williams: "Memoir of Judge David Cooper." (1870s)J. Fletcher Williams: "Memoir of Judge David Cooper." (1870s)David Cooper served as associate justice on the territorial supreme court from 1849 to 1853. Sometime after Cooper's death "during the early part of 1876," J. Fletcher Williams, a newspaper reporter, editor and later secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society, wrote a short "memoir" of him. It does not appear to have been published previously. |