Early Life
Cooper was born August 28, 1857 in New Albany, Indiana, to Harriet A. Cooper and William Giles Cooper, a lawyer from England. He was educated in public schools in Boston and received the LLB degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1878. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk County, Massachusetts and practiced law there.
Cooper married Mary Ellen Porter October 2, 1883 in San Diego, California. In 1884 he named his estate Bonita Ranch, and the name was applied to the post office of Bonita, California. There the Coopers had four children: Alfred Cooper (born 1886), Wallace McKay Cooper (December 6, 1888 – March 1, 1966), Theodore A. Cooper (born October 28, 1889) and Alice Cooper (December 9, 1890 – 1978). He worked as an attorney for the California Southern Railroad, including arguing several cases in the Supreme Court of California.
Cooper then moved with his family to the Hawaiian Islands in 1890. In Hawaii the Coopers had three more children: Henry Ernest Cooper Jr. (born June 1904), Isabella Cooper (born 1904), and Francis J. Cooper (born 1905). They settled in the Mānoa Valley near Honolulu where Cooper Road is named for him at 21°18′39″N 157°48′55″W / 21.31083°N 157.81528°W / 21.31083; -157.81528 (Cooper Road).
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