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Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society: Minnesota biographies, 1655-1912 by Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap
Call Number: Special Collections Room F 601 .M66 vol. 14
Publication Date: 1912
Link goes to page with entry on David Cooper.
Fifty years in the Northwest : With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents and notes by William H.C. Folsom
Publication Date: 1888
See also page 569
Minnesota in Three Centuries, 1655-1908 by Frank R. Holmes
Call Number: Special Collections F 606 .M664 1908 4 Vols.
Publication Date: 1908
Link goes to page on David Cooper.
History of the Bench and Bar of Minnesota by Hiram Stevens
Publication Date: 1904
Link goes to section on the Territorial Court
The Law, Courts, and Lawyers in the Frontier Days of Minnesota: An Informal Legal History of the Years 1835 to 1865 by Robert J. Sheran & Timothy J. Baland
Call Number: Special Collection KFM 5908 .S53 1976
Publication Date: 1976
Letters, received, 1857, 1858
Call Number: Gale Family Library at the Minnesota Historical Society
Two manuscript letters written to one of the first associate justices of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court (1850-1953).
The first letter (March 15, 1857) is from M. A. Parker of Marietta (Penn.) and pertains to Cooper's assistance in a legal case. The other letter (Aug. 12, 1858) was written by Cooper's brother in Howell (Mich.) and describes his poor health, farming troubles, and the possible sale of his farm.
Pen pictures of St. Paul, Minnesota, and biographical sketches of old settlers : from the earliest settlement of the city, up to and including the year 1857 by T.M. Newson
Publication Date: 1886
The Supreme Court of Minnesota by Charles B. Elliott
Publication Date: 1892
Link goes to page describing David Cooper.
Territorial Bench of Minnesota, Parts I, II, & III by Isaac Atwater
Call Number: Main KF354.M6 T47 1888
Publication Date: 1887
Published in Magazine of Western History, Volume 7

Supplement, 17 MEDICO-LEGAL J. 1 (1899).
The Supreme Court of Minnesota - Minnesota Legal History Project
as originally appeared in the Medico-Legal Journal, 1899
Documents Regarding the Nominations, Confirmations... Terms of the Ten Justices who Served on the Supreme Court of Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858 Part Two-A Documents RE: Chief Justice Aaron Goodrich and Associate Justice David Cooper
Minnesota Land Purchases - General Land Office Records - Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Nevada Land Purchases - General Land Office Records - Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Walter Trenerry, The Minnesota Rebellion Act of 1862; a Legal Dilemma of the Civil War, 35 Minnesota History,1 (issue 1, March 1956)
Mark Diedrich, Chief Hole-in-the-Day and the 1862 Chippewa Disturbance: A Reappraisal, 50 Minnesota History 193 (issue 5, Spring 1987)
Jane Lamm Carroll, Good Times, eh? : Minnesota's Territorial Newspapers, 56 Minnesota History 222 (issue 4, Winter 1998-99)
See page 228 for the quote that inspired the fight between Justice Cooper's nephew and James Goodhue, which lead to the death of Joseph Cooper.

Combs v. Cooper, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota Vol. 5, p.254
Call Number: Getting Started Room KFM5445 .A2
Publication Date: 1862
Cooper v. Breckenridge, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota , Vol. 11, p.341
Call Number: Getting Started Room KFM5445 .A2
Publication Date: 1867

Newspaper Articles

The New Hampshire Patriot... Minnesota Pioneer, May 26, 1849, p.2, column 2
A Proclamation by Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota Pioneer, June 14, 1849, p.2, column 1
Judicial Notice, Minnesota Pioneer, January 23, 1850, p.3, column 4
Absentee Office Holders, Minnesota Pioneer, January 16, 1851, p.2, column 1
The inflammatory article written by James Goodhue.
The account of the late unfortunate... Minnesota Pioneer, Jan. 23, 1851, p.2, column 6
Description of the fight between Goodhue and Cooper.
List of Unpaid Taxes on Real Estate in Washington County, Minnesota Pioneer, March 13, 1852, p.3, column 2
Judge Cooper, Weekly Minnesotian, May 12, 1855, p.4, column 1
Married, Weekly Minnesotian, Oct. 6, 1855, p.3, column 4
Republican Convention, Weekly Minnesotian, Sept. 12, 1857, p.2, column 4
A Humiliating Back-Out! -- A Glorious Meeting!, Stillwater Messenger, Oct. 20, 1857, p.2, column 3
Weekly Minnesotian, March 20, 1858, p.2, column 5
Republican Camp in Trouble, Chatfield Democrat, Feb. 5, 1859, p.3, column 1
John P. Owens and his Dishonor, Saint Paul Weekly Minnesotian, Feb. 5, 1859, p.4, column 1
Also on this page is an advertisement for the law firm Cooper & Jennison
Judge Cooper, Chatfield Democrat, February 5, 1859, p.3, column 1.
Reporting Judge Cooper’s return from Washington, and describing various current legislative matters of concern to Minnesota in which he had taken part.
Why Ramsey did not Contest, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat, Sept. 9, 1859, p.3, column 4
Judge Cooper upon Mr. Baasen, Saint Paul Weekly Minnesotian, Sept. 10, 1859, p.2, column 3
Distinguished Speakers, Wabashaw County Herald, Sept. 10, 1859, p.3, column 1
George L. Becker vs. David Cooper, Hokah Chief, Sept. 27, 1859, p.2, column 2
An Old School Gentleman, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat, Oct. 7, 1859, p.4, column 6
United States Senator, Wabashaw County Herald, Dec. 3, 1859, p.2, column 1
Proceedings of the Republican State Convention, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat, Sept. 13, 1861, p.6, column 1
The Chippewa Emeute, Saint Paul Daily Press, Sept. 14, 1862, p.1, column 1
The Chippewa Difficulties, Stillwater Messenger, Sept. 16, 1862, p.2, column 5
A Recommendation, Gold Hill Daily News, September 5, 1864, p.2, column 2.
Recommending the appointment of David Cooper as a judge in Nevada during the course of the Nevada state constitutional convention.
The Chippewa Embassy, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat, Sept. 26, 1862, p.6, column 1
Brigadier General [James] Cooper, Saint Paul Daily Press, April 5, 1863, p.1, column 2
We find in our Nevada..., Saint Paul Press, Jan. 11, 1865, p.1, column 1
Cooper had moved to Nevada the previous Spring (1864).
Probate Court, Daily Globe, Jan. 23, 1879, p.2, column 6
"Application for license to sell real estate to pay debts in the estate of David Cooper."
Probate Court, Daily Globe, May 15, 1879, p.3, column 2
Judge David Cooper, St. Paul Daily Globe, May 11, 1884, p.2, column 2.
Pen Pictures - Judge David Cooper, St. Paul Daily Globe, May 11, 1884, p.9, column 2
The State Historical Library, Saint Paul Globe, Sept. 22, 1901, p.3, column 1
Both Shot to Kill, Saint Paul Globe, Jan. 16, 1902, p.2, column 6
Somewhat distorted retelling of the Cooper/Goodhue fight, substituting Judge Cooper himself in for his nephew who had actually attacked Goodhue.
Prominent Pioneer Duelists, Stillwater Messenger, February 1, 1902, p.5, column 1.
Describes the public fight, 50 years earlier, between Judge Cooper’s brother and St. Paul Pioneer editor James Goodhue who had published a defamatory article about Judge Cooper the day before.
Supreme Court of Minnesota, Saint Paul Globe, March 2, 1902, p.22
History of the Bench and Bar, Minneapolis Journal, Silver Anniversary Ed., Nov. 26, 1903, p.90

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