Henry Ernest Cooper Sr.
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Henry Ernest Cooper (28 August 1857 - 15 May 1929) was son of Harriet A.; and William Giles Cooper, a lawyer from England. He was educated in common schools, and received the LLB degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1878.
He was born in in New Albany, Indiana and he practiced law in Boston for a while, then moved with his family to Hawaii about 1890. He quickly got involved in Hawaiian politics. It was Cooper who read the 1893 proclamation abolishing monarchy in Hawaii; he negotiated with the US on annexation. In 1893 he was Chair of the important Committee of Public Safefy during the Hawaiian Revolution; Advisory Council Provincial Government; 1893-1895 Judge Circuit Court; 1895-1899 Minister of Foreign Affairs; 1890 Acting President of Hawaii; 1899 Minister of Public Instruction; 1899-1900 Attorney General of Hawaii; 1900 Ad Interim-Minister of Interior, Finance, Board of Health. From 1900 to 1903 he served as Secretary of the new Territory of Hawaii, appointed by President McKinley. By a series of transactions between 1888-1911, he purchased Palmyra Island.
In his later years he practiced law in Honolulu and was active in Masonic affairs. Cooper married Mary E. Porter in 1883, and had the following children: Alfred 1886 CA; Wallace McKay 1888 CA; Theodore A. 1889 CA; Alice 1890 CA; Henry Ernest Cooper; June 1904 HI; Isabella 1904 HI; Francis J. 1905 HI. He died in Honolulu, 15 May 1929. Sources for this information are primarily Who Was Who v.1, and the US censuses of 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920.
