COOPER, Elias Samuel, surgeon, born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1821; died in San Francisco, California, 13 October, 1862. He received a thorough medical education in Cincinnati and St. Louis, and began practice in Peoria, Illinois In 1855 he removed to San Francisco, where his eminent abilities and remarkable skill as an operating surgeon soon placed him at the head of his profession, and gained for him a high reputation among his professional brethren in the eastern states and in Europe. Dr. Cooper took an active part in the organization of the medical department of the University of the Pacific, the first medical school on the Pacific coast, and at the time of his death was professor of surgery and president of the medical faculty. He established the " San Francisco Medical Press," and was a contributor to eastern medical journals.