F. M. Cooley

Candidate Biography:

Francis Morgan Cooley
Born: January 18, 1835 in New York
Married: Adeline Hickok, Alice Kingsbury
Children: Charles, Walter, Anna, Frank, Earl, Sarah, Verdenel and Edmund
Military Service: ARMY (Civil War)
Died: November 24, 1890 in San Francisco, CA

• Be Fruitful and Multiply: Cooley had eight children.
• "He was at Alexandria in 1861 and saw the killing of Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House by the enraged Jackson..." [Source: FindAGrave]
• Cooley's regiment fought in the battles of the Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spotsylvania, Bethesda Church, and Cold Harbor.

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)