COOPER, Fernando Antonio "Martin"

Abt 1810 - 1843  (~ 33 years)

• Name	COOPER, Fernando Antonio "Martin"
  Nickname	Martin
  Gender	Male
  Born	Abt. 1810	Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
  	FIRST NAME - According to his baptism record, Martin was his legal name
  Christened	08 Oct 1834	Mission La Purisima Concepcion, Alta California   [1, 2]
  Biography	25 Jul 1835	Mission San Luis Obispo, Alta California   [3]
  	Father Abella complains to governor regarding an incident involving American Martin Cooper and schoolmaster Domingo Amador.
  Occupation	1843	Santa Barbara Presidio, Alta California
  	Death record states occupation: el suertisto (rough translation - one who takes away the evil eye)
  Died	01 Jun 1843	Rancho Dos Pueblos, Goleta, California   [4]
  	Cause: Drowning
  Buried	03 Jun 1843	Santa Barbara Presidio, Alta California   [5]
  Person ID	I15776	1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2014

  
  

  Father	COOPER, Enrico,   b. Bef. 1790
  Mother	ARISON, Maria,   b. Bef. 1795
  Family ID	F5118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	INDIA MASTA, Ana Maria,   b. 28 Jul 1799, San Luis Obispo, Alta California ,   d. Abt. 4 Dec 1850, San Luis Obispo County, California  (Age 51 years)
  Married	Type: cannot locate a marriage record
  Children	+ 1. COOPER, Maria del "Rosario" Yldefonsa,   b. 25 Mar 1841, San Luis Obispo, Alta California ,   d. 15 Jun 1917, Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, California  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2014
  Family ID	F5117	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt. 1810 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania Christened - 08 Oct 1834 - Mission La Purisima Concepcion, Alta California Biography - Father Abella complains to governor regarding an incident involving American Martin Cooper and schoolmaster Domingo Amador. - 25 Jul 1835 - Mission San Luis Obispo, Alta California Occupation - Death record states occupation: el suertisto (rough translation - one who takes away the evil eye) - 1843 - Santa Barbara Presidio, Alta California Died - Cause: Drowning - 01 Jun 1843 - Rancho Dos Pueblos, Goleta, California Buried - 03 Jun 1843 - Santa Barbara Presidio, Alta California  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S010] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1770-1855_Bap, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org), http://missions.huntington.org/BaptismalData.aspx?ID=73210. BAPTISM Msn. La Purisima Concepcion #3283) 8 Oct 1834- FERNANDO ANTONIO MARTIN COOPER, 24 anos, Origin: Estados Unidos del Norte de America nacido en la ciudad de Pittsburgh de Enrico Cooper y Maria [unstated], Protestantes. Padrino: Fernando Tico. Moreno [S037] Alta Cal Msn Bk #21_1789-1842_La Pur_Bap, Mission La Purisima Concepcion, (Thomas Workman Temple III). BAPTISM #3283) Oct 8, 1834 - by Fr. Marcos Antonio de Vitoria OFM COOPER, FERNANDO ANTONIO MARTIN COOPER, age 24 years, native of the United States of the North America, born in Pittsburgh, son of Enrico Cooper and Maria Arison of the Protestant sect. Baptized conditionally and he stated he was single of the legal name of Martin. Padrino: Fernando Tico, resident of the Presidio of Santa Barbara and widower of the deceased Maria Lopes.(1835 at S.L.O. and in Larkins Books 35-7) [S249] BK-The San Luis Obispo District, 1830 - 1850, Leonard Rudolph Blomquist; 1941, (http://www.heritageshared.org/library/docs/CaliforniaInTransition_SLODistrict_1830-1850_LeonardRBlomquist_1941.pdf), page 20-21/116, 25 Jul 1835. 1835 - MISSION SAN LUIS OBISPO - COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST AMERICAN MARTIN COOPER AND SCHOOLMASTER DOMINGO AMADOR PAGE 20 "Early in January, Padre Abella was notified by the governor that Domingo Amador had been appointed schoolmaster of San Luis with a salary of fifteen dollars a month, to be paid in goods if the mission had no money... PAGE 21 On July 25 Padre Abella wrote to the governor from San Miguel accusing the schoolmaster and an American, Martin Cooper, who is otherwise unidentified, of causing trouble among the neophytes by their immoral conduct and describing the disturbance which they had created on the previous day. The schoolmaster was said to have illicit relations with a neophyte girl from Rancho Santa Margarita, whose parents had brought her to San Luis. The schoolmaster was also accused of not attending church services, of not going in the procession on Corpus Christi Day, and in general of setting a bad example to the children. Cooper was conducting himself no better, for he was annoying a young married woman, named Margarita, which had caused the padre to give her and her husband, Narciso, a room in the mission so they could avoid the American. Cooper and Amador shared the same house, which had become a center of immorality. There aguardiente was sold so that nearly all of the good serving women of the mission became drunk, and when something happened to them they unashamedly said, "Padre, I was drunk and did not know what was done." Two nights before, the alcalde, Serafin was knifed by Cooper when near midnight Amador and the latter were searching for Margarita. On the following day Cooper took Margarita from her room in the mission and brought her to the schoolmaster's house. Padre Abella, learning of this, armed two neophytes with guns and entered the house, where he found Cooper and Amador. To the latter he gave instructions that he should close the school, while Cooper was told to go to some other place to carry on his scandalous acts. This Cooper refused to do, and as the priest was going out the door Cooper seized his mantle and almost threw him to the floor. Finally, Padre Abella burst out the door, and seeking the aid of Padre Arroyo, reached the corredor, where Cooper followed him, taking a pistol out of his belt and threatening Padre Abella with it. The two priests went together to Padre Arroyo's room and ordered the doors closed. The Indians congregated outside the door, where they were joined by Amador, now very drunk. For nearly two hours he stood at the window of the room, shouting insanely, saying he was a Peruvian and speaking ill of the deceased king, of the queen, of Mexicans and Spaniards, and of the mountain men. In his tirade he included the elderly priest himself, accusing him of immoral conduct, but saying nothing of Padre Arroyo. After this occurrence, Padre Abella took himself off to San Miguel, and according to his letter was determined not to return to San Luis until the two men should have been banished from the place." [S248] Bk-The John Peabody Harrington Collection, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, (http://anthropology.si.edu/naa/harrington/index.html). DEATH - Circumstances as recorded in the John Peabody Harrington papers. Handwritten notes regarding Maria Rosario Cooper's father, Fernando Martin Cooper, R = Rosario: "R's father used to drink. Was surgeon. He was drowned at Dos Pueblos*. He got drunk at saloon at Den's place at Dos Pueblos. They gave him a drink as to cure him and it made him crazy." *Note: Rancho Dos Pueblos was Mexican land grant in present day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Nicolas A. Den. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Dos_Pueblos [S011] Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1770-1855_Bur, Early California Population Project, (huntington.org), http://missions.huntington.org/DeathData.aspx?ID=543. BURIAL Santa Barbara Presidio Cemetery #505) 3 Jun 1843- N. CUPER [COOPER], Death Date: 1 Jun 1843, Death Place: a poca distancia del rancho de Jose Dolores Ortega - [translation: a little distance from the ranch of Jose Dolores Ortega]*, Cause of Death: se encontro ahogado en la playa...resulto su muerte de un exceso de demencia - [translation: found drowned on the beach ... his death resulted from an excess of dementia]. Occupation: el suertista. Duran Notes: Padre notes that "segun la declaracion del Alcalde de este Presidio que me hizo ayer noche, resulto su muerte de un exceso de demencia que le acometio dos dias antes y se habia desparecido de dicho rancho. Baxo esta declaracion lo admiti a la sepultura sagrada"----AMR 12/2003 [Rough translation: Father notes that "according to the statement by the Mayor of this Presidio [Santa Barbara-JSR] that he gave me last night, his death resulted from an excess of dementia that he undertook two days before and had disappeared from the ranch. Under this statement as admitted to the sacred burial"] *Jose Dolores Ortega's ranch called the Rancho Canada del Corral. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Cañada_del_Corral