
GRADUATES CLASS OF 1903 49 

Albert W. Cooper 
Business address, 605-607 Columbia Building, Spokane, Wash. 
Residence, 1418 South Maple Street, Spokane, Wash. 
4 Akron Street, Boston, Mass. 
Albert Williams Cooper was born March 10, 1879, in Denver, Colo., 
the son of Albert Cooper (deceased), a director and officer in a number 
of business corporations, and Charlotte Eliza (Williams) Cooper. He 
is the grandson on his father’s side of Henry Cooper and Sarah (Talpey) 
Cooper, and on his mother’s side of Rev. Milton T. Williams and 
Charlotte (Henderson) Williams. He has one brother, Edgar Bailey 
Cooper, B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’05, and_one sister, 
Gertrude May (Cooper) Dean, B.A. Smith College ’06. 
He was prepared at the Roxbury Latin School and in roor received the 
degree of B.A. at Harvard, where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi. 
He was married June 25, 1908, in Boston, Mass., to Miss Gertrude Ellen 
Homans of Boston, Mass., daughter of George Homans and Elizabeth A. 
Homans. 
After graduation from the Yale Forest School, Cooper held 
various positions in the United States Forest Service, being 
engaged on working plans in Minnesota and Texas, and on 
commercial plans in California. He was at one time super- 
intendent of woodlands for the Delaware & Hudson Railroad 
Company, and later chief of silviculture, District 1, in the 
Service. Since January 1, 1910, he has been secretary of the 
Western Pine Manufacturers Association of Spokane, Wash. 
Cooper is a Unitarian. He is a member of the Inland Club 
and University Club of Spokane and the Century Club of 
Washington, D. C. 
He has published: Sugar and yellow pine in California, Bull. 
U. S. Forest Service; A plan for fire protection at McCloud, 
Calif., Circ. U. S. Forest Service. 
Richard T. Fisher 
Business address, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 
Residence, Petersham, Mass. 
Richard Thornton Fisher was born November 9, 1876, in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., the son of Edward Thornton Fisher, B.A. Harvard ’56 and M.A. 
68, and Ellen Bowditch (Thayer) Fisher. His father, the son of George 
Fisher, a lawyer and president of the North Western Fire and Marine 
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