Life Chronology
Cooper James Grahm (1830-1902)
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--born in New York, on 19 June 1830.
--1851: M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
--1851-1853: physician at New York City Hospital
--1853-1855: works as physician and naturalist in Washington Territory for the Pacific
                      Railroad Survey Expedition
--1856: practices medicine in Orange, New Jersey
--1856-1861: travels/collects in various U. S. locations
--1858: made a member of the New York Lycaeum
--1859: publishes "On the Distribution of the Forests and Trees of North America,
            with Notes on Its Physical Geography" in the Smithsonian Institution Annual
            Report for 1858
--1861-1874: collects natural history specimens along the West Coast and in
                      California and the Colorado Valley
--1862: moves to Oakland, CA
--1864-1865: serves as surgeon in the waning months of the Civil War
--1866-1890: works as physician in several California locations
--1867: publishes his Geographical Catalogue of the Mollusca Found West of the Rocky
             Mountains
--1870: publishes "The Fauna of California and Its Geographical Distribution" in the
            Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
--1871-1875: resides in Ventura County, CA
--1875: moves to Haywards, CA
--1893: Cooper Ornithological Club organized in his honor
--1894: publishes his Catalogue of Californian Fossils
--dies in Haywards, CA, on 19 July 1902.

Additional Information:

--The Nautilus 16(7) (1902): 73-75.
--Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists (1997).
--James Graham Cooper, Pioneer Western Naturalist (1982).
--Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 4 (1930).
--American National Biography, Vol. 5 (1999).
--The Condor 88(3) (1986): 402-403.
--Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club 1(1) (1899): 1-5.

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