It all began in Helena, Montana on May 7, 1901. Frank James Cooper |
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| was the second son born to British immigrants Charles and Alice, née Brazier. (Charles Cooper would later become a Supreme Court Justice.) |  |
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| Young Frank and his older brother Arthur loved the 600-acre ranch Charles purchased forty miles out of Helena. But Alice, fearing her sons were becoming too uncivilized through their |  |
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| association with the rough-and -ready ranchhands, insisted on sending the boys to public school in England. Arthur flourished; Frank, not scholastically inclined, was miserable. |  |
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