Background
Smith, Henry Cooper was born on August 3, 1862 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Lucien Story and Mary Eliza (Cooper) Smith.
Smith, Henry Cooper was born on August 3, 1862 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Lucien Story and Mary Eliza (Cooper) Smith.
Graduated from the high school, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1879. Read law with Sale & Pierce, and Norcross & Dunwiddie, Janesville.
Admitted to bar, 1885. Deputy clerk Circuit Court of Rock Company, Wisconsin, 1885. Associated in practice with Ogden H. Feters and Malcolm G. Jeffris, Janesville, 1885-1888.
Removed to Montana, 1888.
Judge 1st Judicial District, Company of Lewis and Clark, Montana, 1896-1906. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana, 1906-December 31, 1912.
Republican candidate for United States senator, 1912.
Member Montana State Bar Association President Blue Cloud Mining Company. Club: Lambs (Helena).
Married Frances Woodruff, of Janesville, Wisconsin, August 21, 1889.