The Nevada-class battleship USS Oklahoma was built by New York Shipbuilding Corporation and was commissioned in 1916. As part of the first U.S. Navy class of oil-burning dreadnoughts, the warship had a greater range than previous battleships.
Thomas Ross Cooley, born in Grass Valley on June 26, 1893, is interred at the Monticello Graveyard in Virginia with Thomas Jefferson and 280 others, including his wife Adelaide Cooley’s