Mother's Cookies were found by Noah Wheatley who started the company in Oakland California

1. In 1914 Noah Wheatley, who had a newspaper stand on the corner of San Francisco’s Market and Kearney Streets, decided to purchase the rights to a recipe of some home-baked cookies from one of his customers. In 1915 Wheatley started a small one-person operation on 12th Avenue in Oakland, where he baked about 2,000 cookies each day.