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Hooker, Herman – Hooper, John

Hooker, Herman

clergyman, author, was born in 1804 in Poultney, Vt. He was an episcopal clergyman who retired from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. He was the author of Family Book of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of the Soul; Popular Infidelity; and The Christian Life a Life of Faith. He died July 25, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hooker, Horace

clergyman, author, was born in 1793 in Berlin, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Hartford, and the author of Youth's Book of Natural Theology; and Bible History.

He died Dec. 17, 1864, in Hartford, Conn.

HOOKER, MRS. ISABELLA (BEECH- ER), philanthropist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1822, in Litchfield, Conn. She is a philanthropist of Hartford, prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman suffrage, and the author of Womanhood:

Its Sanctities and Fidelities.

Hooker, Joseph

soldier, was born Nov. 13, 1814, in Hadley, Mass. He succeeded Burnside as a union general in the army of the Potomac, in 1863, and for his bravery was called Fighting Joe Hooker, an epithet he was never well pleased with.

He was retired from active service by his own request in 1868, retaining the full rank of major-general. He died Oct. 31, 1879, in Garden City, N. Y.; and his death was sincerely mourned.

Hooker, Noadiah

farmer, soldier, state legislator, was born in 1736. He ✓ was distinguished in the course of his long life as an officer in the revolutionary war; as a member of the legislature, and as a magistrate. He died June 3, 1823, in Farmington, Conn.

Hooker, Samuel

clergyman, was born in 1632. He was ordained pastor of the church in Farmington, Conn., in 1661.

He was a fellow of Harvard, and in 1662 was one of a committee of four to treat with New Haven in reference to a union with Connecticut. He died Nov. 6, 1697.

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Hooker, Warren Brewster

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1856, in Perrysburg, N. Y. He has always lived in New York state except two years spent in Tacoma, Wash., practicing law, and has been special surrogate of Chautauqua county. He has been supervisor of Fredonia two terms, and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He has also attained prominence as a lawyer in Fredonia, N. Y.

Hooks, Charles

state representative, congressman, was born in Bertie county, N. C. He served for many years in the North Carolina legislature; was a representative in congress during the years 1816 and 1817, and from 1819 to 1825. He subsequently removed to Alabama, where he died in 1851.

Hooper, Benjamin S

merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born March 6, 1835, in Buckingham county, Va.

He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-eighth congress.

Hooper, Edward

engraver, was born May 24, 1829, in England. From 1850 till his death he was a member of the wood-engraving firm of Bobbett and Hooper, and produced several water-colors that were remarkable for their accuracy of drawing and harmony of color. He died Dec. 13, 1870, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Hooper, Edward James

agriculturist, author, was born in 1803 in England. He was a once prominent agriculturist in the west who published a Dictionary of Agriculture.

Hooper, John

botanist, was born in 1802 in England. He came to the United States in 1839, and devoted himself to natural science. He made many researches in the study of marine algae, of which he accumulated a valuable collection.

This he bequeathed to the Long Island Historical society, of which he was a charter member. He died April 26, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.