Hooker, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born in 1586 in England. He was a puritan clergyman who came to America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge, then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford. theologian of great influence in his century, he was the author of Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption; and The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. He died July 7, 1647, in Hartford, Conn.