Hooker, Edward – Hooper, William
Hooker, Edward
naval officer, was born Dec. 25, 1822, in Farmington, Conn.
He was bred to the sea in the merchant marine, commanding a ship when twentythree years of age.
He was one of the earliest volunteers for the naval service in the civil war, and was appointed acting master in July, 1861. His first service was in the gunboat Louisiana. He subsequently commanded the blockade off Wilmington, and later was in command of a division of the Potomac flotilla, in which command he continued until the end of the war. After the war closed he was at the New York navy yard; then took the storeship Idaho to the Asiatic squadron, and while there was transferred from the volunteer to the regular navy list. He became lieutenant, lieutenant-commander, and in 1884 was promoted to commander; and the same year was placed upon the retired list by operation of law.
Hooker, Edward William
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 24, 1794, in Goshen, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Vermont and the author of Music; and Life of Thomas Hooker. He died March 31, 1875, in Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Hooker, Ellen Kelley
educator, was born May 23, 1833, in Shoreham, Vt.
After receiving her education, she entered educational work; was governess in 1846; a teacher in the public schools in 1847-48; subsequently continuing her education in Troy Conference academy at Poultney, until she graduated in 1851.
She then taught in private schools and academies in New York state and Wisconsin. For ten years she filled the chair of English in the Le Roy Collegiate institute, New York, and during 1879-84 was principal of the Ingham university of Le Roy. In 1884 she opened Park Place school for ladies at Batavia, and since 1888 has been principal of the Sage college of Cornell university.
Hooker, Frank A
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 16, 1844, in Hartford, Conn.
In 1878 he was appointed judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Michigan; became chief justice of the supreme court, and in 1893 was re-elected for a term of ten years.
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, 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.
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.
Hooker, Worthington
educator, physician, author, was born March 3, 1803, in Springfield, Mass. He was a physician of Norwich, Conn., who was professor of medicine at Yale university in 1852-67, and the author of Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homeopathy; Human Physiology for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child's Book of Nature; Child's Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Science for the School and Family; and The Medical Profession and the Community. He died Nov. 6, 1867, in New Haven, Conn.
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.
Hooper, Johnson
lawyer, was born about 1815 in North Carolina. He was a lawyer of Alabama, and the author of Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; and Widow Rugby's Husband, and Other Alabama Tales. He died in 1863 in Alabama. was
Hooper, Lucy
author, poet, was born Feb. 4, 1816, in Newburyport, Mass. She was a poet of much promise whose home in Brooklyn, and the author of Scenes from Real Life, a collection of prose sketches, which appeared during her lifetime, and her complete poems in 1848.
Hooper, Mrs. Lucy Hamilton
(JONES), author, poet, was born Jan. 20, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a Philadelphia author who lived in Europe after 1870, and was Paris correspondent for several American papers, and the author of Poems, with translations from the German; Under the Tri-Color, a novel; and The Tsar's Window, a novel.
Hooper, Robert Lettice
jurist.
He was chief justice of New Jersey from 1724 till 1728, and again from 1729 till his death in 1739. He resided in Perth Amboy and was a warden in St. Peter's church.
Hooper, Samuel
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1808, in Marblehead, Mass. In 1851 he was elected to the state house of representatives, served three years, and declined a re-election. In 1857 he was elected to the state senate, and declined to serve a second term. In 1861 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to fill a vacancy in the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirtyeighth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, fortysecond and forty-third congresses. He died Feb. 13, 1875, in Washington.
Hooper, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1702 in Scotland. In 1747 he was appointed rector of Trinity church of Boston, which post he occupied till his death. He published several sermons, including one with the title The Apostles neither Impostors nor Enthusiasts. He died April 14, 1767, in Boston, Mass.