Page:Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography - volume 3.pdf/221

 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOORAPHV. and was re-clfcted

g*'n«Tal of Mississippi, I8«)8.

was tlio

in

In 187r)-83. 1887-8.» and l!K)l-03 lie a ri'pn'sentative from .Mis»issij)pi to forty-sixth. forty-fifth, forty-fourtli, tifty-H«'C'-

tifty-tirst.

littioth,

forty-B<'v('ntii,

ond* lifty-third and lifty-sfventh congn'ssrs as a (h'inocrat.

Hooker, Edward, naval otlic<r. was born It1822. in Farmin^ton. Conn. 2.1.

JVc.

Frank

Hooker, born .Ian.

1«.

A.,

to

tlio

sea in thf nu'rchant

I

ISC.l. II.July, had a command on the blm-kade otT W ilmingttni;

in

,.

^

^^^H

^^^^^

comnuind

ot

a division of tin- Powliich command he conIn the end of the civil war. promotcti to commander: and the retired lisi. He diitl in

tomnc

tlotilla,

tiniK-d

until

in

1884 he was placed upon urn in Hrooklyn. N.V. Hooker, Edward William, clergyman, author,

was born Nov.

24.

17^4.

in

(Josheri.

In l8i»l5-62 he was pastor of the congregatiojujl church in l-'air Haven, Vi. He was the autlior of Music; and Life of He <|i<-d March ."M. 187'». Tlionuis Hooker. in Fort .tkinson. Wis. Hooker, Ellen Kelley, educator, founder,

Conn.

ti-achcr

i'oultney.

until

graduated She then

taught

in

s

h e in

scli-84 was

private

i

principal of the Ingham university of I8S4 slic opened Park Plac*In Uoy. school for hulies at Uatavia. where she 18S8-H7 slie was In taught until 1888. principal of Snin> college at Cornell university; an«l in 18!>7-U"M» was an associate of

the engineering department of the high school at Saginaw. .Midi. In |!l(io .'{ mIuwas the principal's assistant at the National park seminary of Forest (lien. Md. Since I'.MUJ she hat* Ikhmi a tutor at the National cathedral school in Wiishingtim. D.C.

was

1872-7<5

proseciit-

ing attorney: and in 1878-93 was judge of lblie lifth judicial circuit of Michigan. became «'hief justice of the supreme court by election to fill a vacancy in 1802: in lS!t:i was r»'-electetl for a term of ten years: and again in l!t03 was elected for another term I

of

t«'n

1!M3.

term ending

in

He has contributed extensively

to

years, his

.merican

literature;

He

state.

present

and

prominently

is

the public welfare of bis died -lulv 10, HHI. in .Auburn.

with

ideiititied

NY. Hooker, George Ellsworth, lawyt-r, jiunauthor, was born April 2."». 1801, in Peacham. Vt. In 1883 he graduatetl with A. 1 1, the degre*' of from Amherst college:

iialist.

188.'>

in

graduated

with the degree of LL. H. from Columbia law school:

f

in

l8."il.

supt-rin-

tendent of schools at In Charlotte. Mich. l8rt!»-73 he was a justice of the peace; in

i

was

lsr»7-»»!»

in

was county

edu(-ational w oi k; w a H govenn->s n I84tl:

to

Mich.: and

was born May 2;{. H'M. in Shorehani. 't. iving her education, sue fnt«-red After n

the ))ublic schools in 1847-48: suhsi-quently continuing iter education In Troy conference aca<lemv at

Conn.

then Ohio: Charlotte.

Bryan,

moved

niariii*-,

commanding a shi|i twi'nty-thr«'iwhen years of a^»*. II*' was one i)f tile earli<st for the volunteers naval service in tln' civil war. and was appointed acting niast<

was He

jurist,

received a thorough education in the public schools an«l collegeK of his native stat<'; and was duly admitted to In I8li.)-U«i the bar. he practiced law in

I

was bred

lawyer,

1844, in Hartford.

and

and

18!)0

in

the with degn-e of H.I), friun Yale divinity school. he prae In l88.')-87

graduated

ticed

law

New

in

York City; has traveled

extensivelv

Kurope; and

was an

in

in

18!M)-

writer on the Cliicago Daily Tribiuu*. Since its organization in 11U13 he has been secretary of the City club of Cliicag<». III. He lias made a special study of municijial conditions: ami is the author of valuable contributions «)n that siibject to Anu'rican Ii1(>2

l!1(l.'t-(»0

eclitorial

literature.

Hooker, Herman, clergyman, bookseller, was born in 1804 in Poultney. V't. He was an epis«-opal clergyman: and retire«l from the ministry and became a bookseller in Phihulelphia. He was the author of Family Hook of iVvotion; The Cses of -Adversity: Thoughts and Maxims; The Pori'utlior,

tion of the S(uil: Popular Infidelity; niid Tlie Christian Life a Life of Faith. He died .luly 2."». ISCm, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Hooker, Horace, clergyman, author, was born in I7!'3 in Berlin, ("onn. He was for more than twenty years s«'cretary of the Connecticut niissionarv societv: and for