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studied medicine under Dr. Eli Ives, and attended lectures at Yale Medical college, where he re- ceived the degree of M.D. in 1823. He settled in practice in Ne%v Haven and rose to eminence both as physician and surgeon. He was married in 1823 to Eliza, daughter of Nathan Beers. He was professor of anatomy and physiology at Yale, 1838-63. and also served as dean of the faculty of the medical school. He was a member of the American Medical association, of the Connecticut Medical society, of the New Haven City Medical association and of the Connecticut Hospital so- ciety, of which last lie was elected a director and physician and surgeon in 1832. Among his note- worthy essays are: Intestinal Auscultation (1849); Diet for the Sick (1850). He died in New Haven. Conn.. March 19. 1863.

HOOKER, Charles Edward, representative, was born at Union. S.C., in 1^2."): son of Zadock andEnielia (Allen) Hooker: grandson of Edward Hooker, and of Charles and Susan Allen, and a descendant of Edward Hooker, a native of Eng- land, who settled in Hagerstowu, Md., and after- ward removed to South Carolina. Charles Allen was a soldier in the American army during the Revolution. Charles Edward Hooker was grad- uated at Harvard. LL.B., in 1846, aiid practised at Jackson, Miss. He was district attorney in IS.ie, and a representative in the Mississippi legisla- ture. 1860. from which he resigned in 1861 to enter the Confederate arm}'. He was wounded in the defence of Vicksburg, losing his left arm, was promoted colonel of cavalry and assigned to duty on the military court attached to General Polk's command. He was elected attorney-general of the state in 1865. and re-elected in 1868, but in common with other civil officers was not allowed to serve by decree of the militarj' government. He was one of the three lawyers appointed by the state of Mississippi to defend Jefferson Davis, in- dicted in the U.S. court for treason, and visited Charles O'Conor in New York to prepare for the trial. He was a representative in the 44th-48th congresses, 187.5-83; in the 50th-53d congresses, 1887-95. and was elected to the 57th congress, 1901-03. He is the autlior of: Confederate Mili- tary History of Mississippi (1900).

HOOKER, Edward, naval officer, was born in Farinington. Conn., Dec. 25, 1822; son of Edward and ElisaVjeth (Daggett) Hooker; grandson of Col. Noadiah Hooker, of Revolutionaiy service; great-grandson of Capt. Joseph Hooker (1705- 1764), and greats-grandson of the Rev. Tliomas Hooker, of Chelmsford, England, who landed in Boston, Mass.. in 16.S3, and in Hartford, Conn., in 1636; and also a descendant of Capt. Thomas Willett. first mayor of New York city. 1665. He attendeil Farmington academy 1833-.36; entered the merchant marine service in 1836, transfer-

ring liis services to the U.S. navy as acting mas- ter, July 19, 1861. He was navigator on the gun- boat Louisiana, of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, and was severely wouii(l('<l. Oct. 5, 1!^61, the first officer of his grade wounded in the war. This gunboat accompanied the

Burnside expedition, and in the absence of the commanding of- ficer, he commanded the vessel in the en- gagement at Wash- ington, N.C., Sept. 5, 1862, and was pro- moted acting volun- teer lieutenant for gallant conduct in this action, liis com- mission dating from Sept. 5, 1862. In 1863 he commanded the steamer Victoria, and with her captured the brig Minna and the steamer Nicholai I. of AVilmington, N.C.; was in command of a di- vision of the Potomac flotilla, on Rappahannock river, Va., 1863-65, and during the advance of Grant's army he commanded the boats that cleared the river of torjjedoes planted b}- the Con- federates, and opened it for the transportation of supplies to the army, and was then promoted acting volunteer lieutenant-commander. He was naval store keeper at Brooklyn, N.Y., 1865- 67. He commanded the store-ship Idaho, 1867- 69, upon the Asiatic station, and when on that station he was transferred to the regular navy and appointed lieutenant, March 12, 1868, and lieutenant-commander, Dec. 18, 1868. He was inspector of j-ards and docks, U.S. navy-yard, Brooklyn, 1870-73; senior line officer, naval sta- tion, League Island, 1873-75; assistant lighthouse inspector, 8d district, 187.5-77, and second line officer at the Naval Home. Philadelphia, 1877- 84; was promoted commander, Feb. 9, 1884, and was placp<l on the retired list. Dec. 25, 1884. He then 111.1(1. • Ills home in Brooklyn, N.Y,

HOOKER, Edward William, clergyman, was born in Goshen, Conn., Nov. 24, 1794; son of the Rev. Asahel and Pliebe (Edwards) Hooker; grandson of Asahel and Anne (Parmalee) Hooker, of Bristol. Conn., and a descendant from the Rev. Thomas Hooker, ami from Capt. Thomas AVillett. first mayor of the city of New York, 1665. He was graduated at Middlebury, A.B., 1814: A.M., 1817, and at Andover Theological seminar}' in 1817. He was jiastor of the Congre- gational church. Green's Farms, Conn., 1821-29; editor of the Journal of Humanity, Andover, and general agent of the American Temperance