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society, 1829-32; pastor at Bennington, Vt., 1832-44; professor of rhetoric and ecclesiastical history at the East Windsor Theological semi- nary, 1844-48, and pastor at South Windsor, Conn., 1849-56, and Fair Haven, Vt., 1856-62. He was trustee of 3Iiddlebury college, 1834-44; and received the degree of D.D. from Williams in 1840. He is the author of: A Plea for Sacred Mmic; A Memoir of Mrs. S. L. H. Smith (1845); The Life of Thomas Hooker (1849). He died in Fort Atkinson, AVis., Marcli 81, 1875.

HOOKER, Ellen Kelley, educator, was born at Shoreham, Vt., May 23, 1833; daughter of George Wing and Sibbel Dow (Sweat) Kelley; grand- daughter of Eliphalet and Prudence (Mathewson) Kelley, and of Theophilus and Lydia (Dow) Sweat, and great-granddaughter of Joseph Kelley, a justice of the peace in Smithfield, R.I. Her grandmother, Prudence(Mathewson)Kelly, wasa preacher of the Society of Friends. Her father, George Wing Kelley, was a leading Abolitionist, and his house was an open station for the under- ground railroad. Slie was graduated from Troy Conference academy, Poultney, Vt., in 1852; taught scliool in Vermont, 1848-52, and became assistant principal of a girls' school at Chatham, N.Y., in 1853. She was married at Pittsford, Vt., to Dr. Samuel L. Hooker, a lineal descendant of Thomas Hooker, and in 1855 removed with him to Dane count}-. Wis., where they conducted a large private school, 1855-60. Sbe became con- nected Avith leading educators in furthering ad- vanced educational plans; was teacher of French and English in Le Roy collegiate institute, 1867- 76; taught English in Ingham university, Le Roy, N.Y., 1876-78; was principal of that uni- versity, 1878-84, and received the degree of A.E. from there in 1882. She opened and conducted Park Place school for young ladies at Batavia, N.Y., 1884-88; was principal of Sage college, the woman's branch of Cornell universit}', 1888- 97, after which she conducted private classes in English and gave Browning readings. She was elected a member of the College Woman's club of New York; and of the Saginaw Woman's club of Michigan in 1898; and is the author of occa- sonal contributions to periodicals.

HOOKER, Frank Arthur, jurist, was born in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 16, 1844; son of James Sedgwick and Camilla (Porter) Hooker; grand- son of Dr. Nathaniel and Abigail (Eggleston) Hooker, of Hartford, Conn., and of Reuben, Jr., and Lucy (Field) Porter, and a descendant in the eighth generation of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the immigrant. He removed with his parents to Maumee city, Ohio, in 1856, and later to Defiance, Ohio. He received his early education in the public schools of Ohio, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Michi-

gan, in 1865. He was admitted to the bar and practised at Byran, Ohio, and subsequently at Charlotte, Mich. He was superintendent of schools of Eaton county; prosecuting attorney for two terms; was appointed judge of the fifth judicial court in 1878; was elected circuit judge, and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court in 1892, and elected, April 3, 1893, for a full term of ten years.

HOOKER, Herman, author, was born in Poult- ney, Vt., in 1800; son of Col. James and Lucina (Christj-) Hooker; grandson of James and Doi-o- thy (Parmalee) Hooker, and a descendant of Thomas Hooker, of Mayerfield, Leicestershire, England, who immigrated to America, settled in Boston, Mass., in 1633, and became one of the first proprietors of the town of Cambridge, Mass. Col. James Hooker served in the Revolutionary war. Herman Hooker was graduated at Middle- bury college in 1825; attended Princeton Theo- logical seminar}-, 1825-27; was licensed by the presbytery of Newark, April 23, 1828; studied theology in the Protestant Episcojial Theological seminary, and took orders in the P. E. church, but failing health prevented his taking a parish, and he became an autlior, publisher and book- seller in Philadelphia, Pa. He left to Nashotah House about $10,000. Union conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1848. His pub- lished works include: The Child's Book on the Sabbath (1835); The Portion of the Soul (1835); Popular Infidelity (1830); The Family Book of Devotion (1836); The Farmer's Own Book (1839); The Uses of Adversity (1846); Thoughts and Maxims (1847); The Christian Life a Fight of Faith{lSi8); The Philosophy of Unbelief in Morals and Religion, and contributions to periodicals. He also edited Coleridge's poetical works (1843). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 25, 1865.

HOOKER, Isabella Beecher, philantliropist, was born in Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 22, 1822; daughter of Lyman and Harriet (Porter) Beecher. She was educated at the schools of her sister Catharine in Hartford, Conn., and in Cincin- nati, Ohio. She was married in 1841 to John Hooker, a lawyer of Hartford, and became a student of social, political and religious ques- tions. When she reached middle life she became, on a careful study of its phenomena, a believer in spiritualism. In later life she gave in different cities and towns throughout the New England and Middle states " Conversations " on cui'rent topics, which became popular, especially in women's clubs and for parlor entertainment. She is the au- thor of: Womanhood, its Sanctities and Fidelities {1873}; The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States (1888). an address before the In- ternational Council of Woman, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888, and magazine articles.