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including the remainder of liis corps, operated against the Confederates at Missionary Ridge. Tliis demonstration General Tliomas turned into a victory. AVith his little army reinforcetl by Osterhaus's and Cruffs divisions. Hooker scaled the heights and fought "tlie battle above the clouds," after which Sherman and Thomas drove Bragg's army back in confusion from Missionary Ridge. General Hooker then joined Sherman's army in the pursuit of the Confederates into Georgia and fought the stubborn battle of Ring- gold on Nov. 27, I'^.J.;. When the expedition against Atlanta was planned. General Hooker was retained as commaniler of the 20th corps, and lie fought at Snake Creek Gap, May 8, 18G4, Rocky-face Mountain, May 9, 1864, Resaca, ^lay 13, 1864, Dallas,:\Iay 27-28, and Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864. At Snake Creek Gap the 20th corps, under tiie personal direction of Gen- eral Hooker, carried by storm the two Confeder- ate redoubts. Howard was appointed to succeed McPherson as commander of the Army of the Tennessee, by order of General Sherman and against the wislies of President Lincoln, who telegraphed Slierman to appoint General Hooker. Thereupon Hooker, at his own request, was re- lieved of the command of the 20th corps, and President Lincoln made him commander of the Northern department with headquarters at De- troit. Genei'al Hooker was married, Oct. 3, ISG."), to Olivia Augustus Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was known in the army as " Fighting Joe." He died at Garden City, Long Island, N.Y., and his remains found sepulture at Cincin- nati, Ohio, after an imposing funeral in New York city. The date of his death is Nov. 2, I'-Tn. HOOKER, Thomas, clergyman, was born in England, in l.j8.3, or l.jSG; son of Thomas Hooker. He studied theology in Cambri<1ge and w;is a fellow of Emmanuel col- lege. He was made an assistant to a clergyman at Chelmsford, and was silenced for nonconfor- mity in 162(5, as he object- ed to the ceremonies of the church while adher- ing to its doctrines. He taught a school in Little Baddow. where John Eliot, afterward the apostle to the Indians, was his assistant. Per- secution still following him he fled to Holland in 1630, and preached at AVith John Cotton, Sam- uel Stone and others he secretly immigrated

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to America on the siiip Griffin in 1G33. He landed in Boston, Sept. 3, 1633, and located at Newtoun, Mass., the site of the present city of Cambridge. On Oct. 1 1, 1633, Hooker was chosen pastor of the eighth church that was tormed in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. In June, 1636. lie removed with his whole congregation to the banks of the Connecticut river and founded the town of Hartford. He was a moderator of the llrst New England synod held in Cambridge to act upon the case of Anne Marbury Hutchinson. He is the author of: TheSurveij of the Sum of Clivrcli J>iscipIiiie{l6iS); The Application of linlemptio)! hij the EJectiufl Work of the Word and Spirit of Christ for the Bringing Home of Lost Sinners to God (16.")T); Poor Doubting Sinner drmcn to Christ (7th ed., 1743). See Selection of his Works and Memoir hv the Rev. Edward W. Hooker (1849). He dip.l in FTartford. Conn., July 7, 1647.

HOOKER, Warren Brewster, representative, was born at Perrysljurg. N.Y., Nov. 21, ISoG; son of John and Philena (Waterman) Hooker, and a descendant of the Rev. Thomas Hooker the im- migrant, 1G33. Ha was educated at Forestville academy, and was admitted to the bar in 1879, practising i:i Fredonia, N.Y. He was special surrogate of Chautauqua county, 1878-80; super- visor of Fredonia for several j'ears; and a Re- public-an representative from the thirty-fourth district in the 52d, 53d, 54th, and 55th con- gresses, 1891-99. He was re-elected to the 56th congress, but resigned his seat Nov. 11, 1899, and was succeeded l)y Edwai'd B. Vreeland.

HOOKS, Charles, representative, was born in Bertie count}, N.C. He was a representative from Duplin county, N.C, in the state legislature, 1802-04; and a state senator, 1810-11. He was a representative in the 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th congresses, 1815-17 and 1819-25. His sister Mary married Ezekiel SlocumI) ((j-v.), and became famous for her daring adventure to reach her Imsband on the battle-field of Moore's Creek, N.C, Feb. 27, 1776. Mr. lloolcs suijsec^uently removed to Alabama, where \\o died in IS,")!.

HOOPER, Archibald Maclaine, writer and lawyer, was born in Wilmington, N.C, Dec. 7, 1775; S(ni of George and Catharine (Maclaine) Hooper; and grandson of Archibald Maclaine. a Revolutionary patriot of V.'ilmington, N.C, and of the R<'v. William Hooper, second rector of Trinity church, Boston, Mass. He was educated as a lawyer and was editor of the Cape Fear Recorder, 182G-32. He was married to Charlotte, daughter of Lieut. -Col. John A. De Berniere of the 60th regiment of the British army: and had three sons; George D., John De Berniere and Johnson J. (q.v.); and a daughter Louisa wh(» married, first, the Rev. Daniel Cobia, and second- Iv the Rev. J. J. Roberts, D.D. He is the author