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removed early in life to Alabama, where he par- ticipated in the Indian wars, and was editor, suc- cessively, of the Chambers County Times, the Alabama Journal and the Montgomery Mail. He was elected state solicitor, and was private secretary to Leroy P. Walker, C.S. secretary of war, 18G1-G2, serving as secretary of the Confed- erate provisional congress both at Montgomery, Ala., and Richmond. Ya. He was married in 184-2 to Mary:Mildred Brantley, wiio died in May, 1899. They liad twocliildren: AVilliam, a captain in the C.S. army and subsetiuently law partner of Gen. Samuel Gholson, of Aberdeen, Miss., was assassinated in July, 1875; and Adolphus, a bus- iness man in New York city and New Orleans, died in New Orleans about 1894 from the result of a railroad accident. Secretary Hooper was custodian of the proceedings of the Confederate States congress, and at the time of his death was engaged in preparing the same for perma- nent record. He was author of Simon Suggs, and was com mended by Thackeray as one of the best humorous writers of America. He died in Rich- mond. Ya.. June 7. istj'J.

HOOPER, Lucy Hamiltoni Jones), author, was born in Pliiiadelpliia, Pa., Jan. 20, 183."); daugliter of Bataile Muse Jones, a well-known merchant of Piiiladelphia. She was educated in her native city, and while attending school contributed verses to Godeij's Lady's Book. She was married in 1834 to Robert M. Hooper, a native of Phila- delphia, where they resided until 1874. Soon after her marriage a commercial crisis ruined her husband's business and she was compelled to adopt literary pursuits as a profession. She contributed regularly to newspapers and maga- zines, and was associate editor of Our Daily Fare, is.sued in connection with the fair held by the U.S. Sanitary Commission in Piiiladelphia in 1864. and to which she presented the first hundred copies of a small collection of her poems pub- lished in that year. She was associate editor of Lippincott's Magazine from its establishment in 1868 until 1870, when she made her first trip to Euro|)e. Her husband was appointed vice- consul general in Paris in 1874. and she became Paris correspondent for the Piiiladelphia Evening Telegraph, the Baltimore Gazette, the American issue of the Art Journal, Applelon's Journal, Lippincott's Magazine, the St. Louis Post-Dis- jiatch and the Paris American Register. She is the author of: Poems icith Tran.slations from the German of Geibel and Others (1864); Poems (1871); The Nabob, translated from the French of Alphonse Daudet by special agreement with Daudet (1878); Under the Tricolor; or the Amer- ican Colony in Paris, novel (1880); The Tsar's Widow, novel (1881); two plays: Helen's In- heritance, which was produced at the Tlieatre

d'Application, Paris, in 1888, at the Madison Stiuare tlieatre. New York, in 1889, and toured the United States for several seasons under the title Inherited; and Her Living Image, in collaboration with a French dramati.st. She died in Paris. France, Aug. 31, 1893.

HOOPER, Samuel, representative, was born in TMarblehead, Mass., Feb. 3, 1808. His father and grandfather were both inercliants, and his father was president of the old Marblehead bank. In early life Samuel went as supercargo in his fatlier's vessels to Cuba, Russia and Spain. He was married in 1832 to a daughter of William Sturgis, and thereupon became a junior partner in the firm of Bryant, Sturgis &Co., in Boston, where he remained ten years As a member of the firm of William Apj^leton & Co. he engaged in the Cliina trade, 1842-75. He was interested in the manufacture of iron and in iron mines. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1852- 55; state senator, 1857, and a Rejiublican i-epre- sentative from Boston in the 37th-43d congresses inclusive, 1861-75. He served on the committees on ways and means, banking and commerce, and on the war debts of the loyal states. He was credited bj- Secretary Chase with being largely responsible for the success in floating the national loan of April, 1881, and in establishing the na- tional banking system. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia Loj'alists' convention of 1866. He founded the Sturgis-Hooper professorship of geology in connection with the school of mining and practical geology in Harvard university in 1865, which was made a separate chair in 1875. His contribution to Harvard to sustain the pro- fessorship was $50,000. Harvard conferred on him the honorarj- degree of A.M. in 1866. He is the author of: Currency or Money; its Nature and Uses (1855); A Defence of the Merchants of Bo.^ton (1866); An Examination of the Theory and the Effect of the Laws Regulating the Amount of Spe- cie in Banks ( 1860); and pamphlets and speeches. He .lied in Wasliington, D.C., Feb. 13. 1875.

HOOPER, William, clergyman, was born in Edennioutli. a farm at the junction of the Eden with the Tvveed near Kelso, Scotland, in 1704; son of Robert and Mary (Jaffray) Hooper, who were married, Aug. 2, 1692. William was grad- uated at Edinburgh university (which was also the alma mater of his father), M.A., in 1723; im- migrated to Bo.ston, Mass., where he became well known as an oratov, and was pastor of the West Congregational church in that place, from its foundation in 1737 until liis change to the Epis- copal faith in 1746. " He changed," says Bishop Phillips Brooks, " partly because of the argument for E])iscop;icy, Imt mainly because of the more liberal tiieology." He went to England in 1746, where he received orders and returned to Boston