Hooker family.

Edward Hooker was born in Farmington, Connecticut on April 27, 1785. He graduated from Yale in 1805 and taught near Columbia, South Carolina from 1806-1808. He also served as a tutor at Yale College from 1808-1811. Hooker held municipal office in Farmington, Connecticut from 1828-1838. He died there on May 5, 1846.

Edward Hooker was born on December 25, 1822 in Farmington, Connecticut. He served in the merchant marine (1837-1861) and entered the United States Navy as acting master on the gunboat Louisiana. Several promotions during the Civil War placed him in command of boats on the Rappahannock River. Hooker served as naval storekeeper in the Brooklyn navy-yard (1865-1867) and commanded the store-ship Idaho (1867-1869). He then served as inspector of yards and docks at the New York navy-yards (1820) and retired in 1884 with the rank of commander. Hooker died in Brooklyn, New York in 1903.

Henry Daggett Hooker was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 25, 1892. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from Yale University (M.A., 1913; Ph.D, 1915). He taught at Yale University and served in World War I. From 1919-1929 Hooker taught courses on horticulture and plant chemistry at the University of Missouri. He died in Columbia, Missouri on October 26, 1929.

From the description of Hooker family papers, 1623-1929 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702206072