Cdr. Edward Hooker, USN

Source:
Newspaper Name Index, USA, Canada, and Australia
MyHeritage.com [online database], MyHeritage Ltd.
https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10969/newspaper-name...

Record:
https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10969-2771851918/edward-...
Edward Hooker

Citation:
The Boston Transcript - 1903-05-02
Text: ... U. 8. V. Commander Edward Hooker, retired, died at his honie ln Brooklyn, Thursday. He was over eighty, having born in Farmington, Conn., on Christmas day, 1822. He retired at the age of and took up ...
Publication title: The Boston Transcript
Publication place: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Date: May 2 1903

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Curator's Note: The following concerns the author of this genealogical work, Edward Hooker. -- Jessica Marie German

Bibliographic information:

• The descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 : being an account of what is known of Rev. Thomas Hooker's family in England : and more particularly concerning himself and his influence upon the early history of our country : also all items of interest which it has been possible to gather concerning the early generations of Hookers and their descendants in America
• by Hooker, Edward
• Publication date 1909
• Publisher Rochester, N.Y. : Margaret Huntington Hooker
• Book from the collections of Harvard University
• Pages 612
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• https://archive.org/details/descendantsrevt00hookgoog/page/38/mode/1up

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Bibliographic information:

• A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family
• by Doggett, Samuel Bradlee, 1858-
• Publication date 1894
• Publisher Boston : Press of Rockwell and Churchill
• Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• Copyright-evidence Evidence reported by CallieLamkin for item historyofdoggett00indogg on September 4, 2008: no visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1894.
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Pages 804
• https://archive.org/details/historyofdoggett00indogg/page/141/mode/1up

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Edward Hooker was born at Farmington, Connecticut in 1822. He entered the merchant service in 1836 and entered the US Navy on 20 July 1861 when he was appointed acting master. He served on board Louisiana and Victoria before being transferred to the Potomac Flotilla where he commanded Currituck, Yankee, and Commodore Read. He was wounded on 5 October 1861 while cutting out a privateer and was subsequently in the Burnside Expedition and all of its engagements. After the Civil War he served as the naval store keeper at New York and commanded Idaho. He retired with the rank of commander on 25 December 1884.

http://www.history.navy.mil/library/manuscript/hooker_edward.htm

https://archive.org/details/descendantsrevt00hookgoog/page/246/mode...

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