professor of the theory and practice of medicine in Yale. In 1864 he was made vice-president of the American medical association, and as a member of committees made several important reports. He is the author of a series of scientific books for the young, and of several professional works, includ- ing '"Physician and Patient," (New York, 1849); "Homoeopathy, an Examination of its Doctrines and Evidences " (1852) ; " Human Physiology for Colleges and Schools " (1854) ; " Rational Therapeu- tics " (1857) ; " The Child's Book of Nature " (1857) ; and " The Child's Book of Common Things " (1858).
HOOPER, Edward, engraver, b. in London,
England, 24 May, 1829 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 13
Dec, 1870. He was educated in London. From
1850 till his death he was a member of the wood-
engraving firm of Bobbett and Hooper, and pro-
duced several water-colors that were remarkable
for their accuracy of drawing and harmony of
color. He was one of the originators of the Ameri-
can water-color society, and exhibited his produc-
tions at the Academy of design.
HOOPER, Edward James, agriculturist, b. in
England in 1803. He settled in the United States
in 1820, edited the " Western Parmer and Gardener "
for several years, contributed to various agricultural
journals for more than twenty years, and published
a " Dictionary of Agriculture " (Cincinnati, 1842).
HOOPER," John, botanist, b. in Oxford, Eng-
land, in 1802 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 26 April, 1869.
He came to the United States in 1839, and devoted
himself to natural science. In conjunction with
Prof. Jacob W. Bailey of West Point, and Prof.
William H. Harvey of Trinity college, Dublin, he
made many researches in the study of marine algae,
of which he accumulated a valuable collection.
This he bequeathed to the Long Island historical
society, of which he was a charter member.
HOOPER, Johnson J., lawyer, b. in North
Carolina about 1815 : d. in Alabama in 1863. At an
early age he removed to Alabama, where he became
solicitor of the 9th circuit, holding that office
from 1849 till 1863. In 1861 he was secretary of
the provisional Confederate congress. He also
edited at one time a Whig journal, and published
"Adventures of Capt. Simon Suggs " (Philadelphia,
1845), and " Widow Rugby's Husband, and other
Tales of Alabama" (1851).
HOOPER, Lucy, poet, b. in Newburyport, Mass.,
4 Feb., 1816 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1 Aug., 1841.
She was carefully educated by her father, after
whose death her family removed to Brooklyn in
1831. In early life she contributed poems to the
" Long Island Star," which were published in a
volume that also contained a prize essay on " Do-
mestic Happiness " (1840). During her last illness
she prepared a work entitled " The Lady's Book of
Poetry and Flowers " (New York, 1845). An edition
of her works, with a memoir by John Keese, was
published in 1842, and subsequently her " Complete
Poetical Works " appeared (New York, 1848).
HOOPER, Lucy Hamilton, poet, b. in Phila-
delphia, Pa., 20 Jan., 1835. She is the daughter of
B. Muse Jones, a Philadelphia merchant, and in
1854 married Robert M. Hooper, who is now (1887)
U. S. vice-consul-general in Paris. In conjunc-
tion with Charles G. Leland she edited " Our
Daily Fare," the daily chronicle of the Philadel-
phia sanitary fair in 1864. She was assistant edi-
tor of " Lippincott's Magazine " from its founda-
tion until she went to Europe in 1870. In 1874
she settled in Paris, and since has been correspond-
ent for various journals in this country. She
has published " Poems, with Translations from the
German " (Philadelphia, 1864) ; another volume of
" Poems " (1871) ; a translation of " Le Nabob," by
Alphonse Daudet (Boston, 1879) ; and " Under the
Tricolor," a novel (Philadelphia, 1880).
HOOPER, Robert Lettice, jurist. He was
chief justice of New Jersey from 1724 till 1728, and
again from 1729 till his death in 1739. He resided
in Perth Amboy and was a warden in St. Peter's
church. — His son, Robert Lettice, b. in 1709 ; d.
in Trenton, N. J., 25 April, 1785, purchased prop-
erty in Trenton in 1751, and was deputy quarter-
master-general in 1778. On 12 July, 1782, he issued
an address to " prevent trade and intercourse with
the enemy," and was a member of the first com-
mittee of nine, 19 July, 1782, and chairman of the
second committee, on 22 July, to carry this object
into effect. — His son, Robert Lettice, was elected
president of the legislative council in 1785.
HOOPER, Samuel, merchant, b. in Marblehead,
Mass., 3 Feb., 1808 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 13
Feb., 1875. After receiving a common-school edu-
cation he entered at an early age the counting-
house of his father, who was engaged in European
and West Indian trade. As agent of this enter-
prise the son visited Russia, Spain, and the West
Indies. About 1832 he became junior partner in
the mercantile house of Bryant, Sturgis, and Co.,
in Boston, where he remained for ten years, and
then was a member of the firm of William Ap-
pleton and Co., who were engaged in the China
trade. He was much interested in the iron busi-
ness and its relation to questions of political
economy, and possessed shares in the mines and
furnaces near Port Henry, Lake Champlain, and
in the Bay-State rolling-mills, South Boston. In
1851 he was elected to the Massachusetts house of
representatives, where he served three years, declin-
ing a re-election, and in 1857 became state senator,
but refused a renomination on account of his bus-
iness enterprises. In 1860 he was elected to con-
gress, as a Republican, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of William Appleton, and was
re-elected at each successive biennial election until
his death. He served on the committees on ways
and means, on banking and currency, arid on the
war debts of the loyal states. The success of the
national loan of April, 1861, was greatly due to his
efforts. In 1869 Chief- Justice Chase wrote a letter
attributing the success of the bill that provided for
the national banking system to the " good judg-
ment, persevering exertions, and disinterested
patriotism of Mr. Hooper." In 1866 he was a dele-
gate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention. He
presented $50,000 to Harvard, in 1866, to found a
school of mining and practical geology in close
connection with the Lawrence scientific school,
and in that year received the degree of M. A. from
the university. He wrote two pamphlets on cur-
rency, which became well known for their broad
and comprehensive treatment of this subject. His
house in Washington, which was noted for its
hospitality, was the headquarters of Gen. George
B. McClellan in 1861-'2.
HOOPER, William, clergyman, b. near Kelso, Scotland, in 1702 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 14 April, 1767. He was graduated at Edinburgh university, and came to New England a short time before he was appointed pastor of the West Congregational church in Boston, Mass., which charge he held from 18 May, 1737, till 19 Nov., 1746. He then be-
came an Episcopalian, and went to England to receive orders. On his return in 1747 he was appointed rector of Trinity church, Boston, which post he occupied till his death. He published several sermons, including one with the title " The Apostles neither Impostors nor Enthusiasts"
