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(VII) John (3), eighth child of John (2),
and Sarah (Northrup) Peck, was born in
Stanford, New York, September 11, 1780,
died December 15, 1849, in New York City,
being there on a temporary visit.
He moved with his father to the Chenango
Valley in 1795. He studied for the
ministry and early commenced preaching.
In 1804 he settled at Cazenovia, New York,
as pastor of the Baptist church, continuing
until his death. He was a distinguished
minister of the Baptist Church, and eminent
for his devotion to pastoral duty, his
fervid eloquence and his conservative
theological tendencies. He married,
August 20, 1801, Sarah Ferris, at Norwich,
New York, born May 7, 1784, died in Cazenovia,
New York, September 21, 1847. She
was a daughter of Israel Ferris, born
at Greenwich, New York, October 25, 1751,
died at Whitewater, Wisconsin, January
2, 1844. He served in the revolution
in Captain Abra-
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ham Mead's Company,
Ninth Regular Company Militia, Colonel John
Mead, of Greenwich. He appears by the
payroll to have been discharged from the
service, January 11, 1777. (Connecticut Men
in the Revolution). He resided after the
war in Dutchess, Chenango, and Yates
counties, New York. he married, about 1775,
Ruth Meade, born May 27, 1757, daughter of
Jonathan and Sarah Meade, of the town of
North East, Dutchess County, New York.
Jonathan Meade was first lieutenant in
Captain Huested's Company, Sixth Regiment
(Charlotte Precinct), Dutchess County,
militia, Colonel David Sutherland (Archives,
page 282). He was an early signer of the
Association. Israel Ferris was a son of
Japhet and Hannah (Peck) Ferris,
granddaughter of Samuel Peck (see generation
III), who was thus the
great-great-grandfather of both Rev. John
Peck and his wife, Sarah Ferris. Israel and
Ruth (Meade) Ferris were the parents of
thirteen children, some of them rose to
eminence, namely: Jonathan, Israel, Reuben,
Sarah, Sarah (2), Abraham, Stephen Gano.
Thompson, Israel Hubbard, Thompson (2),
Ruth, Jesse and Ambrose Lattin. Children of
Rev. John and Sarah (Ferris) Peck: 1.
Darius, see forward. 2. Mary, married John
Fiske, of Cazenovia, New York. 3. John,
died in infancy. 4. Rev. Philetus B.,
graduate of Hamilton Literary and
Theological Institute (now Colgate
University); ordained a minister of the
Baptist church in 1839; settled pastor of
the Baptist congregation at Owego, Tioga
County, New York, continuing until 1847,
when he suddenly died, October 6. He married
Nancy Morse. 5. Julia, married Rev.
William M. Pratt. 6. Rev. Linus M.,
entered Hamilton college in 1838; teacher,
lawyer and preacher; was settled over the
church at Hamilton, New York, until July,
`1847, when he was suddenly carried off at
Cazenovia, New York, by the same malignant
disease that proved fatal to his brother ,
Philetus B. Peck. They died within a few
hours , both had the same funeral obsequies
and were borne together to their last
resting place. He married Cordelia C.
Kendrick, of Hamilton, New York.
(VIII) Judge
Darius Peck, eldest son of Rev. John (3) and
Sarah (Ferris) peck, was born in Norwich,
Chenango County, New York, June 5, 1802,
died October 27, 1879. He prepared for
college under Rev. Daniel Hascall and Zenas
Morse, principal of Hamilton Academy, New
York, In October, 1822, he entered the
sophomore class of Hamilton College, New
York, by which he was graduated in August,
1825; studied law with Hon. Ambrose L.
Jordan and William Slosson, in the cities of
Hudson and New York; was admitted to the bar
of the supreme court of the State of New
York in August, 1828, and in 1829 began the
practice of law in Hudson, New York, where
he continued until his death. In February,
1833, he was appointed by the governor, and
confirmed by the senate of the state of New
York, recorder of the City of Hudson, then a
judicial officer as well as a member of the
common council of that city, which office he
held until April, 1843. For several years,
he was superintendent of schools and master
in chancery. In April, 1843, he was
appointed by the governor and senate a judge
of the court of common pleas of Columbia
County, New York, and in November, 1855, was
elected county judge of that county, and in
1863 and 1867 re-elected, presiding over the
courts of Columbia County for a term of
twelve years. He was a learned lawyer and
an able impartial judge. His associates of
the bar respected him, and when called to
preside over them held their friendship and
highest esteem. Judge Peck was deeply
interested in the collection and
preservation of fancily history. He
compiled and published in 1887 :A
genealogical Account of the Descendants in
the Male Line of William Peck." He spent
the leisure part of several years on the
work, and it is largely from this work that
this record is compiled. "Tho dead he
speaketh."
Judge Peck married, September 12, 1836,
Harriet M. Hudson, of Troy, New York,
born November 17, 1813, died April 18,
1863. Children, all born in the
city of Judson, New York: 1,
John Hudson. 2. Horace Robinson,
born December 9, 1839; graduated from
Hamilton college in 1859; admitted to
the New York bar in 1863, settled in Hudson,
New York, where he continued in the practice
of his profession until his death, April
29, 1907. Married, November 17,
1867, Anna Van Deusen, of Greenport, New
York. Child: Bayard Livingston,
born August 16, 1869. 3. Sarah
Lucretia, born March 19, 1842, died October
25, 1876; educated at Troy Fe-
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male Seminary; married
October 19, 1859, Martin Hoffman Philip, of
Claverack, New York, Children: i.
Katherine Maud, born September 13, 1860;
ii. Harry Van Ness, born August 9, 1862, an
attorney of New York City; iii. Laura
Johnson, born December 10, 1863. 4.
Willard, born March 2, 1844; graduate of
Hamilton College in 1864; admitted to the
New York State bar in 1867, settled in
Hudson, new York, where he continues the
practice of his profession. He married,
June 16, 1869, Mary Langford Curran, of
Utica, New York. Children: i. Harriet
Hudson, born April 2, 1870, died April 5,
1870; ii. Philip Curran, February 7, 1874;
an attorney in New York City; iii. Darius,
May 5, 1877; an attorney of New York City;
iv. Mary Langford, November 29, 1881. 5.
Nora, September 26, 1846; educated at Troy
Female Seminary, married, June 18, 1873,
Frederick Folger Thomas, of San Francisco,
California, where she resided; children: i.
William Shepard, born March 23, 1874, now a
mining engineer of California; ii. Maud
Angeline, February 10, 1876; iii. John
Hudson, July 16, 1878, now a practicing
architect of San Francisco; iv. Nora,
September 22, 1880; v. Frederick F.,
October 26, 1885, a lawyer of Berkley,
California. 6. Theodosia, October 24,
1848, died August 23, 1849. 7. Emma
Willard, May 9, 1852; educated at Troy
Female Seminary; married, February 1, 1897,
Justice Samuel Edwards, of the supreme
court, born April 24, 1839.
HOOKER.
Elon Huntington Hooker, who recently
laid aside active business for a few months
to become chairman of the Finance Committee
and National Treasurer of the Progressive
Party, is a very successful young business
man with a rarely forceful personality
which ash impressed itself upon all who
have come to know him in his business
and social worlds. A splendid persistence,
backed up by a broad intellectuality and
magnificent physical powers have enabled
him to win out in his business career
and to command the confidence of a wide
circle of the shrewdest businessmen of
the country. His associates and
acquaintances have learned that when he
starts out to do a thing that thing is
very apt to be done, no matter what the
difficulties and opposition.
Mr. Hooker is
new in the political world, but is already
making himself felt in his work for the
Progressive Party, because of his
unremitting industry and enthusiasm, his
power of convincing, and the confidence
which his personality and record inspire in
everyone he deals with. He became a worker
for Theodore Roosevelt because he admired
the man and believes in his principles. Mr.
Hooker is a civil engineer as well as a
business man.
The Hooker
family has long been settled in Hartford,
Connecticut, and in Rochester, New York, and
is one of the oldest in the United States,
dating back to the early history of New
England, where Thomas Hooker of whom Mr.
Hooker is a lineal descendant, founded the
city of Hartford, and the colony of
Connecticut. According to John Fiske, the
American historian, Thomas Hooker, by
originating and outlining the constitution
of Connecticut, became the real designer of
the framework of out present federal
constitution.
(I) John
Hooker was of Devonshire, England. He had a
brother Roger and a sister Mary, who married
John Russell, of Leicestershire. Children
of John Hooker: 1. John, lived in
Somersetshire. 2. Thomas, see forward.
3. Rev, Zachary, rector of St. Michael's
Cathays, Cornwall.
(II) Thomas
son of John Hooker, was of Devonshire. He
married and had children: 1. A daughter,
who married Dr. George Alcock, of London.
2. Rev. Thomas, see forward. 3. Dorothy,
married John Chester, of Leicestershire.
(III) Rev. Thomas (2) Hooker, son
of Thomas (1) Hooker, was the immigrant
ancestor of the Hooker family here dealt
with, and was born at Marfield, Leicestershire,
England, July 7, 1586. Cotton Mather
in his Magnalia says of him: "He
was born of parents that were neither
unable not unwilling to bestow on him
a liberal education; whereunto the early,
lively sparkles of wit observed in him
did much to encourage them; his natural
temper was cheerful and courteous but
it was accomplished with such a sensible
grandeur of mind, as caused his friends,
without the help of astrology, to prognosticate
that he was born to the considerable."
Regarding his education and conversion,
Sprague says: "He was educated
at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which
in due time he became a fellow.
He acquitted himself in
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this office with such
ability and fidelity as to secure universal
respect and admiration. It was while he
was thus employed that he became deeply
impressed with the importance of the eternal
realities, and after a protracted season of
bitter anguish of spirit, he was enabled to
submit without reserve to the terms of the
Gospel, and thus find peace and joy in
believing. His religious experience in the
very commencement seems to have been
uncommonly deep and thorough; and no doubt
it was partly owing to this that he became
so much distinguished in after life as a
counsellor, comforter and guide to the
awakened and desponding." He frequently
preached at Cambridge and for some time in
London and its vicinity. In 1826 he became
a lecturer and assistant to the Rev. Mr.
Mitchell at Chelmsford, and among his
hearers were noblemen and other of high
standing in English society. He was
accustomed once a year to visit his native
county, and was once asked to preach in the
great church of Leicester. One of the chief
burgesses of the town was greatly opposed to
his preaching there, and not being able to
hinder him, he set persons fiddling in the
churchyard with a view to disturbing him.
But Mr. Hooker was able to retain command of
his audience, and at least even the fiddler
went to the door to listen, and the story
goes onto say that his conversion followed.
In 1630 a
spiritual court which held its sessions at
Chelmsford silenced Mr. hooker for
nonconformity. Although he was in accord
with the doctrines of the English church,
there were certain forms of worship which he
could not practice, and on this ground he
was forbidden to minister to the people. He
continued, however, to live near Chelmsford,
and was employed in teaching a school at a
places called Little Braddow, having John
Eliot, afterwards the famous Indian apostle,
in his family as an usher. A petition
signed by forty-seven ministers of the
established church was sent to the spiritual
court asking to have Mr. Hooker established,
but it did no good. After a short residence
in retirement under the patronage of his
friend, the Earl of Warwick, he determined
to seek a home in Holland, and his steps
were watched by his persecutors, he being
followed even to the shore, but the ship
fortunately got off to sea before his
pursuers arrived. Mr. Hooker remained in
Holland for three years and was at first
employed as an assistant to Mr. Paget, at
Amsterdam. On account of a misunderstanding
with him, Mr. Hooker removed to Delft, and
as associated with the Rev. Mr. Forbes, a
Scotch minister. Two years later he
accepted a call to Rotterdam to assist the
Rev. Dr. William Ames. Dr. Ames is said to
have remarked that he never met a man the
equal of Mr. Hooker as a preacher or as a
learned disputant.
Mr. Hooker
decided to go to New England, but wished to
return to England first as the times were
supposed to be a little more tolerant. Upon
his arrival there, however, he found that
his enemies were still active, and he was
obliged to live in concealment until the
time of his departure from England to
America. He left England about the middle
of July, 1633, from the Downs, on the ship
"Griffin." Such was his peril that he and
his friend, Mr. Cotton, were obliged to
remain in concealment until the ship had put
out to sea. He arrived at Boston,
Massachusetts, September 4, 1633, and on
October 11, was chosen pastor of the church
at Newtown (Cambridge). He remained there
to the great satisfaction of the people for
two and half years. In June, 1636, he
joined the company of those who went to make
a settlement at Hartford, Connecticut, and
from this time was identified with all the
most important movements of the colony. He
was one of the moderators of the first New
England synod held at Cambridge, in the case
of the celebrated Ann Hutchinson. He
published many books and sermons between
1637 and his death. He ell a victim to a
violent epidemic disease and died July 7,
1647, a great loss to the community, The
Rev. Thomas Hooker, according to family
tradition, married a sister of John Pym, who
was an intimate friend. Children: Rev.
John, about 1636 returned to England and
there married and settled in the established
church at Maseworth, Bucks; Joanna, born
about 1615, died April, 1616; Mary, born
about 1618, married the Rev. Roger Newton,
first pastor of Farmington, later of
Milford, Connecticut; Sarah, born about
1630, married the Rev. John Wilson, of
Medfield; a daughter, who married and became
a widow; Samuel, see forward.
(IV) Rev. Samuel Hooker, son of
the Rev. Thomas (2) Hooker, was born in
1633., He was educated at Harvard
College, from which
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he was graduated in
1653. He succeeded the Rev. Roger
Newton, his brother-in-law, and was the
second pastor of the church at Farmington,
where he was ordained in July, 1661.
He was on a committee of four in 1662
to treat with the New Haven colony in
reference to the proposed union with Connecticut
under on colonial government. All
the descendants of the Rev. Thomas Hooker,
bearing the name of Hooker, are also his
descendants. He was a fellow of
Harvard, and on account of his earnestness
and piety was called the "fervent
Hooker." He had a habit of
committing his sermons to memory and was
a powerful and effective preacher.
He died at Farmington, November 6, 1697.
He married, September 22, 1658,
Mary Willett, of Swansea, Massachusetts,
afterwards of Seakonk, Rhode Island.
Her mother was Mary (Brown) Willett.
Mary (Willett) Hooker married (second)
August 10, 1703, the Rev. Thomas Buckingham,
of Saybrook, Connecticut. Children
of Mr. and Mrs. Hooker: 1.
Dr. Thomas, born June 10, 1659; married,
1686, Mary (Smith) Lord, widow of Richard
Lord. 2. Samuel, born May 29, 1661;
married, June 28, 1687, Mehitable Hamlin,
of Middletown, Connecticut, born November
17, 1666, resided at Hartford. 3.
William, born May 11, 1663, merchant at
Farmington; married, 1689, Susannah Blackleach,
widow of John. 4. Hon. John,
born February 20, 1664-65, died February
1, 1746. 5. Hon. James, born
October 27, 1666; resided at Guilford,
Connecticut, and served as deputy to the
general assembly. 6. Roger,
of Hartford, born September 14, 1668,
died unmarried. 7. Nathaniel,
see forward. 8. Mary, born
July 3, 1673; was the third wife of the
Rev. James Pierpoint, of New Haven, and
was the mother of Sarah, who married the
celebrated Rev. Jonathan Edwards.
9. Hezekiah, born November 7, 1675,
died in 1686. 19, Daniel,
born March 25, 1670, died in 1742,
11, Sarah, born may 8, 1681; married
the Rev. Stephen Buckingham, of
Norwalk, Connecticut.
(V)
Nathaniel, son of the Rev. Samuel and mary
(Willett) hooker, was born in Farmington,
September 28, 1671. He was a noted merchant
and a prominent man in Hartford, his place
of business being on the main street, a
piece of property which had been the
building lot of his father-in-law, who gave
half of his lot, extending from the second
burial ground to the Little River., to Mr.
Hooker when he married. Mr. Hooker
represented Hartford in the colonial
assembly for several years before his death,
which occurred November 11, 1711. His widow
married (second) John Austin, a noted
merchant of Hartford. She died at Hartford
in 1753, ten years after the death of her
second husband. By her second husband she
had two children, one of whom died young.
Nathaniel Hooker married, December 28, 1698,
Mary, daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel and
Sarah (Boosey) Standley, of Hartford,
Connecticut, born in that city, October 8,
1677. She had been betrothed to Roger
Hooker, a brother of Nathaniel, who died in
1698. Children: 1. Mary, born at
Hartford, December 3, 1699, died January 2,
1765. 2. Alice, born at Hartford, November
12, 1701. 3. Sarah, born at Hartford,
November 7, 1704. 4. Abigail, born at
Hartford, baptized in 1707, died at Norwich,
Connecticut; became the third wife of the
Rev. Benjamin Lord. 5. Nathaniel, see
forward.
(VI)
Nathaniel (2), youngest son of Nathaniel (1)
and Mary (Standley) Hooker, was born in
1710, baptized October 8, 1710, died at
Hartford, Connecticut, January 27, 1763. He
was a prominent man in colonial affairs,
captain of the militia, a merchant of
Hartford, and represented the town in the
colonial assembly during three sessions. He
left a large estate. He married Eunice,
born in Hartford, January 26, 1709, daughter
of Governor Joseph and Eunice (Howell-Wakeman)
Talcott, of Hartford. Children: 1.
Nathaniel, born at Hartford, December 5,
1737. 2. Eunice, 1740. 3. James, see
forward. 4. Mary, born in 1744, died at
Hartford, Connecticut, August 2w7, 1763.
5. Horace, born August 24, 1746.
(VII) James, son of Nathaniel (2)
and Eunice (Talcott) Hooker, was born
at Hartford, August 15, 1742, and died
at Windsor, Connecticut, December 10,
1805. He was a merchant of Hartford
and Windsor, having with his brothers
succeeded to the business of his father
at Hartford, and established a business
at Windsor. The Windsor firm became
Hooker & Chaffee, consisting of James
Hooker and John Chaffee, a brother of
James Hooker's third wife. Before
the Revolutionary War, this was one of
the largest and most flourish-
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ing mercantile houses
of New England, and transacted much business
for the colonial government. James Hooker
was commissioned a captain and all the
members of the firm were devoted patriots
and gave freely of their means for the
assistance of the colonial cause and at the
end of the war were in serious financial
embarrassment. Subsequently their heavy
losses by the French and Spanish spoliations
caused their failure, and the dissolution of
this famous firm scattered its members.
James Hooker
married (first) January 6, 1763, Hannah, a
daughter of Alexander and Hannah Allin, of
Windsor, born July 14, 1743; (second) April
30, 1777, dolly Goodwin, who died in 1784;
and (third) November 7, 1784, Mary, daughter
of Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee, of Windsor,
Connecticut; she died at Schenectady, 1846.
(?) Children by first marriage: 1.
Alexander Allin, born in Windsor, November
30, 1763, died march 20, 1781. Children by
the third marriage: 2. Hannah, born
September 4, 1785. 3. Dolly Goodwin, July
30, 1787. 4. Alexander Allin, October 30,
1789. 5. James, July 12, 1792. 6.
Horace, see forward. 7. Mary Chaffee, born
March 3, 1796. 8. Eliza, February 10,
1798, died at Meriden, Connecticut, March
21, 1798. 9. Henry Thomas, born July 13,
1803, died at Syracuse, New York, October 1,
1893, married mary Brown Cobb, July 5,
1838.
(VIII)
Horace, son of James and Mary (Chaffee)
Hooker, was born at Windsor, Connecticut,
July 5, 1794, died November 3, 1865. Like
his progenitor he had the spirit of the
pioneer, and the glowing accounts of the
Genesee County attracted him to western New
York, where so many Hartford and Windsor
families had settled. He lived for a short
time at Bristol, near Canandaigua, where he
engaged in mercantile business with his
brother, Alexander Allin, and later he went
to Carthage, near Rochester, to co-operate
with his brother-in-law, Judge Strong, in
developing what was supposed to be the
future city of Genesee. He was for twenty
years engaged in active commercial
enterprises, and through all his business
vicissitudes, he remained a courtly
gentleman of the strictest integrity and
high moral character, a power in the
community in which he lived. He married,
September 3, 1822, Helen, daughter of
Erastus and Chloe (Bissell) Wolcott, of
Windsor, Connecticut, born March 9, 1794,
died April 4, 1840. Mrs. Hooker was a great
granddaughter of Governor Roger Wolcott, and
came from the long ine of Connecticut and
Massachusetts governors of this name.
Children: 1. Julia Wolcott, born at
Rochester, June 10, 1823. 2. Henry Edward,
September 4, 1824. 3. Frances, August 21,
1826, died April 20, 1906, at Skaneateles,
new York; was unmarried, and engaged in
literary pursuits. 4. James Wolcott, born
May 10, 1828. 5. John Chaffee, June 30,
1830, died at Rochester, January 7, 1832.
6. Charles M., born November 9, 1832. 7.
Thomas, March 27, 1836, died at Rochester,
July 31, 1836. 8. Horace B., see forward.
(IX) Horace
B., son of Horace and Helen (Wolcott)
Hooker, was born at Rochester, new York,
December 7, 1837. He was a lieutenant
(acting captain) in the First Missouri
Engineers, during the Civil War. He
married, November 14, 1861, Susan Pamelia,
born August 18, 1841, daughter of Elon and
Annjeannette (Cole) Huntington, of
Rochester, New York. These Huntingtons were
prominent in the early history of the United
States, one of the family being governor of
Connecticut and president of the colonial
congress. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hooker:
1. Albert Huntington, born at Rochester,
November 25, 1865. 2. A son, not named,
born and died July 12, 1867. 3., Frances
Margaret Huntington, born June 10, 1868.
4. Elon Huntington, see forward. 5. A
daughter, not named, born and died September
6, 1871. 6. Harry Mix, born July 18,
1872. 7. Paul, February, 1875. 8. Horace
Willard, December 24, 1881. 9. Thomas, May
4, 1883, died September 12, 1884, at
Rochester.
(X) Elon Huntington, son of Horace
B. and Susan Pamelia (Huntington) Hooker,
was born in Rochester, New York, November
23, 1869. He received his early
education in the public schools of Rochester,
and continued his technical training in
the night schools of the Mechanics institute
for a period of several years. He then
entered the University of Rochester, from
which he was gradated in the classical
course with the class of 1891. His
vacations were spent in field engineering
under the able training of Emil Knichling,
a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity
at Rochester, and was prominent in athletics,
being a member of the football team and
a
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tennis player of
intercollegiate rank. He was also manger of
the University Glee and Banjo Club. He
worked his way through college. After his
graduation at Rochester he went to Cornell
university as a resident graduate and
covered the civil engineering course in two
years. There he was a formidable worker,
who alternating his studies with periods
where he earned enough funds to get through
his engineering course. He managed, while
continuing his course at Cornell, to find
time for original investigations along
scientific lines and to wrest from the
faculty, in addition to his regular
engineering degree, a degree as Doctor of
Philosophy. He has also the degrees of
Bachelor and Master of Arts from Rochester.
His success at Cornell won him a traveling
fellowship, which allowed him to go abroad
to continue his hydraulic studies at the
Zurich Polytechnicum and the Ecole des Ponts
and Chaussees, at Paris.
Returning to
this country, Mr. Hooker spent several years
in engineering work in the field, and was
one of a commission of contracting engineers
who inspected the Panama and Nicaragua canal
routes in 1898. His first personal contact
with Theodore Roosevelt came when the latter
was governor of New York and appointed Mr.
hooker deputy superintendent of public
works, in which position he shared the
responsibility for the operation and
maintenance of the state canals and roads,
and was especially engaged in the
investigation of the expenditures under the
preceding nine million dollar improvement
to the Erie Canal System. In 1901 Mr.
Hooker resigned to engage in timber, mining
and railroad enterprises in the southwest.
Two years later he organized and became
president of the Development and Funding
Company, building and operating engineering
and industrial enterprises. Shortly
afterward he and his associates formed the
Hooker Electrochemical Company, a concern
which has a large manufacturing plant at
Niagara Falls, New York, and produces
caustic soda and chloride of lime by
electrolysis of rock salt. The business
employs nine thousand horse power and has
now been in operation, day and night, for
about eight years, and has proved a great
engineering success as well as a very
profitable investment. It is generally
admitted by specialists here and abroad that
the Hooker plant is higher in efficiency
than any plant of the same kind now in
existence.
Mr. Hooker is
a man of high ideals of a practiced kind,
which bring with them a reasonable hope of
realization. His friends say of him that he
is ready always to listen to advice and to
gain whatever advantage there may be in the
suggestions of his associates, giving them
the credit both financially and otherwise
for what they have contributed. He has
devoted some of his time to writing
pamphlets that have had an important
influence in their field. He is the author
of : "Storage Capacity In lakes and
Reservoirs," 1894; "Some References on River
Hydraulics," 1895; and "The Suspension of
Solids in Flowing Water," 1896. In politics
he was a Republican until the Chicago
convention which nominated Taft, then he
cast his lot with the Progressive Party.
Mr. Hooker is a member of the Cornell
Association of Civil Engineers, the Sigma Xi
Society, the Lake Mohonk Municipal
Arbitration Conference and the National
Municipal League. Among his New York clubs
are: the Century, University, Alpha Delta
Phi, Cornell and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht
Club. He has business offices at 40 Wall
Street, New York City.
While he was
taking advantage of his European fellowship,
Mr. Hooker met in Rome, Blanche, daughter of
the late D. M. Ferry, one of the most
prominent bankers and men of Detroit,
Michigan. Miss Ferry had just been
graduated from Vassar College, of which
institution. Dr. James M. Taylor, an uncle
of Mr. Hooker, is president. Mr. Hooker and
Miss Ferry were married in Detroit, January
25, 1901, and they have four daughters.
They live in an artistically conceived,
old-fashioned house at Greenwich,
Connecticut, which bears the marks of the
refined taste of the present owners, who
had it rebuilt to suit their own
individuality.
BUCKLEY.
In many cases the family of
Buckley is probably derived from the name
of the hamlet of Buckley in Lancashire,
which gave residence and name to a family
descended in England from John DeBuckley,
whose brother Geoffrey was Dean of Whalley
in the reign of King Stephen. This
John had a son Geoffrey, who son Geoffrey
was slain at
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the battle of Evesham
in the year 1265. Adam of Buckley
attested deeds in 1339 and 1359, and another
John in 1370 and 1390m this latter being
probably son of a Robert Buckley and married
Alice Wolfenden. Elias Buckley in
1434 might be a son of John and Alice
Buckley, and was father of Rafe who married
Katherine, the surname of the wife remaining
unrecorded. Thomas Buckley, witness
to a deed May 18, 1507, was probably a
descendant. James Bucley, of Bucley,
of this family, it appears November 12,
1512, married Alice Howarth, of Howarth,
and had issue: Thomas, and Catherine,
who married Thomas Chadwike. This
Thomas Bucley attested deeds, January
1, 1534-35, and again May 161561, august
16, 1580, and October 22, 1581.
Married Grace, daughter of Arthur Ashton,
of Great Clegg. James Buckley, who
was another witness of the deed in 1581,
was probably his son. Of the same
family was Lawrence Buckley, who with
one Edmund Ashton in 1567 was sued by
Sir John Byron (ancestor of the poet)
and others, the inhabitants of Rochdale,
in Lancashire, about the right of way
over property at Butterworth and other
common rights. Two years later Barnards
Buckley, apparently his brother, had to
establish his right to his inheritance
by suit at law against roger Gartside
and John Holte, and lost part of it, consisting
of land at Castleton. This Barnards
was probably a cousin of Catherine Buckley,
of Chedale, aunt of Sir Richard Buckley,
Knight, who made her will November
16, 1559, in which she mentions by name
her brothers, Thomas, Robert and William,
the latter deceased. William Buckley
died in the early part of Queen Elizabeth's
reign, possessed of lands at Quicke and
Suddleworth in Yorkshire, and Abell, his
great-grandson, became the heir general
of the family in the reign of King Charles
the First. Robert Buckley appears to have
been the oldest of Catherine Buckley's
brothers and died apparently without issue
in 1557, possessed of Messury, Terr, Bosc,
etc., at Buckley Manor and Hundersfelde
in Lancashire. Sir Richard
Buckley, Knight, living in 1619, who married
Annie, sister of Sir Thomas Wilsford,
was his descendant. The Buckleys
are also numerous in Ireland, the name
in this case being a translation or anglicized
form from Mac Ficheaill (mac, "son:,
and ficheaill, Gaelic, "buckle"),
the name Mac Ficheaill or Buckley being
derived from Gillacaemghin na Ficheaill,
son of Bhaltair or Walters or Walter,
who is one hundred and eighteenth link
on the pedigree stem of the Ui Tuathail
family or clan, anciently chiefs of Hy-Muireadaigh,
afterwards Kings of Leinster and Princes
of Imaile. The Buckleys, Viscounts
of Cashel, were a branch of this ancient
family.
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