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Hooker (THOMAS an English ed cases)

THOMAS, an English ed 539,107 cases in the Southern clergyman; born in Markfield, Leicester- States. shire, in 1586. He came to America in 1633. In 1636 removed from Newtown (Cambridge, Mass.) to Hartford, and founded that colony, becoming minister of the First Church there. He won eminence as a theological writer and a preacher, and has a permanent historical importance for his instrumentality in drawing up the first written constitution in America-that of the Hartford Colony. His chief work is "A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline," in collaboration with John Cotton. He died in Hartford, Conn., July 7, 1647.

HOOKER (WILLIAM) BRIAN, an American author; born in New York City in 1880. He graduated from Yale University in 1902. He served as assistant in English at Columbia University in 1903 and 1905, and as instructor of rhetoric at Yale from 1905 to 1909.

He won several prizes for literary performances, and in 1911 wrote the libretto for the opera "Mona," which was was awarded a $10,000 prize by the Metropolitan Opera Co. In 1914 he was awarded $10,000 by the City of Los Angeles for the libretto of an opera to be produced on the occasion of the city's centenary. He wrote "The Right Man" (1908); "The Professor's Mystery" (1910); "Poems" (1915).