Hooker
Hooker names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hooker RICHARD, an English diine
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD, an English diine; born in 1553. He became a Fellow vine; of Christ Church in 1577. In 1579 he was appointed deputy Professor of Hebrew; took orders in 1581, and was made preacher at Paul's Cross. In 1584 he became rector of Drayton Beauchamp and in 1585 Master of the Temple. In , 1595 he received the living of Bishopsbourne, in Kent, where he ended his days. His "Ecclesiastical Polity," written in defense of the Church of England, is remarkable for learning, extent of research and richness and purity of sissippi. In four years the Rockefeller style. He died in 1600. 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 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).
Hooker JOSEPH, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPH, an American military officer; born in Hadley, Mass., Nov. 13, 1814; was graduated at the United States Military Aca Academy, in 1837, and served in the Florida and Mexican Wars. In 1853 he resigned from the army, but on the outbreak of the Civil War he re-entered it. He fought under McClellan and in northern Virginia and Maryland, receiving a wound at the battle of Antietam. On account of his bravery his soldiers nicknamed him "Fighting Joe Hooker." His for his concern soldiers, especially his care that they be well fed, made him popular with the rank and file. In 1863 he was made commander of the Army of the Potomac, the bloody battle and in May he fought ght of Chancellorsville, in which nearly to a difference between himself and Gen- 30,000 were killed or wounded. Owing eral Halleck, Hooker resigned his command (1863), but he still served as major-general, and fought under Grant at Chattanooga and under Sherman at Atlanta. In 1868 he retired from the army. He died in Garden City, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1879.
Hooker SIR JOSEPH DALTON, an English botanist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR JOSEPH DALTON, an English botanist; born in Halesworth, Suffolk, June 30, 1817. He was assistant surgeon and naturalist of the expedition of Sir James Clark Ross; visite visited India in 1847; and in 1871 with John Ball ascended the Great Atlas in Morocco. From 1855 to 1885 he was on the directorate of Kew Gardens. Among his works are: "Botany of the Antarctic Voyage" (1847-1860); "Himalayan Journals" (1854); "Student's Flora of the British Islands" (1870); "Botany" (Science Primers), in 1876; "Journal of a Tour in Morocco and the Great Atlas" (1878). He died in 1911.
Hooker ISABELLA BEECHER, an American philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ISABELLA BEECHER, an American philanthropist; born in Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 22, 1822; daughter of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. She made a life study of woman's rights and duties, and wrote "Womanhood," etc. She died Jan. 25, 1907.
Hooker MOUNT, a peak in the Rocky Mountains in Canada
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MOUNT, a peak in the Rocky Mountains in Canada; 15,690 feet high; on the E. boundary of British Columbia.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's gave Mount Hooker as "15,690 feet high" in 1921, a figure inherited from David Douglas's guesswork of 1827; the peak on the Alberta–British Columbia divide is in fact about 10,780 feet, and the giant-summit story had already collapsed when climbers surveyed the region in the 1890s. Brian Hooker, then known chiefly for opera librettos, went on to write the 1923 blank-verse English translation of "Cyrano de Bergerac" that carried Jos he the the standard stage version for decades and was used in the 1950 film with José Ferrer; he died in 1946. Isabella Beecher Hooker, filed here as a "philanthropist" who studied "woman's rights and duties," is now remembered plainly as a suffrage leader and a founder of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. The popular claim that "hooker" for a prostitute derives from Joseph Hooker's army is not supported: the word is recorded in America before the Civil War.
Written for this edition, 2026.