Hooker, Edward William, Dd

Hooker, Edward William, D.D.

a Congregational minister, son of Reverend Asahel Hooker, was born at Goshen, Connecticut, November 24, 1794. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1814, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1817; was ordained at Green Farms, August 15, 1821, over which church he remained pastor until 1829, when he became associate general agent of the American Temperance Society, and was also editor of the Journal of Humanity. He was installed pastor of the Church at Bennington, Vermont, February 22, 1832, and was dismissed in the spring of 1844. From August 25 of the latter year, for four years, he was professor of sacred rhetoric and ecclesiastical history in the Theological Inustitute of Connecticut, at East Windsor Hill. From 1849 to 1856 he was the regular pastor of the church at South Windsor; after which, until 1862, he served in the same relation at Fair Haven, Vermont. He died at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, March 31, 1875. Dr. Hooker was a trustee of Middlebury College from 1834 to 1844, and was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1840. Among his published works are, Life of Thomas Hooker: — Early Conversions: — Elihu Lewis, etc.; also several pamphlets, among them, Marks of Spiritual Declension: Plea for Sacred Music: — Believing the Truth: — Character and Office of the Holy Spirit, etc., with various addresses and sermons. He was also a writer for various magazines and other periodicals. See Cong. Quarterly, 1876, page 427.