Hooker, Henry Brown, Dd

Hooker, Henry Brown, D.D.

a Congregational minister, son of Dr. Thomas Hooker, was born at Rutland, Vermont, August 31, 1802. After attending the Castleton Academy, he entered Middlebury College, from which he graduated in 1821. Four years afterwards he graduated from Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained an evangelist, October 10, 1825, and for one year was a home missionary in South Carolina. From May 2, 1827, to May 17, 1836, he was pastor in Lanesboro', Massachusetts; from February 1837, to June 1858, was pastor in Falmouth; from 1857 to 1873 was secretary of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, and continued to assist in the office of that society until his death, July 4, 1881. From 1844 to 1851 he was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education; from 1845 he was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The American Tract Society published eight tracts from his pen; and he also wrote three tracts for the Tract Society of Boston. He was also the author of two Sunday-school books: Plea for the Heathen, and Put Off and Put On. See Cong. Yearbook, 1882, page 33.