Family Life
He married Martha Holden of Augusta, Georgia in 1877. She was the daughter of Peter B. Holden (superindendant of Augusta cotton factories) and Meritable Emery Holden, ardent abolitionists before and during the American Civil War, whose house was part of the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves.
Martha Hooper was Vice-President of the Brooklyn Institute's Domestic Science department in 1909. They had three children: Rebecca L. Hooper born Walpole, March 23, 1877, married William H. Eastman in July 1912; William S. Hooper b. Keene, New Hampshire, June 1880; Franklin Dana Hooper b. Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 30, 1883.
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