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its organization" (1805). In 1807 he produced
a copperplate engraving of the Wolfe Tavern
for Prince Stetson & Company, the proprietors,
which is still in existence. The following year,
in conjunction with Gideon Fairman, he was en-
graving and publishing children's writing or
copy books (Newburyport Herald, May 17,
1808), and in 1809 thirteen of the maps in the
American Coast Pilot, published at Newbury-
port by Edmund M. Blunt [#.£>.], carried Hook-
er's name. He was also employed by Little &
Company, the Newburyport publishers, to make
engravings for the first American edition of
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1810). When the
Embargo and the Non-Intercourse Acts of the
Jefferson administration brought "the stillness
of the grave" to Newburyport, Blunt moved his
business to New York and Fairman departed for
Philadelphia. Hooker moved first to Philadel-
phia, affiliating himself there with the Colum-
bian Society of Artists, but later he moved to
New York to assist in the production of Blunt's
Stranger's Guide to the City of New York
(1817). He established himself as an "engraver
and copperplate printer" at the same address as
that of Blunt's "chart store," on the East River
front. He made the city plan for the Stranger's
Guide and became more and more closely iden-
tified with the store. In 1821 he was the proprie-
tor, and in 1822 the tenth edition of the Ameri-
can Coast Pilot, "published by Edmund M. Blunt
for William Hooker," carried an advertisement
of the books, charts, and nautical instruments for
sale at his "Navigation Store." In 1824 he pub-
lished a New Pocket Plan of the City of New
York not only "Compiled & Surveyed" but
"Drawn, Engraved, Printed, Published and Sold
by W. Hooker, Instrument Maker and Chart
Seller to the U. S. Navy." This was followed
about 1827 by a pocket map of New York state,
with various statistical tables in corners and
margins, and in 1831 by one of the earliest maps
of its kind, a chart of the Atlantic Ocean, show-
ing "the character and rout of a Storm which
occurred on the American coast in August 1830."
The city map in Theodore Sedgwick Fay's Views
in New-York and its Environs (1831) was also
his work. By. 1830 he had given up his "chart
and quadrant store" and was calling himself
simply a "copper plate printer and map pub-
lisher." The latest engravings to bear his name
appear with date 1846 in the 1848 edition of Na-
thaniel Bowditch's New American Practical
Navigator.

[J. J. Currier, Hist, of Newburyport, Mass. (2 vols.,
1906-09) ; D. McN. Stauffer, Am. Engravers upon Cop-
per and Steel (1907) ; advertisements in The Am. Coast

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Pilot (ed. 1922); New York City directories; pocket
maps in the New York Pub. Lib. map collection.]

A.E.P.

HOOKER, WORTHINGTON (Mar. 3,
i8o6-Nov. 6, 1867), Connecticut physician and
writer, was a lineal descendant of the Rev.
Thomas Hooker [g.2/.], leader of the first colony
of planters which settled in Hartford, Conn. His
father was John Hooker, of Springfield, Mass.,
and his mother was Sarah Dwight. Following
his graduation from Yale College in 1825 he pur-
sued his medical studies in Philadelphia and af-
terward attended lectures in Boston. He re-
ceived the degree of M.D. from Harvard College
in 1829, then established himself in practice in
Norwich, Conn., where he remained for twenty-
three years, gaining a wide reputation. In 1844
he published an essay read before the Connecti-
cut Medical Society, Dissertation on the Respect
Dm to the Medical Profession which was after-
ward enlarged into a book entitled Physician and
Patient (1849). In 1850 he won the Fiske Fund
prize of the Rhode Island Medical Society with
his essay on Lessons from the History of Med-
ical Delusions (1850), and the following year he
won the same prize with an essay on homeopathy.
Upon his appointment as professor of the theory
and practice of medicine in the Medical Institu-
tion of Yale College, he left Norwich and moved
to New Haven, where he also carried on an ex-
tensive practice. He continued to write, and in
1854 he published Human Physiology, a volume
of more than four hundred pages, designed for
use in colleges and high schools. This was the
first of a series of books intended to popularize
the natural sciences and was followed by The
Child's Book of Nature (1857); The Child's
Book of Common Things (1858); Natural His-
tory (1860); First Book in Chemstry (1862) ;
Natural Philosophy (1863) ; Chemistry (1863) ;
and Mineralogy and Geology (1865)—^ last
three being parts of a series entitled Science for
the School and Family. Some of these works
became widely known and had an extensive sale.
One of his best medical treatises was that on
Rational Therapeutics (1857), which obtained
the hundred-dollar prize offered by the Massa-
chusetts Medical Association. Hooker also wrote
for literary and religious newspapers and maga-
zines, including the New Bnglander, the Boston
Congregationalist, Harper's Magazine, and Har-
per's Weekly. For the latter he prepared in all
not less than forty-six papers. He lectured to his
pupils five or six days in the week during term
time, held private medical recitations throughout
the year, attended his practice, was a director
in the Connecticut Hospital Society and one of
its attending physicians, and in 1864 was elected

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