Tulare County Biographies

Richard Hooper

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007

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	Richard Hooper, deceased, was a native of Cornwall, England, 
and a carpenter by trade. He was born August 7, 1825, and emigrated to America 
in 1856. He was married in England, and brought with him to this country his 
wife and one child, the former dying soon after his arrival in Illinois. For his 
second wife he chose Miss Jane Cox, who was born in Marion, Williamson County, 
Illinois, April 14, 1842, daughter of Thomas Cox of that place. By this latter 
union five children were born, two in California and the older ones in Illinois, 
viz: Thomas R., January 31, 1866; Elizabeth J., September 23, 1867; John L., 
February 19, 1870; Bertha E., March 29, 1879; and Albert M., July 7, 1881. In 
1870 Mr. Hooper came to California, and located in Tulare, where he worked at 
his trade about eight months. He then removed to Kernville, Kern County, and 
engaged on a modest scale in merchandising, at the same time pursuing his trade. 
Richard Hooper, a man of industry and frugal habits, left to his family the 
imperishable legacy of an honorable name, and they sustain the good reputation 
they have ever borne in the community. They have received liberal schooling, and 
have thus far-taken honorable places in the business world. J. L. is at the head 
of the mercantile house of J. L. Hooper & Co., Kernville; and Thomas R. is a 
graduate of Heald's Business College in San Francisco, attended the State Normal 
School at San Jose, and is a member of the Kern County Board of Education. 
Elizabeth J., the eldest daughter, is an accomplished young lady, a graduate of 
the same school, and is a proficient stenographer. Others of the family are 
studious and aspiring.
 
Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, p. 351.