Solano County Biographies

THOMAS T. HOOPER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 26, 1811, where he was educated, and learned the 
carpenter�s trade, and worked at the same until 1849, when he emigrated to this 
State, leaving Boston, Nov. 30, 1849, sailing in the ship �Nester;� rounding 
Cape Horn, arrived in San Francisco June 6, 1850; coming direct to Benicia, 
working at his trade until October of that year, when he went to Fort Van Cover, 
Oregon, where he was employed by the Government for six months.  He went to San 
Francisco; worked until August, �51; then went East, and returned to Benicia, 
May, �52; then kept hotel in Benicia one year; then went to San Francisco, as 
clerk in Post-office, on year; returning to Benicia in the fall of 1854, when he 
was appointed Postmaster, and held said office eight years, when he came to his 
present farm, consisting of 1,000 acres, located in this township [Montezuma], 
and situated about three-fourths of a mile north-west from Bird�s Landing, there 
being only a few settlers in the township at that time.  Married Lavina D. 
Proctor, July 20, 1837.  She died July 28, 1863. Thomas P. and George � died 
August 27, 1848 � are the children by this marriage.  He again married, Augusta 
M. Foster, December 27, 1868.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 487