10 Facts About Franklin Hooper

Franklin Hooper was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of William Hooper and Elvira Pulsifer Hopper, and grew up on his parents' farm.

Franklin Hooper participated in the first biological summer school at the short-lived Anderson School of Natural History, founded by Agassiz in 1873 on Penikese Island, Cape Cod.

Franklin Hooper was a member of the New York City Board of Education and a trustee for the Brooklyn Public Library.

In 1904 Franklin Hooper was one of the founders of the American Bison Society with Ernest Harold Baynes.

Franklin Hooper suggested the inclusion of the Premier of Canada, Earl Grey, as an officer of the society.

Franklin Hooper was instrumental in setting up the Old Rockingham Meeting House Association in 1911, for the continued preservation of the newly restored Vermont church which his great-great grandfather David Pulsipher had helped to found in 1778.

Franklin Hooper married Martha Holden of Augusta, Georgia, in 1877.

Franklin Hooper was the daughter of Peter B Holden and Meritable Emery Holden, ardent abolitionists before and during the Civil War, whose house was part of the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves.

Martha Franklin Hooper was vice-president of the Brooklyn Institute's Domestic Science department in 1909.

Franklin Hooper died August 1,1914, in his family home in Walpole, New Hampshire.