John Hooker (abolitionist)

Template:New unreviewed article John Hooker is abolitionist, lawyer, and judge. He married Isabella Beecher Hooker in 1841 and lived in Harford. With his brother-in-law, Francis Gillette, he purchased 140 acres known as “Nook Farm” in 1853. John and Isabella raised three children in Nook Farm. Under his wife’s influence, he fought for women’s right and formed partnership with his wife later in abolitionism. Hooker also gave a hand to Beecher during the initiation of her activist career and the two composed “A Woman’s Property Bill”, published in 1877. Hooker served as a congregational deacon, but with his curiosity, he accepted the Spiritualism belief that it was possible to communicate with spirits. He was also the president of an anti-slavery committee in Hartford and held liberty convention on October 27th, 1846.