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Hooker, Horace, D.D.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a Congregational minister and author, was born in 1793. He was a graduate of Yale College, and was remarkable for the elegance and purity of his style as a writer. He early, in. connection with Reverend Thomas H. Gallaudet, LL.D., undertook the preparation of religious books for the young. Among them are, The Youth's Book of Natural Theology, in two parts, and a series of twelve volumes of Bible History; also a popular spelling-book and definer. For a period of more than twenty years he was secretary of the Connecticut Missionary Society; also for several years chaplain of the insane retreat at Hartford, where he died, December 17, 1864. See Appleton's Annual Cyclop. 1864, page 623.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Hooker, Horace, D.D.'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​h/hooker-horace-dd.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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