Veteran: Civil war (CSA)
h/o Georgie Carroll
Educated in Little Rock, then Franklin school in Nashville, Tennessee, graduating 1856 from Medical College of Philadelphia returning to Little Rock.
Census: 1850, age 17 District 2, Davidson county, Tennessee attending Franklin School.
Census: 1860, age 33(sic) Little Rock Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, her mother and sister.
Was an active Mason and belonged to I O O F.
Investigated the three deaths at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas February 1872 of students from cerebro-spinal meningitis, believing cause was from old Civil War hospital buildings and the water well then used, which caused all to be removed and buildings replaced with a new structure.
Become president of board of examining surgeons for Confederate army during Civil War, one of the eight organizers and first president, Professor and first Dean of the Medical Department of Medical School intended for Saint Johns' College of Arkansas, but due to its declining years joined with Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas) maintaining its facilities in Little Rock. Philo Oliver Hooper was a founder of what is today UAMS, and served as superintendent of the asylum. Incidentally, his own wife was confined there as an inmate.
~ A biography found in Goodspeed.
P. O. Hooper, M. D. The Hooper family, or rather that branch to which the subject of sketch belongs, were early settlers of Arkansas, Alanson Hooper being the first one of the family to locate here, He was born in the "Bay State," in 1787, and after reaching manhood removed to Louisiana, where he espoused Miss Magdaline Perry, a native of that State; and a few years following the celebration of their nuptials, they removed to Arkansas, where the mother died in 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years. The father died in 1850, aged sixty-three. Dr. Hooper, their son, was born in the State in which he now resides, in 1833, and received his literary education in Little Rock and in Nashville, Tenn. After attaining a suitable age and being imbued with a desire to study medicine, he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn., from which he graduated in 1856. Upon returning home, he practiced his profession until the opening of the Civil War, then joined the Confederate army, and was appointed president of a board of examining surgeons, and in this capacity served faithfully all through the war, being at the time of the hostilities in the State of Louisiana. After peace was declared, he returned to his home in Little Rock where he found ample scope for the development of his talents, and soon became one of the acknowledged leaders of his profession, not only in his own, but also in adjoining States. Great credit is due to him for the establishment of the State Insane Asylum, and to him, with a few others, almost wholly belongs the credit of its establishment. He was president of the board of trustees of the asylum until 1883, when he accepted the superintendency in order to see that all his plans were carried out relative to the building, grounds and methods of treating the inmates. After several years of arduous labor, he can now look upon the result of his many weary days of toil with pardonable pride and pleasure, for the institution is a model of its kind and is conducted in an admirable manner. Dr. Hooper is one of the physicians who helped to organize the Medical Department of the Arkansas Industrial University, and was dean of the faculty for some time, and still gives lectures in the college on mental and nervous diseases. He was president of the American Medical Association that met at St. Paul, Minn., in 1883, and now belongs to the State Medical
Society and the New York Medico-Legal Society. He has shown his approval of secret societies by joining the Masons and the I. O. O. F. He was married in the State of Arkansas, in 1859, to Miss Georgie Carroll, a native of Alabama, and by her has three sons and two daughters: Katie (wife of Samuel J. Churchhill), Bernie, Perry, Philo and George.
Census: 1880, age 54 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, six kids and servants.
Known Children
Abonethy Hooper b: 1859 in Alabama.
Katie Hooper b: 1861 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Perry C Hooper b: 1865 in Texas.
Philo Grafton Hooper b: 12 APR 1867 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
George N Hooper b: 1870 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mary Hooper b: about 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Bernie Hooper b: about 1877 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Georgie Carroll
Educated in Little Rock, then Franklin school in Nashville, Tennessee, graduating 1856 from Medical College of Philadelphia returning to Little Rock.
Census: 1850, age 17 District 2, Davidson county, Tennessee attending Franklin School.
Census: 1860, age 33(sic) Little Rock Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, her mother and sister.
Was an active Mason and belonged to I O O F.
Investigated the three deaths at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas February 1872 of students from cerebro-spinal meningitis, believing cause was from old Civil War hospital buildings and the water well then used, which caused all to be removed and buildings replaced with a new structure.
Become president of board of examining surgeons for Confederate army during Civil War, one of the eight organizers and first president, Professor and first Dean of the Medical Department of Medical School intended for Saint Johns' College of Arkansas, but due to its declining years joined with Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas) maintaining its facilities in Little Rock. Philo Oliver Hooper was a founder of what is today UAMS, and served as superintendent of the asylum. Incidentally, his own wife was confined there as an inmate.
~ A biography found in Goodspeed.
P. O. Hooper, M. D. The Hooper family, or rather that branch to which the subject of sketch belongs, were early settlers of Arkansas, Alanson Hooper being the first one of the family to locate here, He was born in the "Bay State," in 1787, and after reaching manhood removed to Louisiana, where he espoused Miss Magdaline Perry, a native of that State; and a few years following the celebration of their nuptials, they removed to Arkansas, where the mother died in 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years. The father died in 1850, aged sixty-three. Dr. Hooper, their son, was born in the State in which he now resides, in 1833, and received his literary education in Little Rock and in Nashville, Tenn. After attaining a suitable age and being imbued with a desire to study medicine, he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn., from which he graduated in 1856. Upon returning home, he practiced his profession until the opening of the Civil War, then joined the Confederate army, and was appointed president of a board of examining surgeons, and in this capacity served faithfully all through the war, being at the time of the hostilities in the State of Louisiana. After peace was declared, he returned to his home in Little Rock where he found ample scope for the development of his talents, and soon became one of the acknowledged leaders of his profession, not only in his own, but also in adjoining States. Great credit is due to him for the establishment of the State Insane Asylum, and to him, with a few others, almost wholly belongs the credit of its establishment. He was president of the board of trustees of the asylum until 1883, when he accepted the superintendency in order to see that all his plans were carried out relative to the building, grounds and methods of treating the inmates. After several years of arduous labor, he can now look upon the result of his many weary days of toil with pardonable pride and pleasure, for the institution is a model of its kind and is conducted in an admirable manner. Dr. Hooper is one of the physicians who helped to organize the Medical Department of the Arkansas Industrial University, and was dean of the faculty for some time, and still gives lectures in the college on mental and nervous diseases. He was president of the American Medical Association that met at St. Paul, Minn., in 1883, and now belongs to the State Medical
Society and the New York Medico-Legal Society. He has shown his approval of secret societies by joining the Masons and the I. O. O. F. He was married in the State of Arkansas, in 1859, to Miss Georgie Carroll, a native of Alabama, and by her has three sons and two daughters: Katie (wife of Samuel J. Churchhill), Bernie, Perry, Philo and George.
Census: 1880, age 54 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, six kids and servants.
Known Children
Abonethy Hooper b: 1859 in Alabama.
Katie Hooper b: 1861 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Perry C Hooper b: 1865 in Texas.
Philo Grafton Hooper b: 12 APR 1867 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
George N Hooper b: 1870 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mary Hooper b: about 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Bernie Hooper b: about 1877 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
Veteran: Civil war (CSA)
h/o Georgie Carroll
Educated in Little Rock, then Franklin school in Nashville, Tennessee, graduating 1856 from Medical College of Philadelphia returning to Little Rock.
Census: 1850, age 17 District 2, Davidson county, Tennessee attending Franklin School.
Census: 1860, age 33(sic) Little Rock Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, her mother and sister.
Was an active Mason and belonged to I O O F.
Investigated the three deaths at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas February 1872 of students from cerebro-spinal meningitis, believing cause was from old Civil War hospital buildings and the water well then used, which caused all to be removed and buildings replaced with a new structure.
Become president of board of examining surgeons for Confederate army during Civil War, one of the eight organizers and first president, Professor and first Dean of the Medical Department of Medical School intended for Saint Johns' College of Arkansas, but due to its declining years joined with Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas) maintaining its facilities in Little Rock. Philo Oliver Hooper was a founder of what is today UAMS, and served as superintendent of the asylum. Incidentally, his own wife was confined there as an inmate.
~ A biography found in Goodspeed.
P. O. Hooper, M. D. The Hooper family, or rather that branch to which the subject of sketch belongs, were early settlers of Arkansas, Alanson Hooper being the first one of the family to locate here, He was born in the "Bay State," in 1787, and after reaching manhood removed to Louisiana, where he espoused Miss Magdaline Perry, a native of that State; and a few years following the celebration of their nuptials, they removed to Arkansas, where the mother died in 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years. The father died in 1850, aged sixty-three. Dr. Hooper, their son, was born in the State in which he now resides, in 1833, and received his literary education in Little Rock and in Nashville, Tenn. After attaining a suitable age and being imbued with a desire to study medicine, he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn., from which he graduated in 1856. Upon returning home, he practiced his profession until the opening of the Civil War, then joined the Confederate army, and was appointed president of a board of examining surgeons, and in this capacity served faithfully all through the war, being at the time of the hostilities in the State of Louisiana. After peace was declared, he returned to his home in Little Rock where he found ample scope for the development of his talents, and soon became one of the acknowledged leaders of his profession, not only in his own, but also in adjoining States. Great credit is due to him for the establishment of the State Insane Asylum, and to him, with a few others, almost wholly belongs the credit of its establishment. He was president of the board of trustees of the asylum until 1883, when he accepted the superintendency in order to see that all his plans were carried out relative to the building, grounds and methods of treating the inmates. After several years of arduous labor, he can now look upon the result of his many weary days of toil with pardonable pride and pleasure, for the institution is a model of its kind and is conducted in an admirable manner. Dr. Hooper is one of the physicians who helped to organize the Medical Department of the Arkansas Industrial University, and was dean of the faculty for some time, and still gives lectures in the college on mental and nervous diseases. He was president of the American Medical Association that met at St. Paul, Minn., in 1883, and now belongs to the State Medical
Society and the New York Medico-Legal Society. He has shown his approval of secret societies by joining the Masons and the I. O. O. F. He was married in the State of Arkansas, in 1859, to Miss Georgie Carroll, a native of Alabama, and by her has three sons and two daughters: Katie (wife of Samuel J. Churchhill), Bernie, Perry, Philo and George.
Census: 1880, age 54 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, six kids and servants.
Known Children
Abonethy Hooper b: 1859 in Alabama.
Katie Hooper b: 1861 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Perry C Hooper b: 1865 in Texas.
Philo Grafton Hooper b: 12 APR 1867 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
George N Hooper b: 1870 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mary Hooper b: about 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Bernie Hooper b: about 1877 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Georgie Carroll
Educated in Little Rock, then Franklin school in Nashville, Tennessee, graduating 1856 from Medical College of Philadelphia returning to Little Rock.
Census: 1850, age 17 District 2, Davidson county, Tennessee attending Franklin School.
Census: 1860, age 33(sic) Little Rock Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, her mother and sister.
Was an active Mason and belonged to I O O F.
Investigated the three deaths at Saint Johns' College of Arkansas February 1872 of students from cerebro-spinal meningitis, believing cause was from old Civil War hospital buildings and the water well then used, which caused all to be removed and buildings replaced with a new structure.
Become president of board of examining surgeons for Confederate army during Civil War, one of the eight organizers and first president, Professor and first Dean of the Medical Department of Medical School intended for Saint Johns' College of Arkansas, but due to its declining years joined with Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas) maintaining its facilities in Little Rock. Philo Oliver Hooper was a founder of what is today UAMS, and served as superintendent of the asylum. Incidentally, his own wife was confined there as an inmate.
~ A biography found in Goodspeed.
P. O. Hooper, M. D. The Hooper family, or rather that branch to which the subject of sketch belongs, were early settlers of Arkansas, Alanson Hooper being the first one of the family to locate here, He was born in the "Bay State," in 1787, and after reaching manhood removed to Louisiana, where he espoused Miss Magdaline Perry, a native of that State; and a few years following the celebration of their nuptials, they removed to Arkansas, where the mother died in 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years. The father died in 1850, aged sixty-three. Dr. Hooper, their son, was born in the State in which he now resides, in 1833, and received his literary education in Little Rock and in Nashville, Tenn. After attaining a suitable age and being imbued with a desire to study medicine, he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn., from which he graduated in 1856. Upon returning home, he practiced his profession until the opening of the Civil War, then joined the Confederate army, and was appointed president of a board of examining surgeons, and in this capacity served faithfully all through the war, being at the time of the hostilities in the State of Louisiana. After peace was declared, he returned to his home in Little Rock where he found ample scope for the development of his talents, and soon became one of the acknowledged leaders of his profession, not only in his own, but also in adjoining States. Great credit is due to him for the establishment of the State Insane Asylum, and to him, with a few others, almost wholly belongs the credit of its establishment. He was president of the board of trustees of the asylum until 1883, when he accepted the superintendency in order to see that all his plans were carried out relative to the building, grounds and methods of treating the inmates. After several years of arduous labor, he can now look upon the result of his many weary days of toil with pardonable pride and pleasure, for the institution is a model of its kind and is conducted in an admirable manner. Dr. Hooper is one of the physicians who helped to organize the Medical Department of the Arkansas Industrial University, and was dean of the faculty for some time, and still gives lectures in the college on mental and nervous diseases. He was president of the American Medical Association that met at St. Paul, Minn., in 1883, and now belongs to the State Medical
Society and the New York Medico-Legal Society. He has shown his approval of secret societies by joining the Masons and the I. O. O. F. He was married in the State of Arkansas, in 1859, to Miss Georgie Carroll, a native of Alabama, and by her has three sons and two daughters: Katie (wife of Samuel J. Churchhill), Bernie, Perry, Philo and George.
Census: 1880, age 54 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with wife, six kids and servants.
Known Children
Abonethy Hooper b: 1859 in Alabama.
Katie Hooper b: 1861 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Perry C Hooper b: 1865 in Texas.
Philo Grafton Hooper b: 12 APR 1867 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
George N Hooper b: 1870 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Mary Hooper b: about 1873 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Bernie Hooper b: about 1877 Little Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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