Hooper, Edwin Ewing
Edwin Ewing Hooper Soundex Code H160
Edwin Ewing Hooper, secretary Lumbermen's Association;
born in: Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, September 2, 1851;
son of: George Hooper and Amanda Hooper, nee: Amanda Alexander
education: High School in Nashville, Tennessee;
married: first wife unknown; 2d wife: Hattie G. Hooper, nee: Hattie G. Hahn, of Chicago, on Monday, October 3, 1887;
children: Wylie E. Hooper, John W. Hooper, (by first marriage), Mildred Hooper (Mrs. James S. Kemper), Henry Hooper.
Clerk: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis R.R., 1865-71;
general agent: "Green Line," 1871-6;
general agent: St. Louis & Southeastern R.R., at Evansville, Indiana, 1876-8;
general traveling agent: Evansville & Terre Haute R.R., 1878-81; Edwin Ewing Hooper
general traveling agent: Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C.& E.I. Railroad), at Chicago, 1881-9;
secretary Chicago Lumber Dealers' Association, 1889;
secretary: Lumbermen's Association. since 1890;
secretary: Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Insurance Company since 1912.
Club: Chicago Whist Club.
Office: 11 S. LaSalle Street
Home: 6761 N. Sheridan Road, 1917, 1919.
Source: Book of Chicagoans, 1917; Rogers Park Directory, 1919, page 38.
