Biographical review of Hancock County, Illinois : containing biographical and genealogical sketches of many of the prominent citizens of to-day and also of the past . -le of^^ilhan^ C. Hooker & Son, and came intoalmost immediate distinction as a mem-ber of the firm. His position at the baris indicated by the resolutions passetl bythe County Judges .\ssociation as givenbelow. Judge Hooker was a member of the In-dependent Order of Odd Fellows, inwhich he liekl various offices and in thework of whicli lie took an active, helpfuland prominent part. He was also ;ictivein the ranks of the Democratic
Biographical review of Hancock County, Illinois : containing biographical and genealogical sketches of many of the prominent citizens of to-day and also of the past . -le of^^ilhan^ C. Hooker & Son, and came intoalmost immediate distinction as a mem-ber of the firm. His position at the baris indicated by the resolutions passetl bythe County Judges .\ssociation as givenbelow. Judge Hooker was a member of the In-dependent Order of Odd Fellows, inwhich he liekl various offices and in thework of whicli lie took an active, helpfuland prominent part. He was also ;ictivein the ranks of the Democratic party andwas identified with the Episco]! churcli,in which he ser\-ed tor a number erf yearsas lay reader. Flis distinctive character-istics were a stmug logical mind, :\marked devotion to every cause which heespoused and a high sense of honor inevery relati<in of life. No better c\ i-dence of his work ;uid the jiosition which. CHELLIS E. HOOKER THE N*W YORKPUBLIC LIIRARY AS-TOR-, r FNOX r I. ? ? HAXCOCK COUNTY. IIJJXUIS. 503 lie occupied in tlie puljlic regard can be,tji\en than in presenting- tlie resolutionsprepared by Judge Carl E. Eplcr amipassed by the County Judges Associationat its meeting in Springfield in resolutit)ns read as follows: A ruling Providence has first takenfrom our number one of the youngest ofour members. Chellis E. Hooker, countyjudge of Hancock county, died at Car-thage, Illinois, July 23. 1901, of larAngealconsumption. He was bom at Carthage,Xovember y, 1S70. and. therefore, he wasnot thirty-one years of age at his untiiue-ly death. He was unmarried. The sonof William C. Hooker, an honored mem-ber of the Hancock county bar. lie wasreared tiie idol of his family. He wasdevoted to his mother, whose gentle in-fluence was reiTioved b\- the hand of deatha few years ago. (Joing west in 1S87. and returning sev-eral years after, young Hooker studiejllaw in his fathe
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