I received this information. Since it is not my line, I am forwarding it to the list in case it helps someone else. Judith --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:10:49 EST Subject: Re: HOOKER Message-ID: <[email protected]> I came across this on another list and remembered you were interested in the surname HOOKER. The email address is from the submitter, contact them if you want more info. From: [email protected] (Page 360) J.D. HOOKER, b. Chautauqua Co, NY, 1837, son of H.M. and Nancy (Palmeter) Hooker, the father a native of Genesee Co, NY and relative of the General "Fighting Joe Hooker." J.D. Hooker farms as well as has a blacksmith shop run by his sons called Pleasant Valley in Carson Township, Iowa. Carries a full line of instruments of all kinds, especially those required in horse dentistry and surgery; inventor of "Hooker's Cure for Flatulent ("wind") Colic, a most prevalent and fatal disease of horses. J.D. Hooker married 1861 to T.J. Wilson, daughter of John and Jane (Crelling) Wilson, the father from Irish ancestry and born in Scotland, and the other of Northumberland, England. J.D. and wife have children: J.M. a contractor and builder in Chase Co, Nebraska; C.M. at home; Edward D of Chase Co, NE; James D, residing at that same place; Jenny L. wife of Frank Perry; Lewis J. at home; Shockey E., Jennie E., Frederick S.