Son of Charles Beecher and grandson of Lyman Beecher. After his graduation from Bowdoin college, in 1862, he enlisted in the 16th Maine volunteers, and was made sergeant of his company. He was promoted to be 2d and 1st lieutenant, and served in the army of the Potomac. His first battle was Fredericksburg. At Gettysburg he sustained severe wounds, and was transferred to the veteran reserve corps. When a lieutenant and acting adjutant-general, he was on duty in the Freedmen's bureau in Washington. At the end of the war he was given a lieutenant's commission in the regular army, was assigned to frontier duty in Kansas, and saw active service in Indian campaigns. In July, 1866, he was promoted 1st lieutenant, U.S.A., and was killed in an encounter with the Indians near Fort Wallace, Kansas, Sept. 17, 1868. BDNA

HOOKER, Isabella Beecher, philanthropist, was born in Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 22, 1822; daughter of ¤Lyman and Harriet (Porter) Beecher, She was educated at the schools of her sister ¤Catharine in Hartford, Conn., and in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was married in 1841 to John Hooker, a lawyer of Hartford, and became a student of social, political and religious questions. When she reached middle life she became, on a careful study of its phenomena, a believer in spiritualism. In later life she gave in different cities and towns throughout the New England and Middle states "Conversations" on current topics, which became popular, especially in women's clubs and for parlor entertainment. She is the author of: Womanhood, its Sanctities and Fidelities (1873); The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States (1888), an address before the International Council of Woman, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888, and magazine articles. BDNA

He was a Congregational clergyman at Elmira, NY (1854-1900), and a pioneer in the "institutional church" movement.