“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


THOMAS HOOPER,  farmer, Secs. 12, 13, 14 and 23;  P.O. Palmyra; 
born in Cornwall, Eng., Jan. 1, 1825; came to America and Palmyra in 
1845; worked as a stonemason in Janesville in 1846; in Milford in 1847; 
in Janesville in 1848; again in Milford in 1849; in 1850, he went 
overland to California where he was a successful gold miner; returning 
to the town of Sullivan, he resided until 1864; built the first grist-mill in 
the village of Rome in 1857; settled on the farm he now owns of 315 
acres in 1864.  Mr. Hooper married Miss Harriet Watt, of Somersetshire, 
Eng., May 29, 1854; they have nine children – Frank G., Betsy, Thomas, 
Hattie, Emma, Edwin, Jennie, Ida and Rose.  Is Independent in politics, 
and is in sympathy with the Episcopal Church, which was the Church of 
his boyhood.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)