The Henry Hooker House is a historic home in the Kensington

Kensington, Connecticut

Kensington is a census-designated place and section of the town of Berlin in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The Berlin town offices are located in Kensington...

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Berlin, Connecticut

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Henry Hooker

Henry Hooker was the son of Saxa and Clarissa (Stocking) Hooker, and was born September 20, 1809 in Kensington, CT. He was a direct descendant of Thomas Hooker

Thomas Hooker

Thomas Hooker was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts...

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On September 16, 1840, he married Charlotte Lum of the Squantic section of Oxford

Oxford, Connecticut

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Connecticut

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Hooker was the head of the Hooker Carriage Company of New Haven

New Haven, Connecticut

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Connecticut

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He had two children: Frank Henry Hooker, born in New Haven on January 11, 1843; and Norman Albert Hooker, born in New Haven on August 17, 1847.

He died in Kensington on October 3, 1873. http://books.google.com/books?id=r17mNhtcPRwC&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=%22henry+hooker%22+new+haven+carriage&source=web&ots=NjS_1VMZCd&sig=1v2RMhKS1jqw8PYXNQrAHbOQh5A&hl=en

Mrs. Clarissa Hooker died on October 2, 1880 in the Kensington home at the age of 69. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E00E5D6103BE533A25750C0A9669D94619ED7CF

There is a school named after him in New Haven. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/1/89.01.14.x.html

The House

Henry and his family lived in New Haven, but kept the family home in Kensington as a summer residence.

Currently, the house is a private residence. It is located at 111 High Road across from the intersection of High Road and Simms Road in a residential section of town.