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Rev. Thomas Hooker, son of Thomas Hooker, was born in England about 1586. He entered Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1604 and graduated with an M.A. in 1611. He fled to Holland for relgious reasons and immigrated to New England in 1633. The name of his first wife is unknown; they had two daughters. His second wife, Susanna, survived him. They had two daughters and two sons. He died at Hartford, Connecticut, 7 July 1647, age 61. Descendants lived in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and elsewhere.
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface superco
by Edward Burtenshaw Sugden
1873
by Arthur William Dunn, Edward Joshua Ward, Harold Waldstein Foght, Harry Sanger Richards, Luella Angelina Palmer, National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education. Committee on Social Studies, Theodore Leander MacDowell, United States. Bureau of Education, William Adelbert Cook
1915
by George Edward Cokayne
1900
by Albert Dickens, Albert Moore Ten Eyck, Charles William Burkett, Herbert Fuller Roberts, Oscar Erf, Robert Fuller Roberts, George Fouche Freeman, Julius Terrass Willard, Robert Edward Eastman, Vernon Morelle Shoesmith
1907