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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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nd work for hisliving. His first employment was as a telegraph operator, andhe was soon put in charge of the Western Union TelegraphCompanys office at Cambridge, Maryland. Two years later, atthe age of seventeen, he was transferred to the same companysoffice in Philadelphia. He remained there only six months. His next move brought him to New York city, where he tookcharge of the private wire of a firm of stock-brokers. In thepanic of 1884 the firm failed, and Mr. Hooper was thrown out ofhis place. He quickly secured another, however, in the office ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company. While he was thusemployed, he was asked by another stock-brokers firm to go toNewport, Rhode Island, and there take charge of its office. Heaccepted the offer, and went to Newport in June, 1884. Threemonths later he was at New Bedford, Massachusetts, where hehad charge of the branch office of a New York firm of brokers.Not long afterward that firm failed, and he was again left with-out a place. 162
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THOMAS DOYLE HOOPEE 163 Mr. Hooper then decided to become his own employer. It wasin 1885, and he was just twenty-one years old. He opened astock-brokers office of his own at New Bedford, and carried thebusiness on with some success. He remained there until thewinter of 1890-91, when he went to Baltimore, to try hisbusiness fortune there and to look after his parents welfare.He spent a few years there, and settled his parents in a pleasanthome for the rest of their lives, and in 1891 came to NewYork city. It should be stated, however, that in 1893 he made a twomonths visit to Chicago. He went thither to sell provisions,but he got there just in time to make a handsome fortune ina whirl of speculation which culminated in a serious panic inwhich many other fortunes were lost. It was that lucky strokethat enabled him to purchase a seat in the New York StockExchange and begin business on Wall Street. Mr. Hooper has since 1894 made his home in New York. Heis a member of the New York, Coloni

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