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THB1866 Captain Edward William Hooper Signed Partly-Printed Receipt
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Captain Edward William Hooper Partly-Printed Receipt
EDWARD WILLIAM HOOPER (1839-1901). Aide-de-camp on the staff of Union Generals Rufus Saxton, Department of the South and John Adams Dix, Department of the East during the American Civil War from 1862 to 1865. Post Commander and Military Governor in the South Carolina Sea Islands.
November 12, 1866-Dated, Partly-Printed Payment Receipt measuring about 2-7/8" x 7", Signed "E.W. Hooper" as Treasurer of the N.E. Branch Freedmen's and Union Commission, Boston, [MA], Choice Extremely Fine. Shows the receipt of $125 "on acct for support of teacher" from the Northampton Society. Two faint vertical folds, one at Hooper's signature. Of particular interest is the 2-Cent Internal Revenue Bank Check Stamp affixed at left with a round-dated cancellation stamp dated Nov 12, 1886 / Boston, of "E.W. Hooper".
Captain Edward William Hooper (1839-1901), known as E. W. Hooper and also colloquially as Ned, was Aide-de-camp on the staff of Union Generals Rufus Saxton, Department of the South and John Adams Dix, Department of the East during the American Civil War from 1862 to 1865.
Hooper also served as private secretary to General Saxton, during which time he was given the rank of Captain. He was also Post Commander and Military Governor in the South Carolina Sea Islands. Subsequently, he became steward (from 1872 to 1874) and later treasurer (from 1876 to 1898) of Harvard College. Early in the Civil War he enlisted in the army, serving on the staffs of Generals Saxton and Dix. He was sent to Port Royal, South Carolina in March 1862 as part of a contingent of teachers & school administrators from the New England Freedmen's Aid Society, of which his father was vice-president.
He served on the staff of Gen. Saxton in the Department of the South as a Captain from March 13, 1865. He later served on Gen. Dix's staff in the Department of the East in New York and was given a promotion to Brevet Major on Jan 15, 1866.
After the war, Hooper returned to Boston opened an office and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Hooper-Eliot House, a Stick style house built in 1872 for Hooper. After his retirement, Hooper devoted his time to the care of large trust properties and was one of the original trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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