Brief Life History of William
When William Hooks was born on 26 August 1836, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Thomas Hooks, was 32 and his mother, Martha Mann Thing, was 33. He married Mary Adams in 1861, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Michigan, United States in 1870 and Detroit Ward 7, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910. He died on 5 May 1918, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Taylor, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- William Hooks in household of George Barton, "United States Census, 1850"
- William, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- William Hooks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · State Capital Moves to Lansing
Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had reasons for wanting a move inland. This move would make the Capitol more easily defensible in case of another war between the British and the U.S. like that of the War of 1812. Proponents of moving the capitol also sought to make the government more accessible to the people throughout the state. Construction began in 1847 on a temporary state capitol building in Lansing. It was a simple two-story wood frame structure, painted white with green wooden shutters and topped by a tin cupola. The building was sold when the permanent capitol building opened in 1879 and, like the first capitol, it was later destroyed by a fire in 1882.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Norfolk): post-medieval variant of Hook , with excrescent -s, or else a topographic name for someone residing at or near some bends in a river or track, from the plural of Middle English hok ‘hook’; see Hook 1. This surname is also established in northern Ireland (Armagh and Down).
Possibly an Americanized form of Dutch Hoeks, a genitivized form of Hoek .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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