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The '''Henry Hooker House''' is a historic home in [[Kensington, Connecticut|Kensington]], [[Connecticut]].
The '''Henry Hooker House''' is a historic home in [[Kensington, Connecticut|Kensington]], [[Connecticut]].


Henry Hooker was the son of Saxa and Clarissa (Stocking) Hooker, and was born September 20, 1809 in Kensington, CT.
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]].


On September 16, 1840, he married Charlotte Lum of the Squantic section of [[Oxford, Connecticut|Oxford]], [[Connecticut]].
On September 16, 1840, he married Charlotte Lum of the Squantic section of [[Oxford, Connecticut|Oxford]], [[Connecticut]].

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Henry Hooker House
LocationKensington, Connecticut
Added to NRHPDecember 29, 1978

The Henry Hooker House is a historic home in Kensington, Connecticut.

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.

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

Hooker was the head of the Hooker Carriage Company of New Haven, Connecticut. He and his family lived in New Haven, but kept the family home in Kensington as a summer residence.

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. [1]

Mrs. Clarissa Hooker died on October 2, 1980 in the Kensington home at the age of 69. [2]