Frank Arthur Hooker, jurist, was born in Hartford. Conn., Jan. 16, 1844; son of James Sedgwick and Camilla (Porter) Hooker; grandson of Dr. Nathaniel and Abigail (Eggleston) Hooker, of Hartford, Conn., and of Reuben Porter, Jr., and Lucy (Field) Porter, and a descendant in the eighth generation of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the immigrant. He removed with his parents to Maumee City, Ohio, in 1856, and later to Defiance, Ohio. He received his early education in the public schools of Ohio, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan. In 1865, He was admitted to the bar and practiced at Bryan, Ohio, and subsequently at Charlotte, Mich. He was superintendent of schools of Eaton County; prosecuting attorney for two terms; was appointed judge of the fifth judicial court in 1878; was elected circuit judge, and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court in 1892, and elected, April 3, 1893, for a full term of ten years.

Source for bio: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, by Rossiter Johnson, John Robert Brown, Vol. V, 1904

Frank Arthur Hooker, jurist, was born in Hartford. Conn., Jan. 16, 1844; son of James Sedgwick and Camilla (Porter) Hooker; grandson of Dr. Nathaniel and Abigail (Eggleston) Hooker, of Hartford, Conn., and of Reuben Porter, Jr., and Lucy (Field) Porter, and a descendant in the eighth generation of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the immigrant. He removed with his parents to Maumee City, Ohio, in 1856, and later to Defiance, Ohio. He received his early education in the public schools of Ohio, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan. In 1865, He was admitted to the bar and practiced at Bryan, Ohio, and subsequently at Charlotte, Mich. He was superintendent of schools of Eaton County; prosecuting attorney for two terms; was appointed judge of the fifth judicial court in 1878; was elected circuit judge, and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court in 1892, and elected, April 3, 1893, for a full term of ten years.

Source for bio: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, by Rossiter Johnson, John Robert Brown, Vol. V, 1904