L.W. Hooper, M.D., was born February 4, 1839 in [Jackson County] North Carolina, and when twenty years of age came to Dandridge, Tennessee. He received a good academic education, and read medicine with Dr. J.C. Cawood of Dandridge. He then graduated from Bellevue Medical College of New York, and began his successful career as a physician at Newport. Dr. Hooper, it should be mentioned, has earned the money to educate himself by his own efforts. He is the oldest settler on the site of Newport. On April 21, 1870, he married Sarah E., a daughter of William Norton, a native of North Carolina. Both are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he has been a deacon since the church of Newport was organized. He is a Republican, and a Master Mason, and is the youngest of fourteen children born to John and Margaret (Ledbetter) Hooper, natives of Georgia and South Carolina, respectively, and of German-English and English origin. Absalom Hooper, the next ancestor, was a blacksmith, highly respected among the Indians, who gave him the name "Steke Santone," i.e. "Little Keg," referring to his small stature. He was seven years in the Revolution, part of the time as a cannoneer at Charleston, S.C. Margaret Hooper's father was also a soldier in the war for Independence. Our subject's grandfather, Absalom Hooper, received two wounds in the Revolution, one in the knee which made him a cripple for life. His grandfathers were the first settlers of western North Carolina, and were only permitted to stay among the Cherokees by their being blacksmiths. His grandfather Hooper made several hairbreadth escapes. (transcribed from Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, 1886)
L.W. Hooper, M.D., was born February 4, 1839 in [Jackson County] North Carolina, and when twenty years of age came to Dandridge, Tennessee. He received a good academic education, and read medicine with Dr. J.C. Cawood of Dandridge. He then graduated from Bellevue Medical College of New York, and began his successful career as a physician at Newport. Dr. Hooper, it should be mentioned, has earned the money to educate himself by his own efforts. He is the oldest settler on the site of Newport. On April 21, 1870, he married Sarah E., a daughter of William Norton, a native of North Carolina. Both are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he has been a deacon since the church of Newport was organized. He is a Republican, and a Master Mason, and is the youngest of fourteen children born to John and Margaret (Ledbetter) Hooper, natives of Georgia and South Carolina, respectively, and of German-English and English origin. Absalom Hooper, the next ancestor, was a blacksmith, highly respected among the Indians, who gave him the name "Steke Santone," i.e. "Little Keg," referring to his small stature. He was seven years in the Revolution, part of the time as a cannoneer at Charleston, S.C. Margaret Hooper's father was also a soldier in the war for Independence. Our subject's grandfather, Absalom Hooper, received two wounds in the Revolution, one in the knee which made him a cripple for life. His grandfathers were the first settlers of western North Carolina, and were only permitted to stay among the Cherokees by their being blacksmiths. His grandfather Hooper made several hairbreadth escapes. (transcribed from Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, 1886)
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