Individual Details

Name: Sophia HOOKER
•Sex: F
•Birth: 06 OCT 1836 in New York
•Census: 1900 Beatrice, Ward 3, Gage co., Nebraska
•Religion: Congregational Church in Seward county, Nebraska
•Death: 1920
•Census: 1840 Racine county, Wisconsin Territory
•Census: 1850 Kenosha, Kenosha, Wisconsin
•Census: 1860 Pleasant Prarie, Kenosha, WI
Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995 for Walter A. Dole

My great grandmother was Sophia Hooker Dole. Her parents were Mary Ann Derbyshire and Phillip John Hooker. I have a letter to Phillip addressed to him in Cooperstown, Osego County, NY from his sister, Rachel. I would like to find out who their parents were and how they are related to Rev. Thomas Hooker. Phillip John Hooker b. Nov 20, 1811 d. Jan 25, 1885 in Geneva, Nebraska. Sophia's obit stated that she was a descendent of the Rev. Thomas Hooker. Any information that you can find would be greatly appreciated.
--Nancy Johnson

HISTORY OF GAGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, pages 384-385
Mrs. Sophia H. Dole -- More than casual distinction attaches to the personality and record of this venerable and revered pioneer woman, for not only has she been a resident of Nebraska since the Territorial period of its history and endured her share of the hardships and vicissitudes that marked the early stages of development and progress in this now favored commonwealth, but it has also been within her province to found and upbuild in her home city of Beatrice a most prosperous and representative business enterprise -- that conducted under the corporate title of the Dole Floral Company. Though this gracious gentlewoman celebrated in 1917 the eighty-first anniversary of her birth, she still takes vital and earnest interest in the World's work and fortunes and incidental to the activities of preperation for the nation's participation in the stupendous war in Europe she has been busy applying herself in skillful knitting of garments and supplies for the Red Cross service and otherwise "doing her bit" to exemplify the ardent patriotism of American Womanhood.
Mrs. Dole was born in the State of New York on the 6th of October 1836 and is a daughter of P.J. and Mary (Derbyshire) Hooker who were pioneer settlers of Seward county, Nebraska, and whose names merit enduring place on the roster of those who aided in the civic and industrial development of the territory and state. Mrs. Dole was reared and educated in her native state and and after two of her brothers had returned home after valiant service as soldiers of the Union in the Civil War, the entire family came to the Territory of Nebraska, in 1866, settlement being made in Seward county, the father, two sons, and two daughters taking homesteads. The comparative isolation and and the primitive conditions that marked the life of Mrs. Dole during the pioneer period of her residence in Nebraska, could not in the least curb her intellectual activity or her ambitions, and she has grown in mental stature with the passing years, has shown abiding human sympathy and tolerance and has manifested her stewardship in kindly words and kindly deeds. Mrs. Dole has been a member of the Congregational church since she was fourteen years of age, and has exemplified her Christian faith in her daily life. Her marriage to J. G. Dole was solemnized in 1869, and her husband devoted the major part of his active career to brick manufacturing, he having been a resident of Beatrice at the time of his death, April 19, 1903.
Mrs. Dole has maintained her home at Beatrice, judicial center of Gage county, since 1899, and in establishing and developing the now extensive business of the Dole Floral Company she has demonstrated not only her executive ability and mature judgement, but also exemplified her desire to provide for humanity the gracious natural products that make for beauty and good cheer. In her venerable years she is sustained and comforted by the filial devotion of her five children, concerning whom the following brief data are available; Edward W. is engaged in farming; Walter A., who was long and actively associated with the Dole Floral company, has sold his property interests at Beatrice and is, at the time of this writing, in the winter of 1917, making provisions to establish his home in the state of Georgia; Anna D. is the wife of George M. Johnston, who is Manager of the Dole Floral Company; Ella S. is the wife of Frederick Von Buskirk who is a successful farmer of Gage county; and Elbert J. is engaged in the photographic business in the city of Lincoln, this state.

Birth	6 Oct 1836	New York
Census (family)-shared	17 Jul 1850	(Phillip John Hooker and Mary Anna Derbyshire) Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Census (family)-shared	19 Jul 1860	(Phillip John Hooker and Mary Anna Derbyshire) Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Marriage	1869	Josiah Greenleaf Dole
Census (family)	21 Jun 1880	Seward County, Nebraska - Josiah Greenleaf Dole
Census (family)	8 Jun 1900	Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska - Josiah Greenleaf Dole
Census (family)-shared	29 Apr 1910	(Walter Amner Dole and Sarah Ellen "Nellie Baldwin" Osborne) Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
Death	27 Jan 1920	Nebraska
Burial		Evergreen Home Cemetery, Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska

Spouse	Josiah Greenleaf Dole (1825 - 1903)
Child	Edward W. Dole (1870 - 1954)
Child	Walter Amner Dole (1872 - 1956)
Child	Anna Mary Dole (1875 - 1971)
Child	Ella Sophia Dole (1877 - )
Child	Elbert Josiah Dole (1877 - 1962)

Father	Phillip John Hooker (1811 - 1885)
Mother	Mary Anna Derbyshire (1814 - 1906)
Sibling	William Clinton Hooker (1841 - 1912)
Sibling	Christopher Derbyshire Hooker (1843 - 1920)
Sibling	Evelyn Theresa Hooker (1845 - 1920)
Sibling	Ida Maggie Hooker (1852 - 1886)

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