Edmund F. Hooker (1796-1896)

HOOKER

Posted By: Pottawattamie County Coordinator (email)
Date: 8/26/2014 at 20:48:52

Edmund F. Hooker
(1796-June 7, 1896)

AN OLD STAGER.

Death of Col. Hooker, a Pioneer in Western Stages

Col. E. F. Hooker died yesterday morning in his rooms at the Paxton hotel, Omaha, at an advanced age. Col. Hooker was years ago the superintendent of the old National stage line, with headquarters at Columbus O. He followed the stages west and became superintendent of the Western Stage line, with headquarters in Iowa City and Des Moines. He went to Iowa City in the fall of 1855. Col. Hooker left the Western and went to the coast, where he became the superintendent of Shasta Stage line from Sacramento and San Francisco to Portland, and with a dozen branch lines. He left California, going to Salt Lake, thence to Cheyenne, and later came to Omaha as the live stock agent of the Rock Island road. There was no man in the west better known among stockmen than he. His advanced age, coupled with his service, earned for him a retirement about seven years ago. The remains were taken on the afternoon Rock Island train to Des Moines, where interment will take place tomorrow. For many years, Col. Hooker was a resident of Council Bluffs and well known here, and has many friends in this city who mourn his loss.

Source: Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Monday, June 8, 1896
[Photo of Edmund F. Hooker is on Find A Graves, memorial id #62412272, buried in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, IA]