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Robert William Hooper (standing, second from left) with the members of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Robert William Hooper (October 24, 1810 – April 13, 1885) was an American physician.

Hooper was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He entered the Phillips Academy at the age of 12, and graduated in 1826.[1] He graduated from Harvard College in 1830[2][3] and later studied throughout Europe starting in 1833. He returned to the United States in 1835 and obtained an MD degree from Harvard Medical School in 1836.[4][5][6][7] He also received an MD degree from Queen's University of Ireland in 1861.[8][9] In Ireland, it is often given to those who already hold a doctorate.

Hooper married Ellen Sturgis on September 25, 1837. The couple had three children, all of whom outlived him. After Ellen Hooper's death on November 3, 1848,[4][5][10] he stopped working as a full-time doctor and took care of children himself. His practice after this point was focused on charitable causes. Henry Adams, who stayed with Hooper before the wedding with his daughter Marian Hooper Adams, commented that he was "a good deal of a slave to his two daughters".[11][12]

Hooper worked as a surgeon at the Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary and was a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum for thirty years.[5][10][13] He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society[14] and American Medical Association. He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1871.[15][16]

Hooper died on April 13, 1885, in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 74.[17][18]

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  1. ^ Carpenter, Charles Carroll (1903). Biographical catalogue of the trustees, teachers, and students of Phillips academy, Andover, 1778-1830. Memorial Hall Library. Andover, Mass.: Andover Press. p. 130.
  2. ^ "Harvard college commencement". Christian Register. Vol. 9, no. 35. 1830-08-28. p. 138.
  3. ^ Harvard university. Porcellian club (1857). Catalogue of the honorary and immediate members and of the library of the Porcellian club of Harvard university. The Library of Congress. Cambridge: Printed by Allen and Farnham. p. 40.
  4. ^ a b "Robert William Hooper". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 21. Boston: University press: John Wilson and son: 526–527. 1886. JSTOR 25129840.
  5. ^ a b c Various authors (1886). 1830. H. U. memoirs. University of California Libraries. Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill. pp. 143–144.
  6. ^ Channing, W. (September 1, 1836). "Medical Graduates in Harvard University". United States Medical and Surgical Journal. 1: 80.
  7. ^ Harvard University (1890). Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates. New York Public Library. Cambridge, Mass.: The University.
  8. ^ Report on Condition and Progress of Queen's University, Ireland, 1860-61. University of Southampton. Dublin: Alexander Thom, 87 & 88, Abbey-Street, for Her Majesty's stationery office. 1862. p. 22.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ "Queen's University in Ireland". The Medical Times and Gazette. 2. London: John Churchill, 11, New Burlington Street: 421. October 19, 1861.
  10. ^ a b T., J. M. (1887). "R. W. Hooper, M.D." The Journal of the American Medical Association. 9. Chicago: 767.
  11. ^ Ford, Worthington Chauncey (ed.). letters of henry adams 1858-1891. Internet Archive. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 229.
  12. ^ Kaledin, Eugenia (July 22, 1994). The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 32.
  13. ^ Boston Athenaeum; Bolton, Charles Knowles (1907). The Athenæum centenary. University of California Libraries. Boston: The Boston athenæum. p. 120.
  14. ^ Massachusetts Medical Society (1836). Medical communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Boston : Printed for the Society.
  15. ^ "Report of the council". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 21. Boston: University press: John Wilson and son: 517. 1886.
  16. ^ "Robert William Hooper | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
  17. ^ "Deaths". The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 112 (16): 384. April 16, 1885. doi:10.1056/NEJM188504161121612.
  18. ^ "NECROLOGY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY". The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 113 (27): 657. 1885.
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