Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
I was not able to finish all of the information on the Morrison family in my
first e-mail on Volume III - two more bios included in this volume on the
Morrison family. I love these old bios - Galbreath certainly did a
fantastic job!
Bertha E. - Page 369, Bio of Joseph William Hooke, pages 368 and 369.
JOSEPH WILLIAM HOOKE in his early years was engaged in educational activities, particularly in business college work, and finally resigned his connection with the public schools of Wooster to go into business as secretary of the Peoples Savings & Loan Company, and has been largely responsible for the remarkable growth of that institution during the past twenty years.
Mr. Hooke was born in Logan Co., OH, August 6, 1868, son of Lewis J. and Lucy A. (Moomaw) Hooke. His parents were Virginians by birth, and were members of the German Baptist or Dunkard faith. As such they were strongly opposed to slavery, and when the Civil war came on Lewis J. Hooke, though without any enthusiasm for the cause of the South, took his place as a soldier in the Confederate army as substitute for a friend. In one of the battles he was taken prisoner and exchanged. Very soon after the close of the war, in 1866, he married and came to Ohio, locating in Logan County. He was a miller by trade, an occupation he followed in Virginia and also in Ohio. His home in this state was in Logan County until 1873 when he moved to Delaware Co., IN, and bought a farm near the City of Muncie. He engaged in farming there until 1903, when he sold the farm and retired to Muncie. His wife died at the age of sixty-seven, and he passed away in his seventy-eighth year. He was a democrat in politics, and was the father of four sons and four daughters. In Indiana he helped organize the German Baptist Fire Insurance Company, and served many years as secretary, and he was also connected with banks in Muncie.
Joseph William Hooke was five years old when his family moved to Delaware Co., IN, and he grew up on the homestead farm there. After the public schools he entered Mount Morris College at Mount Morris, Illinois. By natural gifts and by education he became a talented pen artist, and most of his teaching was in that line. He began teaching at the age of twenty, and was supervisor of penmanship and drawing in a number of public schools and business colleges.
His first work as a teacher of penmanship and drawing was done at Bucyrus, Ohio, where he met Miss Bertha E. Morrison. They were married June 20, 1894. In September, 1902, Mr. Hooke came to Wooster, as supervisor of penmanship and drawing in the public schools and he also taught in the summer schools of Wooster University. After three years he resigned, and on July 1, 1905, began his duties as secretary and manager of the Peoples Savings & Loan Company. That company had been organized thirteen years, but its assets totaled only $250,000. In the last twenty years under the able and vigorous administration of Mr. Hooke, the company has built up resources exceeding $6,500,000, and this is one of the largest loan companies in the smaller cities of Ohio.
Mr. Hooke has interested himself in community affairs, being an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, is secretary of the Rotoary Club, a member of the Wooster Board of Trade, and served several years as a director. He is active in the Ohio State Savings & Loan League. He is a member of the York Rite bodies of Masonry at Wooster, being past eminent commander of Wooster Commandery of the Knights Templar, and is affiliated with Lake Erie Consitory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine in that city. Mrs. Hooke died August 24, 1922. She is survived by two daughters, Delia Elizabeth and Mildred Annabelle. Delia is the wife of Raymond E. King, who is assistant secretary under Mr. Hooke in the Peoples Savings & Loan Company.