William Hooper

William Hooper ( born June 28, 1742 in Boston, Massachusetts, † October 14, 1790 in Hillsborough, North Carolina), signed as a representative of North Carolina's Declaration of Independence of the United States, making it one of the founding fathers of the United States.

Life

William Hooper's father of the same name had studied at Edinburgh University before he emigrated from Scotland to America. He was pastor at the Trinity Church in Boston and had his son teach at the Boston Latin School. He was at the age of 15 years as a student in the second semester at Harvard College and in 1760 made ​​its conclusion. He studied law and settled in 1767 in Wilmington (North Carolina) down. Before moving to North Carolina, he completed an apprenticeship with James Otis. He took from 1774 to 1776 at the Continental Congress in part. During the Revolutionary War, his plantation Finian on Masonboro Sound was burned down in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina by the British, who occupied Wilmington. Hooper was in 1789 appointed to a federal judgeship, but was only a year working in this office because of his poor health.

He died in 1790 in Hillsboro and was buried behind a small Presbyterian church. In 1894 his remains were transferred to the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in North Carolina, where she alongside those of John Penn were, another of the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina.

His last known residence, the Nash - Hooper House still stands today in the 118 West Tryon street in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Several family members were buried under a monument in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.