Background
Hooper, John William was born on October 4, 1896 in New York City. Son of Alfred Frederick and Sophie Dorothy (Schierholz-Freitag) Hooper.
Hooper, John William was born on October 4, 1896 in New York City. Son of Alfred Frederick and Sophie Dorothy (Schierholz-Freitag) Hooper.
Student Townsend-Harris Hall, City College, New York, Pace College, and other specialized courses in accounting, finance and commercial law. Doctor of Commercial Science, Gettysburg College, 1954.
September 7, 1925; children—John William (deceased), Janet Dorothy (Mistress David Paine Osborn). Employed in municipal, real estate and construction work, 1914-1917. Managing accountant Harris, Kerr and Cook, Chartered Accountants, London, and New York City, 1918-1925.
Practiced public accounting as Certified Public Accountants, 1925-1949.
Comptroller, vice president charge finance American Machine and Foundry Company and affiliated companies, 1925-1949, director, 1930-1954. Trustee Lincoln Savings Bank, Brooklyn, since 1943, executive vice president, 1949. president, since 1950.
Director Mundet Cork Corporation, New Jersey, Intertype Corporation, Brooklyn Past chairman local South.S.S. Former member panel War Labor Board Director, former chairman Brooklyn chapter American Red Cross. Director New York City Anti-Crime Committee, Incorporated.
Brooklyn campaign chairman Greater New York Fund, 1952.
Trustee Savings Banks Life Insurance Fund. Trustee, member Executive Committee Wagner College, Staten Island
President Pestalozzi Foundation American, New New York Trustee Brooklyn Institute Arts and Sciences, Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn.
Brooklyn chairman United Hospital Fund, 1950.
Member Savings Bank Association New York (chairman Group V. Mason. Clubs: Downtown, Economic, Union League (New York City).
Married Mabel Kathleen Strachan. Children: John William (deceased), Janet Dorothy (Mistress David Paine Osborn).