John Hooker (abolitionist)

John Hooker (1816-1901) was an American lawyer, judge, and abolitionist as well as a reformer for women's rights. He married Isabella Beecher Hooker in 1841 and lived in Farmington and Hartford, Connecticut.

With his brother-in-law, Francis Gillette, he purchased 140 acres in 1853, and they established the Hartford neighborhood known as "Nook Farm." It was a community of reformers, politicians, writers and friends; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Charles Dudley Warner, in addition to Gillette and John and Isabella Hooker, were the most famous residents.