Alice Hooper's great grandfather was Sanford A. Hooper. Sanford was born in New York in 1813. Currently I have no ancestor information for Sanford, but I'm working on it!
Sanford married Mary Harris in 1840, when he was 27. The Harris family was prominent in New York and a relative included a governor of New York. His five children were born 1841-1852 in New York where Sanford was superintendent of the Genesee Valley Canal (more on that later).
Sanford, his wife and four children (one child died young) moved to Belle Plaine, Minnesota in the 1850s. Sanford was a successful businessman there and built this house in 1871, which has its own Wikipedia page. You can still get a tour of the Hooper House, which is owned by the Belle Plaine Historical Society. It is world famous for its second story outhouse
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