Printer, Omaha Daily News

1918 Draft Registration Records show John Young Hooper's occupation as printer, and his employer as the Omaha Daily News. The Omaha Daily News published from 1899 to 1927.

Civil War Pension File for John Young Hooper, Part 1

Here is the first part of the Civil War Pension File for John Young Hooper. See my previous post for some information about the file.

By the way, I received these files from the National Archives. It took about two months and about $150. Small price to pay!

Some highlights in this section are on page 40, letter from Charles M. Hooper (John's brother) and page 43, letter from James B. Sly (John's uncle).

John Young Hooper Civil War Pension File Part 1

Civil War Pension File for John Young Hooper, continued

I was surprised to realize that I have no entries on John Young Hooper as I've dug up lots of stuff on him. Since I promised the civil war pension file I have for him to a few folks, I'll put it here in my first post on John Young.

John Young Hooper (the elder) was born in 1841 and died at the age of 50. He served in the Civil War as bugler for the Nebraska Infantry and Calvary. During his service, he suffered a scrotal hernia (google "scrotal hernia" to see how hideously painful this injury must be!) John Young did not report the injury during the war and when he became increasingly ill from the injury after the war, he began the process for trying to secure a pension. When he died, leaving six children under the age of 15, his wife Helen Baldwin continued the fight to gain a pension. Apparently, Helen's application was denied several times. Helen persevered with the appeals and eventually won the widow's pension.

There's a lot of mundane stuff in the file, but there are also some really amazing documents and information in here, too. This is the second part of the pension file.

John Young Hooper civil war pension file Part 2