Person

John Hooper (Hoffer) (Jeffersonville, Indiana, prisoner)

b. 1835?

Clark County, Indiana, prisoner. Native of Germany. Convicted of grand larceny in Dearborn County, Indiana, on September 10, 1859. Prisoner of Indiana State Prison South in Jeffersonville, Indiana, from 1859 to October 10, 1864. Fugitive from justice from the state of Indiana from July 29, 1860, to September 22, 1863.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, p. 479.

Thirteenth Annual Report of the Officers of the Southern Indiana State Prison, Including the Reports of the Board of Directors, Warden, Physician, and Moral Instructor, for the Year 1859, (Indianapolis: John C. Walker, State Printer, 1860), p. 175.

Reports of the Officers of State of the State of Indiana, to the Governor, for the Year 1863, (Indianapolis: Joseph J. Bingham, State Printer, 1864), p. 382, 391.

Eighteenth Annual Report of the Officers of the Southern Indiana State Prison, Including the Reports of the Board of Directors, Warden, Physician, and Moral Instructor, for the Year 1864, (Indianapolis: Joseph J. Bingham, State Printer, 1865), p. 836.

"Department of Correction," Indiana Archives Digital Index Records, accessed August 15, 2023, https://researchindiana.iara.in.gov/DigitalRecords/Detail.html?WORK FILENAME=NDX00166&WORKRECORD_ID=4958.

Citation

Hooper, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205039 (November 12, 2026).

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