James J. Hooker Monument, Spring Grove Cemetery

James Johnston Hooker was an owner of Putnam, Hooker, and Company, a cotton goods merchant.  He was born in Mt. Carmel, Ohio, in 1946, and died in Cincinnati in 1916.  His home was at 3639 Reading Road in Avondale.  It was demolished to make way for the 1928 construction of the Commodore Apartments.

 

The James J. Hooker Monument

 

 

Graves of James and Mary Hooker

 

 

Cincinnati Enquirer, 8/10/1916

 

3639 Reading Road, Avondale
Location of James Johnston Hooker Home

 

From the Cincinnati Newspaper Reference Book, 1914

 

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Find a Grave, James Johnston Hooker