Robert William Hooper (October 24, 1810April 13, 1885) was a prominent Boston physician. Hooper graduated from

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in 1830 and later studied throughout Europe starting in 1833. He returned to the United States in 1835 and obtained a medical degree from Harvard College. Hooper married Ellen Sturgis on September 25, 1837. Friends thought his wife was intellectually superior to him.

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remarked that the coupling was like "that perfume... wasted on the desert wind".de Rocher, Cecile Anne. "Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848)" in ''Writers of the American Renaissance: An A–to–Z Guide'' (Denise D. Knight, editor). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003: 203. The couple had three children, all of whom outlived Hooper. The marriage ended on November 3, 1848, upon Ellen Hooper's death. Hooper worked as a surgeon at the Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary and was a trustee of the

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for thirty years. Hooper provided most of his services free of charge.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hooper, Robert William 1810 births 1885 deaths Harvard Medical School alumni Physicians from Massachusetts