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Show HORACE E. HOOPER, BOOKMAN, IS DEAD MOUNT K1SCO. X. Y. June 14 -Horace Everett Hooper, president of the Encyclopedia Brlttanlca, Ino . and former editor of the London Times died today at his home at Bedford Hills, of heart disease Mr. Hooper, well known ns a publisher pub-lisher in the United States and f.r. u Britain, was born at Worcester Ma8S . Inn ruber 8. 1859. of old New England Eng-land utock Educated In Worcester schools and at Princeton preparatory school, Princeton. N. J.. Mr. Hooper began his business career in the west, forming form-ing a partnership in the book an.) stationery business with Iwo others at Denver, Colo., In 1893 and opening 'stores In several cities. In 1895 he I organized a hook company In New York. Not long afterward he became asso-I asso-I elated with the Encyclopedia Brlt-tanlca. Brlt-tanlca. Through his enterprise, the 19 volumes of the eleventh edition Of i this work were published simultane-j simultane-j OUSly in 1910. whereas it took 11 irs, from 1875 to 1889. to publish ; the ninth edillon. consisting of 25 i volumes |