LECTURER: Glenn Hooper

• THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN FLEMINGTON
  In honor of Black History Month, Flemington Presbyterian Historian Glenn Hooper will give a lecture on slavery in Flemington followed by a cemetery tour with Leslie Leigh to view slaves' graves.
  Flemington Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Flemington.
  February 8, 2014

Glenn Hooper has lived in Hunterdon County since the age of 15, growing up on a small farm in the Whitehouse area of Readington Township.  He has lived in Delaware Township for the last 50 years.  He is a 1947 graduate of Flemington High School, and is a graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Glenn was employed by American Cyanamid for 40 years, starting as a chemist, then into sales, and retired as Manager of New Product Sales in the Textile Chemical Department.

Since his retirement in 1992 he has written articles for the Flemington Presbyterian Church on the history of the church and the local Flemington area.  He has written a monograph on the stained glass windows of the church and has lectured on various occasions about the windows .  Glenn was instrumental in obtaining individual monuments from the U.S. Government to mark the graves of four Revolutionary soldiers that are interred in the graveyard.  He determined the location of the burial sites of numerous slaves in unmarked graves in the Flemington Presbyterian Church cemetery and was instrumental in the erection of the Slave Monument in the cemetery. Glenn has been the Church Historian for the past 20 years.