Named for a New England farming family who settled here in the 1870s. John W. (1825-1887) and Adeline M. (1827-1900) Hooper both hailed from Vermont. By 1854, they were living in Orange, NH, where they sired four children: Truman, Arthur, Alice, and Nellie. After a few years in Worcester, MA, the Hoopers came to Los Angeles in December 1873 and bought a 50 acre orange grove near present-day Compton Avenue and 27th Street. (Compton Avenue was called Orange Avenue back then.) The family got rich by obtaining a large tract of land for $1.25 per acre, then selling it when it ballooned to $10,000 per acre. Hooper Avenue was named in 1894.
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