Biography
Looker was born on Long Island, New York, and moved with his mother to Hanover Township, New Jersey when he was two years old after the death of his father. He enlisted with the New Jersey militia in 1776 and served out the remainder of the Revolutionary War as a Private.
In 1779, Looker married Pamela Clark, and circa 1788 Looker moved to Vermont and then to New York, working as a school-teacher.
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