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Hall, Anne – Hall, Charles Francis

Hall, Anne

artist, was born May 26, 1792, in Pomfret, Conn. Her miniature portrait of Garafilia Mohalbi, the Greek girl, has been considered her masterpiece, and has been engraved repeatedly. She died Dec. 11, 1863, in New York city.

Hall, Anzonetta Crabbe

physician, reformer. She has attained success as a reformer and physician of South Dakota; and was the first woman to serve as judge of election in Dakota.

Hall, Asaph

astronomer, was born Oct. 15, 1829, in Goshen, Conn. In 1879 he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical society of London for his discoveries of double stars.

Hall, Augustus

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 29, 1814, in Batavia, N. Y. He was county attorney in Ohio from 1840 to 1842; and moved to Kessauque, Iowa, in 1844. He was a presidential elector in 1852; and in 1854 was elected to the thirty-fourth congress from Iowa. He was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the United States in 1857; and the same year was chief justice of Nebraska. He died Feb. 1, 1861, in Bellevue, Neb.

Hall, Baynard Rust

educator, author, was born in 1798 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an educator of New Jersey and New York; and the author of A Latin Grammar: The New Purchase of Life in the Far West, long a very popular book; Something for Everybody; Teaching a Science; The Teacher an Artist; and Frank Freeman's Barber Shop. He died Jan. 23, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Hall, Benjamin Franklin

jurist, author, was born in 1814, in New York.

He was a New York jurist, and was chief justice of Colorado in 1861-64. He was the author of The Land Owner's Manual; The Republican Party; and Methodism, Its Source and Power. He died in 1891.

Hall, Benjamin Homer

lawyer, author, was born Nov. 14, 1830, in Troy, N. Y. He was a lawyer of Troy, N. Y., and the author of College Words and Customs; History of Eastern Vermont; and Bibliography of the United States:

Vermont. He died in 1893.

Hall, Benton J

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 13, 1835, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was a representative in the general assembly of the state of Iowa in 1872 and 1873. He was elected a senator in the general assembly of Iowa for a term of four years, from 1882; and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.

Hall, Bolling

congressman, was born in 1769. He was a member of congress from Georgia from 1811 to 1817. He died March 25, 1836, near Montgomery, Ala.

Hall, Chapin

merchant, congressman, was born July 12, 1816, in Ellicott, N. Y. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress.

Hall, Charles Cuthbert

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1852 in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, in 1877-97; and from 1897 president of Union Theological seminary. He is the author of Does God Send Trouble? Into His Marvelous Light; The Children, the Church, and the Communion; Qualifications for Ministerial Power; and The Gospel of the Divine Sacrifice.

Hall, Charles Francis

explorer, author, was born in 1821 in Rochester, N.

H. He was an arctic explorer, and the author of The Arctic Regions; Life Among the Esquimaux; and Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition. He died Nov. 8, 1871, in the arctic regions.