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Hall, Joshua G

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1828, in Wakefield , N. H. He was a state senator in 1871 and 1872, and a member of the state house of representatives in 1874.

He was United States district attorney from 1874 to 1879, and was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.

Hall, Lyman

physician, governor.

He was a delegate to the continental condelegate to the continental congress from 1775 to 1779, and signed the declaration of independence. In 1783 he was elected governor of Georgia. He died Oct. 19, 1790, in Burke county, Ga.

Hall, Mrs. Mary L

educator, poet, was born May 26, 1839, in St. Helena, N. Y.

She was for twenty years a teacher of penmanship at Attica, N. Y., and is the author of many short stories and a book of poems entitled Live Coal.

Hall, Nathaniel

clergyman, was born Aug. 13, 1805, in Medford, Mass. He parish, Dorchester, Mass., in 1836, and became sole pastor of the First Unitarian held this post until his death. He died Oct. 21, 1875, in Dorchester, Mass. ist, congressman, was born March 10,

Hall, Nathan Kelsey

lawyer, jur- , lawyer, jur- 1810, in Marcellus, N. Y. He served as a member of the New York state legislature, and was a representative in congress from 1847 to 1849. On Mr. Fillmore's accession to the presidency in 1850, he was appointed to the office of postmaster - general, and was subsequently appointed judge of the United States district court for western New York. He died March 2, 1874, in Buffalo, N. Y.

Hall, Norman

manufacturer, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 1829, in Muncy Farms, Pa. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.

Hall, Obed

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1811 to 1813.

Hall, Osee Matson

lawyer, congressman, was born in Conneaut, Ohio.

He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

Hall, Robert Bernard

state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate in 1855; was elected a representative to the thirtyfourth congress in that year, and was reelected to the thirty-fifth congress in 1857.

He died April 15, 1868, in Plymouth, Mass.

Hall, Robert Pleasants

lawyer, author, poet, was born Dec. 23, 1825, in Chester District, S. C. He published a volume of Poems by a South Carolinian.

He left numerous manuscript articles in prose and verse, which include a contempoem on André Chenier; Winona, a legend of the Dacotahs; and The Cherdescribing the scenery in upper Georgia. He died Dec. 4, 1854, in Macon, Ga.

Hall, Samuel

journalist, was born Nov. 2, 1740, in Medford, Mass. He pub- 2, 1740, in Medford, Mass. He published the Salem Gazette in 1781, and in 1785 the Massachusetts Gazette. In 1789 he went to Boston and opened a bookstore, which he sold in 1805 to Lincoln and Edmunds . He died Oct. 30, 1807, in Boston, Mass.

Hall, Sharack Azariah

soldier, educator, state senator, was born July 15, 1835, in Wilna, N. Y. He was captain of company K , fifth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry from 1864 until Lee's surrender.

In 1869 he moved to Wood Lake, Minn., was appointed county superintendent of schools in 1873, and in 1876 was elected a member of the Minnesota state senate senate.