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Hall, William T – Hallock, Moses

Hall, William T

lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Bowdoinham, Maine. In 1863 he was admitted to the bar, and has ever since practiced law in Richmond, Maine. He has served as county attorney for six years, and in 1880 was elected judge of probate for Sagadahoc county, and still occupies that position.

Hall, Willis

lawyer, lecturer, was born April 1, 1801, in Granville, N.

Y.

He was elected a member of the asthe assembly in 1837, and again in 1842. In 1838 he was appointed attorney-general of the state, and filled this office for one year .

He was for some time a lecturer in the law-school of Saratoga. He died July 14, 1868, in New York city.

Halleck, Henry Wager

soldier, author, was born Jan. 16, 1815, in Westin Westernville, N. Y. He was a major -general who was general-inchief of the armies of the United States in 1862-64. He was the author of Bitumen, Its Varieties, Properties, and Uses; Mining Laws of Spain and Mexico; Elements of International Law; Treatise on International Law; and Elements of Military Art and Science. He died Jan. 9, 1872, in Louisville, Ky.

Haller, W. D

physician, business man, state senator, was born April 27, April 27, 1846, near East Troy, Wis. In 1871 he established himself in the drug business in Blair, Neb. He was chosen state senator from the tenth district of Nebraska in 1897.

Hallett, Moses

lawyer, jurist, was born in Illinois. In 1874 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Colorado; and in 1877 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Colorado.

Halley, George

physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 10, 1839, in Canada.

In 1884 he became associated in publishin publishing the Kansas City Medical Journal, with which he is still connected .

Halliday, Samuel Byram

clergyman, author, was born in 1812 in New Jersey. He is a congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, assistant of Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth church for nearly twenty years, and the author of The Little Street Sweeper; The Lost and Found, or Life Among the Poor; Winning Souls; and The Church in America and Its Baptisms of Fire.

Hallidie, Andrew Smith

civil engineer, inventor, was born March 16 , 1836, in England. During 1858-68 he designed and built a large number of bridges . He invented a method of transporting freight across mountainous and rugged districts by an endless overhead moving rope, now known as the Hallidie ropeway.

Hallock, Charles

journalist, author, was born March 13, 1834, in York city. He is a journalist of New city, founder of Forest and Stream, and the author of The Fishing Tourist ; Camp Life in Florida; The Sportsman's Gazetteer; and Our New Alaska.

Hallock, Gerard

journalist, was born March 18, 1800, in Plainfield, Mass.

In 1827 he became part owner of the New York Observer, and in 1828 was associated with David Hale in the publication of the Journal of Commerce. He died Jan. 4, 1866, in New Haven, Conn.

Hallock, Jeremiah

clergyman, was born March 13, 1758, in Brook Haven, N. Y. In 1785 he was installed as pastor over the congregational church at West Simsbury, where he remained until his death. He died June 23, 1826, in Simsbury, Conn.

Hallock, Moses

clergyman, was born Feb. 16, 1760, in Brook Haven, N. Y.

Feb. 16, 1760, in Brook Haven, N. Y.

He was first pastor of the church in Plainfield from 1792 until his death. He died July July 17, 1837.