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Hallock, John

congressman, was born in Orange county, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly of New York state from Orange county in 1816 and 1817, and from 1820 to 1821; and was a representative in congress from 1825 to 1829.

HALLOCK, MRS. JULIA ISABEL (SHERMAN), author, was born in 1846 in Connecticut. She is a Connecticut writer and the author of Broken Notes from a Gray Nunnery, a study of country life.

HALLOCK, MRS. MARY ANGELINA (RAY) (LATHROP), author, was born June 18, 1810, in Rowe, Mass. She is a writer of Sunday-school books, including That Sweet Story of Old; Child's History of the Fall of Jerusalem; Child's Life of Daniel; Daniel; The Story of Moses; Bethlehem and Her Children; Beasts and Birds; History of Solomon; and Life of the Apostle Paul.

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