Hale, Silas W – Hall, Charles Henry
Hale, Silas W
soldier, merchant, legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1844, in Bluffton, Ind. While teaching school he enlisted in company A, one hundred and fifty-third regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, and was made sergeant. He has attained success as a merchant; was one of the organizers of the Geneva bank, of which he is vice-president; and has taken an active part in the business and public affairs of his city, county and state. In 1886 he was elected to the state senate of the Indiana state legislature.
Hale, Susan
author, was born Dec. 5, 1838, in Boston, Mass. She was coauthor with her brother of the Family Flight series of travels for young people.
She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton.
Hale, William
congressman, was born in 1764. He was one of the most influential men in New Hampshire. He was a member of congress from 1809 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1817. He died Nov. 8, 1848, in Dover, N. H.
Hale, William
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 18, 1839, in Iowa. He settled at Glenwood, Iowa, in the practice of law; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1863, and re-elected in 1864, 1865, and 1866. He was a presidential elector in 1868; was chairman of the republican central committee of the eighth and ninth congressional districts for a number of years; and in 1883 was appointed governor of Wyoming territory.
Hale, William Bayard
clergyman, art critic, socialist, author, was born April 6, 1869, in Richmond, Ind. He founded the church of Our Savior of Middleborough, Mass.; and is a leader among high church episcopalians. He is the author of The New Obedience, a most notable socialistic document; Phillips Brooks, a Memorial; The Eternal Teacher; The Making of the American Constitution; A Genesis of Nationality; and A Plea for Social Submission to Christ.
Hale, William Henry
physician, author, was born Sept. 5, 1852, in Belfast, Ireland. He has been president of the American Popular Health association; president of the Polytechnic society of Chicago; president of the Health and Home Publishing company of Chicago; and is now general manager and chief consulting physician of the British Medical institute of Detroit, Mich. He is now an honorary member of the British Medical and Surgical society; fellow of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons; treasurer of the Michigan State Association of Physicians and Surgeons; treasurer of the Michigan Medical alliance; and prominently identified with all the leading medical bodies in America. He is the author of Hale's Eclectic Treatment, a work of seven hundred pages; Rheumatism and Skin Diseases; Respiration; Diseases of the Eye; and various other works.
Haley, Elisha
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839.
Haley, Thomas Preston
clergyman, author, was born April 19, 1832, in Lafayette county, Mo. He fills a pastorate in the First church of Kansas City, Mo.
He is the author of a work entitled The Dawn of the Reformation.
Halford, Elijah Walker
journalist, statesman, was born Sept. 4, 1843, in Nottingham, England. He is now editor and proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal. He was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1888; and during 1889-93 was private secretary to the president of the United States.
Hall, Abraham Oakey
journalist, politician, author, was born in 1826 in New York. He was a prominent Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years has lived in Europe.
He is the author of The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman's Christmas Dream; Ballads; and Old Whitey's Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays.
He died in October, 1898, in New York city.
Hall, Alexander Wilford
philosopher, author, was born Aug. 18, 1819, in Bath, N. Y. In 1881 he established the Microcosm, which he made the organ of substantialism, which in modern metaphysics is the antithesis of speculative idealism. He is the author of Problem of Human Life; Immortality of the Soul; and Scientific Arena.
Hall, Allen A
lawyer, journalist, diplomat, was born in North Carolina. He was charge d'affaires to Venezuela from 1841 to 1845; and assistant secretary of the United States treasury in 1849 and 1850. He edited the Republic at Washington; afterward edited the Daily News from 1857 to 1859 at Nashville, Tenn.; and was minister to Bolivia from 1863 to 1867.
He died May 18, 1867, in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Hall, Andrew Douglass
physician, was born July 2, 1883, in Hempstead, N. Y. He has attained success as a physician and surgeon in his native state.
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, Arethusa
educator, author, was born Oct. 13, 1802, in Huntington, Mass. She was an educator in New England, and subsequently in the Packer institute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was one of her early pupils. She was the author of Manual of Morals; Life of Sylvester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; and Thoughts of Pascal, a translation. She died in 1891.
Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alls- Ton
bishop, author, was born April 12, 1847, in England. He is the third protestant episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. He is the author of Confession and the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the Collects; and The Example of the Passion.
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.
Hall, Charles Henry
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 7, 1820, in Augusta, Ga. He was an episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn, rector of Holy Trinity church in 1869-95, and the author of Commentaries on the Gospel; Protestant Ritualism; Spina Christi; The Church of the Household; and Valley of the Shadow. He died in 1895.