Hall, Thomas Mifflin – Hallock, Mrs. Julia Isabel
Hall, Thomas Mifflin
physician, author, was born Feb. 27, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a successful physician of Philadelphia, and the author of several medical works. He died in 1828 in 1828 at sea.
Hall, Uriel Sebree
farmer, lawyer, lecturer, congressman, was born April 12, 1852, in Randolph county, Mo. He He has served in many state democratic conventions, being chairman of the democratic committee on platform in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses as a democrat.
Hall, W. A
clergyman, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1847, in England. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal church, has been county superintendent of schools, justice of the peace, judge of the probate court, and United States commissioner of the circuit court at Grangeville, Idaho.
Hall, Willard
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1780, in Westford, Mass. In 1811 he was elected secretary of state in Delaware, and held that office three years. He was elected a representative in congress in 1816, and re-elected in 1818, and was again secretary of state in 1821. In 1822 he was elected to the legislature; in 1823 was appointed district judge of the United States for Delaware; and in 1829 revised the state laws of Delaware. In 1831 he was a member of the state constitutional convention. He was the father of the public school system of the state. He died May 10, 1875, in Wilmington, Del.
Hall, Willard Preble
congressman, lieutenant-governor, was born in 1825 in Virginia. He was a representative from Missouri to the thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty-second congresses; was lieutenant-governor of Missouri from 1861 to 1865; and was acting governor for a portion of the time. He died Nov. 1, 1882, in St. Joseph, Mo.
Hall, William
soldier, congressman, was born in 1774 in Virginia. He was a general of militia, and was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1831 to 1833. He died in October, 1856, in Green Garden, Tenn.
Hall, William
state senator, governor, was born in 1774, in Virginia. He was elected several times state representative and state senator from Tennessee, and in 1829 was elected governor. He died in 1856 in Green Garden, Tenn.
Hall, William
soldier, journalist, state senator, was born May 13, 1796, in Sparta, N. Y. In 1821 he engaged in the music publishing business under the firm name of Firth, Hall and Pond, in which he continued until his death. He served also in the state senate during two administrations. He died May 3, 1874, in New York city.
Hall, William A
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Maine. In 1841 he moved to Missouri and in 1844 was a presidential elector. In 1847 he was appointed a judge of the circuit court, and was a member of the Missouri convention of 1861. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy, and was reelected to the thirty-eighth congress.
Hall, William Edward
soldier, state senator, was born May 13, 1796, in Tarrytown, N. Y. About 1846 he rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He was a member of the New York state senate. He died May 3, 1874.
Hall, William P
soldier, was born about 1820. He served in the civil war, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in 1865. He died Oct. 20, 1865, in New York city.
Hall, William T
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Bowdoinham, Maine. In 1863 he was admitted to the to the bar, and has ever since practiced law in Richmond, Maine. He has served as served as county attorney for six years, and in 1880 in 1880 was elected judge of probate for Sagadahoc county, and still occupies that position.
Hall, William Whitty
physician, author, was born in 1810 in Paris, Ky. He was a physician of New York city, and city, and the founder of Hall's Journal of Health. of Health.
He was the author of Health and Good Living; Health and Disease as Affected by Constipation; Fun Better than Physic ; Consumption; Sleep; Guide-Board to Health; Coughs and Colds; Health at Home; How to Live Long; Dyspepsia ; Treatise on Cholera; and Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases. He died May 10, 1876, in New York city. to
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 in the law-school of Saratoga. He died July 14, 1868, in New York city.
Hall, Wilton Augustus
lawyer, was born Sept. 29, 1869, in Hamilton county, Fla. He has attained prominence as prominence as an able lawyer of Fernandina, Fla. , and has filled many positions of honor in his in his county and state.
Hallam, Robert Alexander
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 30, 1807, in New London, Conn. He was an He was an episcopal clergyman who was rector of St. James's church, New London, Conn., from 1835 till his death. He was the author of Lectures on the Morning Prayer; Lectures on Moses; Sovereigns of Judah; Sermons; and Annals of St. James's. He died Jan. 4, 1877, in New London, Conn.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene
poet, was born July 8, 1790, in Guilford, Conn. He was a poet who was for many years a clerk in a New York New York banking house, and subsequently confidential adviser to John Jacob Astor.
His verse has grace and sweetness, but is wanting in positive qualities, and has already largely passed out of remembrance. He was the author of Marco Bozzaris, which is his most famous poem; Fanny; Alnwick Castle, and Other Poems. He died Nov. 19, 1867, in Guilford, Conn.
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 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, Benjamin
ship-master, was born Jan. 18, 1760, in Barnstable, Mass. He established the coasting trade coasting trade between Boston and Albany in 1788, and in , and in 1808 had built the sloop Ten Sisters, which Sisters, which was long the favorite packet sailing besailing between New York and Boston. He died . He died Dec. 31, 1849, in Barnstable, Mass.
Hallett, Benjamin Franklin
journalist, statesman, lawyer, author , was born Dec. 2, 1797, in Barnstable, Mass. He , Mass. He exerted a powerful influence in the demothe democratic party, was a delegate to most of most of its national conventions, and was for was for many years chairman of its national comnational committee. He aided in the nomination of nomination of Franklin Pierce, who made him United States district attorney of Massachusetts .
He died Sept. 30, 1862, in Boston, Mass.
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 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 author of The Little Street Sweeper; The Lost and 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 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 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, 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.