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HALL


English periodicals and journals. He also ren- dered literary aid from 1859 to the Oxford Eng- lisli Dictionary, whit-h was still in progress in 11)00. He died in Marlesford, Suffolk, Eng., Feb. 1, 1901.

HALL, Frederick, educator, was born in Gratou, Vt.. Sept. 30, 1779; son of Rev. William Hall, Harvard, 17G0, first pastor of the Congre- gational church at Grafton (then Tomlinson) Vt.; grandson of Caleb and Jerusha (Tippetts) Hall; great-grandson of John and Mary (Kim ball) Hall; and great^ grand.son of Richard Hall, who settled in Bradford, Mass., as early as 1673. Frederick was graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1803; A.M., 1806. He was preceptor of Moor's school, Dartmouth, 1803-04; a tutor in the college, 1804_0.5; a tutor at Middlebury college, Vt., 1805- 06; professor of mathematics and natural philoso- phy at Middlebury, 1806-24; and professor of chemistry and natural science at Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., 1824-28. After graduating from the medical college at Castleton, Vt., in 1827, he practised for a time and then founded and became president of Mt. Hope college, Md. He was pro- fessor of chemistry and pharmacy at the medical department, Columbian university, Washington, D.C., 1840-43. He was twice married: first to Fanny, daughter of the Hon. Jonathan Brace, who died in 1826; and secondly, in 1828, to Clar- issa, widow of Roland Lee. He was elected a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Middlebury in 1806 and from Harvard in 1810; that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1841, and at his death he left a bequest to Dartmouth of several thousand dollars and a cabinet of minerals. Among other works he published: Eulogy on Solomon M. Allen (1818); Statistics of the Town of Middlebtiry in the State of Vermont (1821); Catalogue of Minerals found in the State of Vermont (1824); Letters from the East and from the West (1840). He died in Peru, 111., July 27, 1843.

HALL, Qeorge Henry, painter, was born in Manchester, N.H., Sept. 21, 1825; son of Patten and Parthenia (Coburn) Hall; grandson of John and Mary (Patten) Hall, and of Joseph and Huldah (Wilson) Coburn, and a descendant of Thomas and Mary (Dickey) Hall, who came to America in 1718 with a colony from Londonderry, in the North of Ireland, and .settled on land in New Hampshire which had been granted them, and which they named Londonderry; afterward divided into four towns, one of which is Man- chester. In 1829 George Henry Hall removed to Boston with his widowed mother. He began to paint at the age of sixteen. In 1849 he went to Germany, studied art at the Dusseldorf acad- emy and afterward in Paris and Rome. On his return to America in 1852 he went to New York, ■where he made his permanent residence, with


occasional trips abroad. He was elected an asso- ciate of the National academy of design in 1853 and an academician in 1868. Among his paint- ings are: The April Shower, three girls under an umbrella, engraved in Paris by Goupil, in 1855; Thursday Fair at Se- ville (1860); A Young Lady of Seville and her Duenna (1861); The Precious Lading (1867); The Roman Fountain (1873); A Rug Bazaar at Cairo (1877); Oven at Pom- peii (1882); Luna, and Nymph of the Blue Grotto (1886). His work consists chiefly of figure painting from Italian and Spanish subjects. He also acquired reputation as a fruit and flower painter.

HALL, Granville Stanley, educator and author, was born at Ashfield, Mass., Feb. 1, 1846; son of Granville Bascom and Abigail (Beals) Hall; grandson of Thomas and Rachel (Howes) Hall and of Robert and Abby (Vining) Beals: and a descendant of John Hall, who emigrated from Coventry, England, to


Charlestown, in 1630, also of John Alden, William Brewster and five other Mayflower im- migrants. He pre- pared for college at Sanderson academy, Ashfield, and Willis- ton seminary, and was graduated from Williams A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870. He at- tended Union theo- logical seminary, 1867-68, studied in Europe, 1869-70, and was graduated at Union tlieological seminary in 1871. He was professor of philosophy at Antioch college, 1872 -76; instruc- tor in English at Harvard, 1876-77, and received from Harvard the degree of Ph.D. in 1878; again studied in Europe, 1878-80; was lecturer at Har vard, 1880-83; lecturer on the history of philoso- phy at Williams, 1881-84; professor of p.sychology and pedagogy, Johns Hopkins, 1881-88; visited Europe again, and became president of Clark uni- versity and professor of psychology, Worcester, Mass., in 1889. He founded and became editor of the American Journal of Psychology in 1887, and


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