HALL
HALL
to Westminster. Vt., in 1783. He was a repre
sentative in the Vermont legislature. 1788. 1791,
1793 and 1808: presidential elector. 1792; a mem-
ber of the council of censors in 1799. and judge of
the supreme court of the stiite, 1794-1809. He
was a charter trustee of Middlebury college. 1800-
1809. On Feb. 13. 178ti. he was married to Mary-
Homer of Boston, and they had seven children -.
Daniel. Mary, Benjamin. Homer. Oliva Rice,
Elizabeth and Timothy. His wife died Feb. 21,
1843. He died in Westmin.ster. Vt., May 17. 1809.
HALL, Lyman, signer of the Declaration of
Independence, was born in Wallingford, Conn.,
April 12, 1724: son of John and Mary (Street)
Hall, and a descendant in the fifth generation
from Jolin Hall the immigi'ant. who came to Bos-
ton about 1630, removed to New Haven colony
and finally settled in
Wallingford, Conn.
Lyman was grad-
uated at Yale in 1747,
received his M.A.
degree in 1750; stud-
ied theology under
the tuition of his
micle, the Rev. Sam-
uel Hall, but changed
his purpose and be-
came a doctor of med-
icuie practising in
Wallingford. He was
married to Mary
Osborne. In 1752 he
joined a colony of
Congregationalists who had immigrated from
Massachusetts and settled at Dorchester and
Beech Hill on the Ashley river. S.C, in 1679.
About the time of his arrival the colony were
changing their locality to Mi-^way, Ga., where
they had oljtained a gr?nt of 22.400 acres of rich
land in what became Liberty county. About 350
whites and 1500 negro slaves made up the new
settlement. In 1758 the town of Sunbury, St.
John's parish, was laid out to provide summer
homes for the settlers who found that the swamp
lands were producing fatal sickness. Here Dr.
Hall built a residence, practised medicine, and
was a friend and di-stant neighbor of Button
Gwinnett who resided on St. Catharine's Island.
He joined the committee of correspondence of
the .sons of Liberty or " Liberty Boys," and the
people of St. John's parish, the only representa-
tive body in the colony of Georgia united on the
question of separation, sent him to the Continental
congress as a delegate, March 21. 1775. He
reached Philadelphia, May 13. 1775, " was ad-
mitted as a delegate from the Parish of St. John
in the Colony of Georgia," but could not be cred-
ited to the colony and while he shared in the
debates of congress he did not vote. On July 6,
1775, when the colonial congre.ss of Georgia voted
to join the other colonies. Dr. Hall was elected a
delegate from Georgia and with Button Gwin-
nett, also of St. John Parish, and George Walton
of Augusta, represented the colony, 1775-79, and
signed the Declaration of Independence. Upon
the fall of Savannah in December, 1778, Sunbury
was captured and Georgia passed into the posses-
sion of the king's forces and the property of all
rebels was destroyed. Dr. Hall, with most of the
other settlei's loyal to the Revolutionary party,
took refuge in the north and resided there till the
evacuation of Savannah in 1782, when he took up
his residence in that city, and resumed the prac-
tice of his profession. He was elected governor
of Georgia in January, 1783, and at the conclusion
of his term of service was elected judge of the in-
ferior court of Chatham county, which position
he resigned in 1790 and removed to Burke county,
where he owned a plantation at Shell Bluff on
the banks of the Savannah river. He died in
Burke county, Ga., Oct. 19, 1790, and his remains
were subsequently removed to Augusta, Ga., and
placed with those of George Walton, beneath the
monument erected to the memory of Hall, Walton
and Gwinnett, on Greene street.
HALL, Lyman, educator, was born in Ameri- cus, Ga., Feb. 18, 1859; son of John E. and Fannie M. (Toole) Hall, and grandson of John Hall. He studied two j^ears at Mercer university, Macon, Ga., and was graduated at the U.S. military academy in June, 1881. He left the army in the summer of 1881; taught in the military school at Kirkwood, Ga., 1881-83; at Edgewood, Ga., 1886- 88; in the South Carolina military academy at Charleston, S.C, 1883-86; was professor of mathe- matics in the Georgia school of technology, 1888- 96, and became president of that institution in 1896. He saw the school grow from one himdred twenty students to over four hundred in 1900, and he succeeded in establishing a department of textiles with an equipment of §50,000. He was married. Dec. 13, 1883, to Anne Tooner Jennings of Charleston, S.C. He is the author of mathe- matical Text-books, including: Firt^t Chapters in AJfjchra (1895); Elrmmts nf Ahjehra (1896), and Ken to E/emnitsof Ahh-hm (ls96).
HALL, Nathan Kelsey, cabinet oflicer, was born in Skaneateles, N.Y., March 28. 1810; son of Dr. Ira and Kate CRose) Hall: grandson of Dr. Jonathan and Martha (Collins) Hall: great-grand- son of Dr. Isaac and Mary (Moss) Hall, and a de- scendant in the seventh generation of John Hall, who came to Massachusetts from England some- time previous to 1639. Nathan's father, grand- father and great-grandfather were physicians. His educational advantages were limited to the district school, and in 1828 he entered the office
