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Rh HALL, Christopher Webber, geologist, b. in Wardsborough, Vt, 28 Feb., 1845. He was graduated at Middlebury college, Vt., in 1871, and then became principal of Glens Falls academy. In 1873-'5 he was superintendent of city schools in Owatonna, Minn. He then went abroad and spent three years in scientific study in the University of Leipsic. In 1878 he was called to the chair of geology, mineralogy, and biology in the University of Minnesota, which he still retains (1887). While in Leipsic he performed some lithological work on the geological survey of Saxony, under Credner, and, after being called to the professorship that he now holds, he was appointed assistant geologist on the feological and natural history survey of Minnesota, in 1883 he became an assistant geologist on the U. S. geological survey, and was assigned to the Lake Superior division. He was given the inves- tigation of the crystalline rocks of central and southwestern Minnesota, in which work he is still engaged as far as his professional duties will per- mit. Prof. Hall is a member of scientific societies, and his papers have appeared chiefly as reports of his work contributed to surveys.

HALL, David, printer, b. in Edinburgh, Scot- land, in 1714 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 24 Dec, 1772. He learned the printing business at Edinburgh, and afterward worked in London in a printing- house in which Strahan, who became law-printer to the king, was at that time a journeyman. He came to America about 1747, entered into a part- nership with Benjamin Franklin, which was dis- solved in May, 1766, and then formed another with William Sellers. As a member of these firms he was one of the printers of the " Pennsylvania Ga- zette." The firm of Hall and Sellers were the printers of the paper money issued by congress during the Revolutionary war. Hall also conducted a large book and stationery store on his own ac- count. He was well acquainted with the art of printing, a prudent and impartial conductor of the "Gazette," and a benevolent man. After his death, his sons, William and David, became the partners of Sellers, and afterward the business was carried on in the names of William and David Hall. William was for several years a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. The business was sub- sequently transferred to William Hall, Jr.

HALL, Dominick Augustine, jurist, b. in South Carolina in 1765 ; d. in New Orleans, La., 12 Dec, 1820. He began the practice of law in Charleston, S. C, was district judge of Orleans territory from 1809 till 1812, when Louisiana was admitted to the Union, and was afterward one of its U. S. judges. He resigned his seat on the bench to accept a judgeship of the state supreme court, but was reappointed Federal judge instead, and remained in the U. S. court until his death. In December, 1814, Judge Hall was ordered by the military authorities to adjourn his court for two months, owing to the operations of the British force against New Orleans. In March, 1815, while the city was under martial law, he granted a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Louis Louillier, a member of the state legislature, who was then under arrest, by order of Gen. Andrew Jackson, for exciting a seditious meeting among his troops. Gen. Jackson refused to recognize Judge Hall's authority, and at once ordered Louillier's rearrest and imprisonment, and committed Hall to jail. The latter was released the next morning, and summoned Gen. Jackson to answer for contempt of court in disregarding the writ of habeas corpus, in detaining an original paper, and in imprisoning a judge. The general appeared in person, and, after an argument by counsel, was sentenced to pay a fine of $ 1,000. But congress refunded him this sum. with interest, in 1844.

HALL, Edwin, clergyman, b. in Granville, N. Y.. 11 Jan., 1802; d. in Auburn, N. Y., 8 Sept., 1877. He was graduated at Middlebury college in 1826. From 1831 till 1832 he was principal of an academy in Bloomfield, N. Y., and was pastor of the 1st Congregational church at Norwalk, Conn., from 1832 till 1854, when he was elected professor of theology in Auburn seminary. He occupied this chair until 1876, and was professor emeritus from that time till his death. He published " The Law of Baptism " ( N ew York, 1840) ; " The Puritans and their Principles " (1846) ; " Historical Records of Norwalk " (1847) : " Shorter Catechism with Proofs " (1859) ; and numerous tracts and pamphlets. — His son, Isaac Hollister, oriental scholar, b. in Nor- walk, Conn., 12 Dec, 1837, was graduated in Ham- ilton in 1859, was tutor there in 1861-'3, and in 1864 removed to New York city, where he was graduated at Columbia law-school in 1865, and practised- his profession. He visited Syria in 1875, and was professor for two years in the Beirut Protestant college, but returned to the United States in 1877, and associated himself with the "Sunday-School Times," published in Philadelphia. In 1875 he established the column of " Biblical Research " in the " New York Independent." Since 1884 he has been connected with the Metropolitan museum of New York city, and is lecturer on New Testament Greek in Johns Hopkins university. He was the first to read an entire inscription in Cypriote, and has published an important series of articles on that language and its inscriptions. He is an authority on Greek, Phoenician, Himyantie, and other oriental inscriptions, and in 1876 dis- covered in Beirut a Syriac manuscript of the Gos- pels, Acts, and most of the Epistles, an account of which, with fac-simile pages, he published in 1884. The date of this manuscript is between 700 and 900 a. d. Mr. Hall is a member of various archaeo- logical and biblical societies in this country and abroad, and is the author of " A Critical Bibliog- raphy of the Greek New Testament, as Published in America" (Philadelphia. 1884).

HALL, Fitzedward, philologist, b. in Troy, N. Y., 21 March. 1825. He was educated at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, from which he received the degree of civil engineer in 1842, and at Harvard, where he was graduated in 1846. During his collegiate course he published enough German translations anonymously to fill three volumes. Immediately on leaving college, he sailed from Boston for Calcutta, where he remained nearly three years, studying first Hindustani and Persian, and subsequently Bengalee and Sanskrit. He supported himself by contributing to local journals not only original matter, but translations in prose and verse from the French, Italian, and modern Greek. After residing five months at Ghazeepore, he removed to Benares in January, 1850, and a month later was appointed to a tutorship in the government college there. In 1853 he was promoted professor, and in July, 1855, was transferred to Ajmere as inspector of schools for Ajmere and Mairwara. to which was added the superintendency of the Ajmere government school. His last appointment in India was that of school-inspector for the Sangor and Nerbudda territories, which office he retained from 1856 till 1862. During the Indian mutinies Prof. Hall was besieged for seven months in the Sangor fort. In 1860 he received the degree of D. C. L. from Oxford. Settling in London in November, 1862, he accepted the chair