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 HALL. HALL. 275 three years, and took sole charge of the business, buying all the machinery, selling his goods in Boston and New York. In 1S70 he bought the whole property where he still lives. His business was prosperous up to 1873 ; from then to 1887, it being poor, he turned to the insur- ance business, during this time spending most of two years in copying and arrang- ing the town records from 1649 to 1875, a work which has been much commended by those competent to judge. He was ap- pointed postmaster of Medfield in 1880, holding the office five years. He is now general manager of the Excelsior Straw "iks in Medfield. Mr. Hale was married in North Attle- borough in March, 1848, to Eliza B., daugh- ter of William and Betsey (Cole) Grover, of Mansfield, who died in 185 1. Of this union two children were born, who died in infancy. His second marriage was in Med- way, in June, 1852, to Mary Jane, daugh- ter of George and Mary (Tolman) Plimp- ton, of Sharon. Of this union there were four children : Merton and Clarence, who died young at Foxborough, Charles Everett (drowned in 1881, aged nineteen), and Lillian J. (now wife of Dr. C. E. Bigelow, of Leominister). Mr. Hale's public spirit has been re- warded by being called upon to serve his fellow-citizens in the several capacities of selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor, and town clerk. He has been a member of the school committee for nine years, and justice of the peace nineteen years. His judgment and business tact have fre- quently been recognized in local affairs of importance — notably in serving as chair- man of the committees for the remodeling of the Baptist church, with which he has long been connected, and the rebuilding of the Medfield town house. HALL, Granville Stanley, son of Granville Bascom and Abby (Beals) Hall, was born in Ashfield, Franklin county, in 1846. His preparatory educational training was received in Sanderson's Academy, Ashfield, and in Williston Seminary, Eas't- hampton, where he was fitted for college. He was graduated from Williams College in the class of 1867. Subsequently he spent five years in study in the universities of Europe. Entering upon his life work as an edu- cator, he first accepted a professorship in Antioch College, Ohio, from which he was called to Harvard, and later to Johns Hopkins University, where he has held the chair of psychology seven years. Professor Hall has also held the position, to which none but the most critical scholar may aspire, that of editor of the " American Journal of Philology," which was founded by him. He was married in Berlin, Germany, in 1S80, to Cornelia, daughter of James and Julia (Brigham) Fisher. Of this union are two children : Robert and Julia Hall. Professor Hall was the unanimous choice of the trustees of the new Clark Uni versit v, lately founded by Jonas G. Clark, Worces- ter, as the first man to fill the presidential chair. He needs no introduction to the scholars of this country. The recognized head of one of the great departments of human knowledge and research, he ex- changes one place of usefulness and influ- ence for another, and becomes the respon- sible head of the intellectual side of this new university. President Hall, immediately after closing his professorship in the early summer of 1 888, assumed the duties of his new position. In August of the same year he went to Europe, where he spent ten months in the careful study of the systems of all the leading universities on the Continent and in England. He returned in the spring of 1SS9, and formulated the general scheme of the university, which, when carried out, will place this institution on an elevated plane — having no academic course, but rather supplying advantages for posl graduate study, research, and publication, in the line of pure and abstract science, and in extending the boundaries of human knowledge. HALL, James Morris Whiton, son of Samuel Whitney and Margaret Bass (Knowlton) Hall, was born in Boston, September 28, 1842. Lyman school, East Boston, Boston Latin school, and Roxbury Latin school furnished the advantages for his education. He began business life as clerk with the house of Edward D. Peters is; Co., who were succeeded by George H. Peters & Co., and after dissolution, the present firm of W'ellman, Hall & Co., wholesale lumber merchants. Mr. Hall is at the present time the head of the Boston house. He was married in West Medford, June 23, 1868, to Orianna Antoinette, daughter of Horace A. and Sarah (Smith) Breed. Eight children have blessed this union : Alice Knowlton, Marion Breed, Helen Whitney, Orianna Phillips, James Ran- dolph, Stanley Breed, Henry Bass, and Horace Whitney Hall.