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HALL, Isaac Hollister, orientalist, was born in Norualk, Coiiii.. Der. 12, lii'31; son of the Rev. Dr. Edwin and Fanii} (Holliijcer) Hall. He was graduated from Hamilton in 1859, was a tutor there, 18U2-tJ3, was graduated from the law de- partment of Columbia in 1865, and practised law, 1865-75. In 1875 he edited the " Biblical Re- search ■' column in the Xew York Inih'pemlent and later in the sjime year went to Syria, where he was a profes.sor in the Protestant college at Beirut till 1877. He was on the editorial staff of the Sunday Scfwol Times, 1877-84, and was then appointed curator in the Metropolitan museum of

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art. New York city. In 1886 he lectured on New- Testament Greek at Jolms Hopkins university. He was one of the first scliolars to read an entire Cypriote inscription, and published a series of articles in periodicals on the Cypriote writing and language. He was also a student of Greek, Phcjenician, Himyaritic, and other inscriptions and oriental matters, upon which he wrote exten- sivelj". He was elected a member of various learned societies of theUnited States and Europe. He received the degrees of Ph.D. from Hamilton in 1876, L.H.D. from Columbia in 1887, and Litt.D. from Trinity college. Dublin, in 1892. While in Beirut in 1876 he found a Sj-riac manuscript dating between 700 and 900 A.D. of the Gos- pels, Acts and .some of the Epistles, the Gospels constituting the Philoxenian version. In 1884 he published an account of this, with three fac- simile pages; The Antilegomena Epistles in photo- type, and Critical Bibliography of the Greek New Testament as Published in America. He died in Mount Vernon, N.Y., July 2, 1896.

HALL, James, clergyman, was born in Carli.sle, Pa.. Aug. 22. 1744. In 1752 he removed with his parents to Rowan county. N.C., where he attended school. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1774 and the following year was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Orange, N.J. He presided over the united congregations of Fourth Creek. Concord and Bethany. N.C., 1778-90. and over the Church at Bethany alone, 1790-1800. During the war of the Revolution he raised a company of cavalry and led it into South Carolina, acting both as colonel and as cliaplain. In 1800 he was delegated by the Presbvterian

general assemblj' to plant a mission at Natchez, which was the first Protestant mission in the Soutiiern Mississippi valley. He represented the presbytery of Orange in the general assembly of the church for several years, and in 1803 presided over the general assembly. He maintained at his home an '" academy of sciences " in which he was the only teacher. The honorary degree of S.T.D. was conferred upon him by the College of New Jersey in 1803 and by the University of North Carolina in 1810. He is the author of: Xarrative of a Most Extraordinary Work of Jielifjiou i>i North Carolina (1802); and a lieport of a Missionary Tovr throu(ih the Mis.>-issippi and the Southiresteru Country. He died in Bethany, N.C., July 25, 1826.

HALL, James, author, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa., Aug. 19, F('93; son of John and Sarah (Ewing) Hall. His father was a native of Maryland, secretary of the land-office and U.S. marshal for t'^e district of Pennsjlvania; his mother was a celebi-ated author and editor; and his maternal grandfather, the Rev. John Ewing, was provost of the Universitj^ of Penns3-lvania. He was educated for the law, but in 1812 vohm- teered in the war with Great Britain as a member of the AVashington Guards. He commanded a detachment at Chippewa in 1814; fought at Lundy's Lane and at the siege of Fort Erie and received official recognition for liis services. He was promoted lieutenant in the 2d U.S. artillery, and in 1815 was with Decatur's expedition to Algiers, on board the Enterprise, Lieut. Lawrence Kearny. He resigned from the U.S. army in 1818; was admitted to the bar, and practised in Shasvneetown, 111., 1820-27; was editor of the HUnois Gazette; public prosecutor, and judge of the circuit court. He removed to Vandalia in 1827; edited the Illinois Intelligencer and the III i- 7iois Monthly Maijazine. and was treasurer of the state. In 1833 he removeil to Cincinnati. Ohio, was cashier of the Commercial bank, 1836-53, and its president, 1853-68. He continued his magazine in Cincinnati as the Western Monthly Mat/azine, contributed largely to periodical litera- ture, and published: Letters from the West (1829); Lerjends of the West (1832); The Soldier's Bride (1832); The Harpers Head (1833); Tales of the Border (1835); Sketches of the West (1835); Life of (ren. William Henry Harrison (1836); Statistics of the West (1836; new ed., 1839); Hi.'<to7-y and Bi- ography of the Indians of North America (3 vols., 1838-44); The Wilderness and the War-Bath (1845); and Romance of We.'^tern History (1847). His works were published in a uniform edition (4 vols., 1853- 50). He died near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 5, 1868.

HALL, James, paleontologist, was born at Tlingham. Mass.. Sept. 12, 1811; son of James and Susanna (Dourdain) Hall. His parents were na- tives of Lancashire, England. His father, a