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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