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of Millard Fillmore, Aurora, N.Y., as a student at law. He was admitted to the bar in 1832 and be- came a law partner with Mr. Fillmore in Buffalo, N.Y. He was married Nov. 16, 1832, to Emily Payne. He was deputy clerk of Erie coimtj', 1831-32; clerk of the boar'i of supervisors, 1832- 3S; city attorney, 1 S33-34: : alderman, 1 337 ; master in chan- cerj', 1839-41 ; judge of the court of com- mon pleas, 1841-45; member of the state assembly, 1846-47; representative in tlie 50th congress, 1847- ^7' \ "^x 'S^ ' 1^: 3.nd declined re-

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appointed him post- ^ JXy^ ^^ master-general in his

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resigned the portfolio on being appointed U.S. judge of the district court for Northern New York, and held tiie office until his death which occurred in Buffalo, N.Y.. March 2, 1874.

HALL, Robert Bernard, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 28, 1812. He attended the Boston Latin school, studied theology at New Haven, and in 1834 was ordained to the Congre- gational ministry. He subsequently became an Episcopalian, and made his home in Plymouth, Mass. He was a member of the state senate in 1855, and a representative in the 34th and 35th congresses, 1855-59. He was one of the founders of the New England anti -slavery- societj- in Boston in 1832, and of the American anti-slavery society in Philadelphia in 1833. He received the degree of LL.D. from Iowa Central college in 1858. He died at Plymouth, Mass., April 15. 1868.

HALL, Robert William, chemist, was born in Armagli, Ireland, April 25, 1853; son of the Rca'. John and Emily (Bolton) Hall. He was gradu- ated from the College of New Jersey in 1873, and from the Columbia College school of mines in 1876. He was a manufacturing chemist and a chemical expert, 1876-88 ; acting assistant profes- sor of chemistry in the L^niversity of the city of New York, 1888-90; acting professor of anahi:ical chemistry there. 1890-91, and was advanced to the full professorship of analytical chemistry in 1891.

HALL, Samuel, printer, was born in Medford, Mass., Nov. 2, 1740; son of Jonathan and Anna (Fowle) Hall; grandson of Jonathan and Lydia (Cutter) Hall ; and great-grandson of John Hall, born in England. 1627, died in Medford in 1701. He learned the printer's trade at Portsmouth,

N.H., with his uncle, Daniel Fowle, the first printer in New Hampshire; was a partner with Ann, widow of James Franklin, at Newport, R.I., 1761-68; published the Essex Gazette, Salem, Mass., 1768-75; the Xew England Chronicle, Cam- bridge, Mass., 1775-76, and in Boston, 1776-81; the Salem Gazette, 1781-85: the Massachusetts Gazette, 1785-89. and was a bookseller in Boston, 1789-1805. He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 30,1807.

HALL, Samuel Read, educator, was born in Croydon, N.H, Oct. 27, 1795; son of Lieut. Stephen and Sarah (Taft) Hall. His mother was thrice married : first to John Brown, secondly to Samuel Read, and thirdly to Lieut. Stephen Hall. In 1814 he began teaching school at Rumford, Maine, and subsequently taught in an acad- emy at Fitchburg, Mass. He studied theology with the Rev. Walter Chapin of Woodstock, Vt., and his first settlement was in 1823 over the Con- gregational church. Concord, Vt., where he estab- lished a training school for teachers, tlie first of its character in the United States and the first school to use a blackboard. He remained at the head of this school till 1830. when he became principal of the department of English in Phillips Andover academy. He conducted a teachers' seminary at Plymouth, N.H., 1837-40. preached at Craftsbury and Brownington, Vt., 1840-64, and conducted a teachers' seminary at Craftsbury. Vt., in connection with the academy of the latter town. 1840-66. In 1829 he assisted in foimding the American institute of instruction. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Hezekiah Hall. The honorary- degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1839, and that of LL.D. by the University of Vermont in 1865. He is the author of: The ChikVs Assistant (1827) ; Lectures on School- Keeping (1829) ; Lectures to Female Teachers (1832) ; The Child's Instructor (1832) ; The Grammatical Assistant (1833); A School History of the United States (1833); The Arithmetical 3Ianual (1832); TJie Geography and History of Vermont (1864; rev. ed., 1874) ; and The Alphabet of Geology (1868). He died in Brownington Centre, Vt., Jime 24, 1877.

HALL, Uriel Sebree, representative, was born in Randolph county. Mo.. April 12, 1852; son of Judge William A. and Octavia (Sebree) Hall; gi-andson of John Hall, the inventor of Hall's carbine, and a nephew of Willard Preble Hall, governor of Missouri. His father was a repre- sentative in the 37th and 38th congresses. 1861- 65. Uriel was graduated from Mount Pleasant college. Huntsville. Mo., in 1872; taught school, 1872-75, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He practised law until 1885, when he abandoned it to devote his time to agriculture. He held several minor political offices, and was a Demo- cratic representative from the second district of Missouri in the 53d and 54th congresses, 1893-97.