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yer. He was a representative in the 30th, 31st and 3'3d congresses, 1847-53 ; lieutenant-governor of Missouri, 1861-64, and succeeded as governor on the death of Gov. Hamilton R. Gamble, Jan. 31, 1864, serving, 1864-65. He was a curator of the University of Missouri, 1860-63. He died in St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 3, 1882.

HALL, William, governor of Tennessee, was born in Virginia in 1774. He emigrated to Ten- nessee, served in the war against the Creek In- dians, and reachei the rank of brigadier general in 1812, when he commanded tlie Tennessee riile- men under General Jackson. He was a represent- ative in the state legislature and president of the state senate in 1829, when Governor Houston dis- appeared from the state having left his resigna- tion as governor. Hall thus became governor of Tennessee, but in the following election he did not oppose William Carroll, who had been gov- ernor previous to the election of Houston. He was elected a representative in the 22d congress, 1831-33, and after the expiration of his term, he retired to his home in Green Garden, Sumner county, Tenn., where he died in October, 1856.

HALL, William Augustus, representative, was born in Portland, Maine, in November, 1816; son of John and Stativa (Preble) Hall. He was a brother of Willard Preble Hall, and was taken to Harper's Ferry, Va., by his father before 1820. He was educated at Yale in the class of 1837, but did not graduate. He removed to Ran- dolph county. Mo., in 1840, with his father's family ; studied law and practised in Huntsville, 1841, and subsequently in J'ayette, Howard county. He was a presidential elector in 1844; judge of the circuit court, 1847-61 ; and a repre- sentative in the 37th and 38th congresses, 1861- 65, having been elected in place of J. B. Clark, expelled. He declined the appointment as U.S. senator in 1861 ; was a member of the Missouri convention in 1861, where he opposed the adop- tion of the Drake constitution ; was a curator of the Missouri state university 1853-54. and was a delegate to the Philadelphia National Union con- vention of 1866. He was married to Octavia Sebree. He died at Huntsville, Mo., Dec 14, 1889.

HALL, William Shafer, scientist, was born at Village Green, Chester, Pa., June 27, 1861. He was graduated at Lafayette college C.E., M.E., and M.S. in 1884, his graduating thesis being: "The wrought-iron girder bridge on the Central railroad at Phillipsburg, N.J." He was also honorary scientific orator, his subject being: "Free Thinking and False Thinking." He was tutor in English and graphics at Lafayette, 1884- 88, instructor in civil engineering, 1888-90, and became adjunct professor of mining engineering and graphics as successor to Prof. J. M. Silli- man, M.E., in June, 1890.

HALL, William Whitty, phj'sician, was born in Paris, Ky., Oct. 15, 1810; son of Stephen and Mary (Wooley) Hall. He was graduated at the Centre college of Kentucky in 1830, after which he studied in the medical department of Transyl- vania imiversity, and subsequently practised in New Orleans, Cincinnati and New York city. In the last named city, in 1854, he established HaU's Journal of Health, which he conducted till his death. He was married to Hannah Matlock of Cincinnati, Ohio. Besides the editorial work on his journal he published works on hygiene and kindred subjects, including: Soldier's Health; Health Tracts ; Family Physician; Treatise on Chol- era (1852) ; Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases (1852) ; Consumption (1857); Health and Disease (1860); Coughs and Colds (1870) ; Guide-Board to Health (1870); and Fun Better than Physic (1871). He died in New York city. May 10, 1876.

HALLAM, Lewis, actor, was born in England in 1738 ; son of Lewis and a nephew of William Hallam, the managers, and of Admiral Hallam of the British navy. His father was an actor in London at the Goodman's Fields theatre which was under the management of his uncle Wil- liam. In 1750 this theatre, which was run in opposition to Garrick's Drury Lane theatre, failed, and his father took charge of a company of players sent out to America by his uncle. They arrived at Yorktown.Va., and opened at Williams- burg, in "The Merchant of Venice," Lewis, Jr., taking a minor j^art, he having been educated at the grammar school in Cambridge, England, and trained for the profession of his family under the patronage of his uncle the admiral. They performed at Annapolis, Philadelphia, and in New York city in 1754, and were joined there in June of that year by William Hallam, who did not, however, act. He disposed of his inter- est in the company to his brother, and returned to England in 1755 where he died about 1758. The players went from New York to the British West Indies, where Lewis Hallam, Sr. died in 1756. .Soon after his father's death his mother was married to an actor by the name of David 'f- !^^^ Douglas who i' ^^5i had succeeded ' ^ - V", to the manage- ment of the company. Lewis remained with the company, meeting the yellow fever, the Revolution, and the c'isapproval of all New England. In New- port, R.I., they were onlj^ allowed to recite so- called "Moral Dialogues," one of which was "Othello, " in which Lewis took the part of Cassio.

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