Surname Search: "Hall"

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Hall

Related surnames or alternate spellings: Holl

Notable ancestors include:

Charles Martin Hall - inventor, aluminum manufacturing
G. Stanley Hall - pyschologist
J. Hall - Titanic crew fireman and victim
James Hall Jr - paleontologist and geologist
Jim Hall - jazz guitarist
Joyce C. Hall - creator of Hallmark cards
Lloyd Augustus Hall - chemist, food preservation pioneer
Lyman Hall - signer of the Declaration of Independence
Marguerite Radclyffe Hall - poet and author

Photographs of Hall:

“Adelaide Hall, 1961” Library of Congress
“Alan Hall, 1939” Hennepin County Library
“Albert R. Hall, c. 1870” Minnesota Historical Society
“Alice Ida Hall, 1895” Denver Public Library
“Anna Hall family” Hardin-Simmons University Library
“Barbara Hall, 1945” Hennepin County Library
“Benton Jay Hall, 1873” Library of Congress
“Bill Hall”, Knox County Public Library
“Capt. Hall, 1901.” Library of Congress.
“Charlotte Hall, c. 1940” Minnesota Historical Society
“Darwin S. Hall and his wife with Native American Indian collection, 1914” Minnesota Historical Society
“Darwin Scott Hall, 1873” Library of Congress
“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Archer VanCleve Hall of Honolulu, Hawaii” Minnesota Historical Society
“Fannie Hall, 1889” Denver Public Library
“Fannie Hall, 1890” Denver Public Library
“Frank Albert Hall” Denver Public Library
“Hall Family, circa 1930” Fort Collins History Connection
“Hall Family: Dee, Ivan, Vera, Philip, Donna, and Thora Hall” Uintah County Library
“Hall” unknown female. (possibly Josephine Hall) Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts.
“Helen Hall of Minneapolis, daughter of Dr. William Asbury Hall, 1907” Minnesota Historical Society
“J.P. Hall, 1886” Denver Public Library
“James Hall and Margaret Hall, chestnut hunting, Oct 1894” Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection
“James William Hall, D.D.” Library of Congress
“John Hall, 1894” Library of Congress
“Josephine Hall, ca 1889” Library of Congress
“Judge E.T. Hall and Martha A. Hall” Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection
“Kate Hall, 1890” Denver Public Library
“Leander Hall, grandfather of Marion Snelling Hall, c. 1880” Minnesota Historical Society
“Lelia Hall, 1873” Library of Congress
“Lelia Hall, 1894” Library of Congress
“Liberty Hall, 1870” Minnesota Historical Society
“Lucy Hall, Will S. Hall, and Alma Hall, 1895” Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection
“LuVerne Elizabeth Hall, 1895” Denver Public Library
“Lynn and Eula Hall” Uintah County Library
“Mabel Hall, 1894” Library of Congress
“Mark M. and Mary May Hall” Uintah County Library
“Minnie Hall, 1894” Denver Public Library
“Miss Hall, circa 1901” Library of Congress
“Mr. and Mrs. Leander W. Hall, 1925” Minnesota Historical Society
“Mr. Joseph W. Hall and friend, Leadville, Colo. 1890” Denver Public Library
“Pauline Hall, 1889” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts
“Pauline Hall, ca 1881” Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts
“Theodore Seymour and Edwin Oscar Hall. Children of Elizabeth Archer VanCleve and William Wisner Hall, 1888” Minnesota Historical Society
“Uriel Sebree Hall, 1891” Library of Congress
“W. Bolton Hall, 1909” Media Historic Archives
“Walter H. Hall” Library of Congress
“Wendell Hall” Library of Congress
“Weston Birch “Bert” Hall, ca 1915”. Library of Congress
“William Hall and children, William Jr., Judy, and Robert” Online Archive of California
“William “Willy” Woodhull Hall, 1860” Library of Congress

Website clippings, news articles, blog posts (no paywalls)

Frick, Melanie. “Y-DNA and the Hall Family of the Colonial Carolinas” Homestead Genealogy
Smith, Ricky. “John and Martha Gladden Hall Family” (pdf link) rootsandrecall.com
“Chapter 40. Our Hall Family ancestors” 8 October 2015. Baker Family Tree
“Hall Ancestry” Bartlett NH History
“Hall family history etched in my DNA” 13 August 2016. Cumbo Family Website
“Hall Family” Collin County, Texas History
“Hall Family” Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections

Artifacts

“Hall Bible” biblerecords.com
“Levi Hall campaign card, 1923” Minnesota Historical Society

Correspondence and letters

“Correspondence from Radclyffe Hall to Evguenia Souline” Harry Ransom Center
“Letter from Robert Hall to John Muir, 1890 Nov 1” Online Archive of California
“Robert D. Hall correspondence and reports, 1911 - 1917”

Homes & historical markers

“Captain James Hall” marker in Virginia
“Charles M. Hall residence” Knoxville, Tennessee
“Frank Hall residence, circa 1900” Denver Public Library
“Hall family residence” California State University
“Hall House” Sonoma County Library
“James Hall, Elk Grove House” California
“Lynn Hall home” Uintah County Library
“The Hough-Hall Family” West Virginia

Oral histories and transcripts

“Claudia Hall Collection” (audio only) Library of Congress
“Haskell Hall Collection, 1949” Library of Congress
“Johnnie Hall Collection, 1963” Library of Congress
“Oral history interview with Modjeska Simkins, November 15, 1974.” (audio only) Documenting the American South
“Oral history interview with R.H. (Bob) Hall, 1965 Nov. 28” (audio only) Smithsonian
“Oral history interview: Alice Hall, 1974” (transcript only) Marshall University

Finding aids (may not have any online content)

“Hall family papers and sugar plantation records” UC San Diego

Books (Online & In Print)

Adams, Mary Lizzie Hall. “The Hall Family History” Statesville, North Carolina, 1949. (Full view on Internet Archive)
“Ancestry of a few of the descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Mass, with intermarriages” (Full view on Internet Archive)
Coe, Mrs. S. F. Hall “Memoranda relating to the ancestry and family of Sophia Fidelia Hall” Meriden, Conn., The Curtiss-Way Co., 1902. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hall, Charles S. “Hall ancestry. A series of sketches of the lineal ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley of Binghamton, N.Y.” 1896. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Hall, Helen L. “The Hall Genealogy” 1960. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hall, J. K. “The Rev. James Davidson Hall and his descendants, 1806 - 1946” Belmont, N.C., 1946. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hall, Marion Martin. “Hall Family” 1947. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hall, Rev. David Brainard. “The Halls of New England. Genealogical and biographical” Albany, NY, Joel Munsell’s Sons., 1883. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hall, Thomas John. “The Hall family of West River and kindred families” 1941. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Hartley, Elizabeth J. Hall. “Descendants of Moses Hall, John Doudna and Benjamin Hall” Denver, Colorado, 1958. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Meier, Gladys Hall. “History of the Hall Family and allied lines” Brownsville, Texas, 1959. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Morris, Oliver M. “The Hall Family Tree: a genealogy with history and biographies” Long Beach, CA; 1940 (Full view on Internet Archive)
Quint, Alonzo Hall. “Deacon John Hall of Dover, New Hampshire, and some of his descendants” Hall’s Book Shop, Boston, MA., 1920. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Roe, James Varley. “History of Job Pitcher Hall, his Hall ancestors, 1764-1600, his descendants, 1848-1958” (Full view on Internet Archive)
Sumner, Edith Bartlett. “Ancestry and descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin” 1954. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Toll, Estella. “Family record of Jehu Hall” Lawndale, California. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Warren, Robert Hall. “The Hall Family” Bristol., J.W. Arrowsmith, 1910. (Full view on HathiTrust)

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