Edwin Hall

Brief Life History of Edwin

When Edwin Hall was born on 7 April 1879, in Darwin, Clark, Illinois, United States, his father, Herschel Hall, was 27 and his mother, Victoria Theresa Hall, was 24. He married Etta May Reed on 10 March 1917, in Clay, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Prairie Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Prairie Creek, Prairie Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died on 12 October 1961, in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Prairie Creek, Prairie Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edwin Hall
1879–1961
Etta May Reed
1888–1985
Marriage: 10 March 1917
Aretha Lorine Hall
1919–1953
Irma Theresa Hall
1920–1983
Edwin Thomas Hall
1921–1996
Geneva Verdine Hall
1923–2003
Richard Dale Hall
1930–1994

Sources (15)

  • Ed Hall, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Edwin Hall, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Edwin Hall, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1885 · The First Skyscraper

The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.

Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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