Kanawha County, West Virginia - Biography of Edwin HALL ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** The records for this work have been submitted by Valerie F. Crook, E-mail address: , January, 1999. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Biographical record of the class of 1850, Yale college Yale University, Class of 1850, 1877, published by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printer, New Haven, page 36 EDWIN HALL (Norwalk, Conn.), son of Rev. Edwin Hall, D.D. (Middlebury Coll. 1826), was born Aug. 1, 1829, in Middlebury, Vt. He taught at North Granville, N. Y., and Norwalk, Conn., till Sept. 1851, when he entered the East Windsor Theological Seminary and completed the full three years course. In the fall of 1854 he commenced preaching for the South Congregational Church of New Hartford, Conn., and was ordained their pastor. Dec. 13, 1854, where he remained till April 13, 1869. He was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Youngstown, Niagara Co., N. Y., July 14 1869. In August, 1873, he went to South Canaan, Conn., where he preached for one year. In Oct. 1874, he removed to Rosendale, Fond du Lac County, Wis., where he has been until the present winter (1877), acting pastor of the Congregational Church. He has removed to Charleston, West Virginia, and he became acting pastor of the Kanawha Presbyterian Church in that place on the 25th of February, 1877. He was married, Oct. 13, 1869, to Miss Henrietta Watson, of New Hartford, Conn.