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- From Halls of New England, pp. 249-250
Charles Hall was a close student; he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Badger, of Westminster, Vy., in 1809; graduated at the medical department of Dartmouth College, 1811/ Dr. Hall spent much of his time while a student in the office of his cousin Dr. Nathan Smith, professor of surgery at the time in Dartmouth College.
He commenced the practice of medicine at Swanton Fall, Vt., in 1812; removed to St. Albans in 1820; and to Burlington in 1842. He was very enthusiastic in the pursuit of his professional labors; had a peculiar aptitude in devising means to meet emergencies. As a surgeon he was unusually successful. Dr. Hall wrote a good deal on medical and other topics, but through diffidence only a few of his articles were published.; among such might be mentioned his essay on "Epidemic Erysipelas," and a long and able article on "Fevers of the Champlain Valley," from the former of these works published about the year 1843, and critically reviewed by the American Journal of the medical sciences, our standard authors upon the subject of erisiplas have liberally quoted both in this country and Great Britain, evincing their appreciation of his skill as an observer as well as his truthfulness as a theoretical writer.
Such am honorable mention of his "Word Spoken in Season" was not surmised in the slightest degree by Dr. Hall while living; for such was his extreme diffidence in appearing before the public as a medical writer, that it was with great difficulty he could be prevailed upon to publish the work from which these quotations were made, and which has done such honor to his memory as a medical observer.
He was a member of the Franklin Co and State Medical Societies of Vermont, the former which he joined in 1813; he was also an honored member of masonic fraternity.
The doctor was considered a healthy man and strictly temperate in his habits. During his residence in St. Albans and Burlington, he weilded the pen unflinchingly in the cause of temperance. He also delivered many lectures in the cause of temperance, some of which were published in the local papers of the two places.
Dr. Hall was a dignified though very genial man, erect in figure and very muscular, full six feet in height, of florid complexion, and possessing an energy in the pursuit of his professional duties seldom met with.
At the time of his death he was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. The commencement of Dr. Hall's last sickness was Nov. 25, 1847, and he died Dec. 3, 1847 at burlington and was buried at St. Albans.
In 1826, the late Prof. Dr. Edwin Hall, of Ashburn, while a member of Middlebury College taught an academy at St. Albans and boarded with Dr. Charles Hall but were both ignorant of any family connection between them.
Children were, born at St. Albans except the first:
1. Charles Henry, b. Swanton, Vt., July 19, 1815; d. 1816.
2. Harriet Brayton, b. Aug. 2, 1817; m. Dr. Newton H. Ballou, of St. lbans, and d. Dec. 3, 1840, withut children; Dr. Ballou removed in 1857 to Mechanicsville, N. Y., where he now resides.
3. Charles Henry, b. May 26, 1820 (Family 183).
and by second wife:
4. George Mortimer, b. Feb. 4, 1825 (Family 184).
5. Frances Elizabeth, b. July 27, 1826; m. 1847, Wm. H. Cottrill, of Montpelier, Vy.; removed to Milwaukee, Wis., where he kept the Plankton House, said to have been one of the best managed houses in the west; he is now the proprietor of the Waverly House at Appleton, Wis.; had one child Julia Frances, b. 1850, . Siney Hankhurst, of Milwaukee.
6. Horace Prescott, b. Sept. 4, 1829 (Family 185).
7. Julia Maria Hubbard, b. Nov. 200, 1831; m. Horace P. Janes; they removed in 1850 to San Francisco, where she diedin 1853; had one child Francis Hall, b. July 6, 1853, d. Sept. 22; Mr. Janes was a thoroughly educated lawyer; m. 2d, and had 3 sons, and d. in 1859.
8. Eliza Jane, b. May 30, 1835; m. Hector P. Linn, of Lynn, Mass.; she d. at St. Alnans, April 8, 1854,, having no children.
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1785 - 1847 (62 years)
