Person:Baynard Hall (2)

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  1. Rev. Baynard Rush Hall1793 - 1863
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Name Rev. Baynard Rush Hall
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 1793 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence[1] 1843 Newburgh (town), Orange, New York, United States
Death[1][2] 23 Jan 1863 Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hall Family of Tacony, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania by Pleasants, J. Hall, in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
    22:145-158, No 3 (Jan 1914).

    ... Baynard Rush Hall said to have been born in 1798 and to have died in 1863. He is said to have been a Presbyterian clergyman in Brooklyn at one time. He is known to have kept a school called a Classical and Mathematical Institute at Rose Hill, Newburgh, N. Y., May 12, 1849.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Professors and Instructors, in Wylie, Theophilus A. Indiana University: its history from 1820, when founded, to 1890 : with biographical sketches of its presidents, professors and graduates : and a list of its students from 1820 to 1887. (Indianapolis, Indiana: William B. Burford, 1890)
    103.

    BAYNARD RUSH HALL
    Was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1793 and graduated at Union College, N. Y. Moved to Indiana, then in the far west, about 1824; was ordained minister of the gospel in 1825; was the first Principal of the Indiana Seminary in 1824, and when the seminary received the college charter in 1828, Mr. Hall was elected Professor of Ancient Languages. This position he resigned in 1831. From Bloomington he removed to Bedford, Pa., where he opened a school, and became the stated supply of the church in that place. He continued there till 1838, when he removed to Bordentown, N. J., from Bordentown he removed to Trenton, from thence to Poughkee})sie, X. Y., and from thence to Newburgh, N. Y., in all of which places he taught school and preached the gospel. Finally he was chosen Principal of Park Institute, Brooklyn, and pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 23, 1863.