Burial: 4 January 1911--Age: 70y--Cause of death: Tuberculosis
? Burial: June 1911--Age: 69y--
Civil War Private 23 Maine Infantry Co D
Married Sybil Norton on 26 July 1866 in Illinois. Children: Clyde H., born 15 Aug 1867, Nina M., born 12 March 1873, and Myra, born 14 Nov 1877. He was Principal of the West Aurora High School, c.1868-1875; Principal of Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, c.1878.
Contributor david chaney (#47729003) adds the following:
"Morgan County Historical Society
Today in Morgan County History -- Frank Haven Hall was born February 9, 1841 in Mechanic Falls, Maine. He served in the Civil War as a hospital steward. After the war he moved to Illinois and began a career of teaching and school administration. He became the Superintendent of the Jacksonville School for the Blind in 1890. He served in that post off and on, depending on who was in office in Springfield, until 1902. In 1892, with the assistance of local gunsmith Gustav Sieber, he developed the Hall Braille Writer. This device made the use of Braille so much more efficient and speedier that it revolutionized life for the blind. He did not patent the device because he did not feel he should profit from his position at the school. Helen Keller liked the machine so much that, when she met Hall at his booth at the Chicago World Fair in 1893, she hugged and kissed him. Hall died in 1911 in Aurora, Illinois."
? Burial: June 1911--Age: 69y--
Civil War Private 23 Maine Infantry Co D
Married Sybil Norton on 26 July 1866 in Illinois. Children: Clyde H., born 15 Aug 1867, Nina M., born 12 March 1873, and Myra, born 14 Nov 1877. He was Principal of the West Aurora High School, c.1868-1875; Principal of Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, c.1878.
Contributor david chaney (#47729003) adds the following:
"Morgan County Historical Society
Today in Morgan County History -- Frank Haven Hall was born February 9, 1841 in Mechanic Falls, Maine. He served in the Civil War as a hospital steward. After the war he moved to Illinois and began a career of teaching and school administration. He became the Superintendent of the Jacksonville School for the Blind in 1890. He served in that post off and on, depending on who was in office in Springfield, until 1902. In 1892, with the assistance of local gunsmith Gustav Sieber, he developed the Hall Braille Writer. This device made the use of Braille so much more efficient and speedier that it revolutionized life for the blind. He did not patent the device because he did not feel he should profit from his position at the school. Helen Keller liked the machine so much that, when she met Hall at his booth at the Chicago World Fair in 1893, she hugged and kissed him. Hall died in 1911 in Aurora, Illinois."
Burial: 4 January 1911--Age: 70y--Cause of death: Tuberculosis
? Burial: June 1911--Age: 69y--
Civil War Private 23 Maine Infantry Co D
Married Sybil Norton on 26 July 1866 in Illinois. Children: Clyde H., born 15 Aug 1867, Nina M., born 12 March 1873, and Myra, born 14 Nov 1877. He was Principal of the West Aurora High School, c.1868-1875; Principal of Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, c.1878.
Contributor david chaney (#47729003) adds the following:
"Morgan County Historical Society
Today in Morgan County History -- Frank Haven Hall was born February 9, 1841 in Mechanic Falls, Maine. He served in the Civil War as a hospital steward. After the war he moved to Illinois and began a career of teaching and school administration. He became the Superintendent of the Jacksonville School for the Blind in 1890. He served in that post off and on, depending on who was in office in Springfield, until 1902. In 1892, with the assistance of local gunsmith Gustav Sieber, he developed the Hall Braille Writer. This device made the use of Braille so much more efficient and speedier that it revolutionized life for the blind. He did not patent the device because he did not feel he should profit from his position at the school. Helen Keller liked the machine so much that, when she met Hall at his booth at the Chicago World Fair in 1893, she hugged and kissed him. Hall died in 1911 in Aurora, Illinois."
? Burial: June 1911--Age: 69y--
Civil War Private 23 Maine Infantry Co D
Married Sybil Norton on 26 July 1866 in Illinois. Children: Clyde H., born 15 Aug 1867, Nina M., born 12 March 1873, and Myra, born 14 Nov 1877. He was Principal of the West Aurora High School, c.1868-1875; Principal of Sugar Grove Normal and Industrial School, c.1878.
Contributor david chaney (#47729003) adds the following:
"Morgan County Historical Society
Today in Morgan County History -- Frank Haven Hall was born February 9, 1841 in Mechanic Falls, Maine. He served in the Civil War as a hospital steward. After the war he moved to Illinois and began a career of teaching and school administration. He became the Superintendent of the Jacksonville School for the Blind in 1890. He served in that post off and on, depending on who was in office in Springfield, until 1902. In 1892, with the assistance of local gunsmith Gustav Sieber, he developed the Hall Braille Writer. This device made the use of Braille so much more efficient and speedier that it revolutionized life for the blind. He did not patent the device because he did not feel he should profit from his position at the school. Helen Keller liked the machine so much that, when she met Hall at his booth at the Chicago World Fair in 1893, she hugged and kissed him. Hall died in 1911 in Aurora, Illinois."
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