Background
Angeline was born to Theophilus Stickney and Electa Cook.
Angeline was born to Theophilus Stickney and Electa Cook.
She did not use her first name and so was known as Angeline Stickney Hall. She majored in science and mathematics, doing coursework in calculus and mathematical astronomy. Central College was a progressive school where students of modest means, including women and free African Americans, could earn a college degree.
lieutenant was here that she became passionate about the causes of women"s suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
At Central College, Asaph Hall took her courses in geometry and German, and she gave up her career to marry him at Elkhorn, Wisconsin on March 31, 1856. She is believed to have helped him with mathematical calculations early in his career.
She encouraged him to continue his search for satellites of Mars when he was ready to give up, and he successfully discovered Phobos and Deimos. The largest crater on Phobos, Stickney crater, is named after her.
Her third son, Angelo Hall, a Unitarian minister, wrote her biography.
Her oldest son, Asaph Hall, Junior., was born on October 6, 1859 and served as director of the Detroit Observatory from 1892 to 1905. Other sons were named Samuel (second son) and Percival (fourth son). Percival Hall (1872–1953) was the second president of Gallaudet University from 1910 to 1946 (he himself was not deaf).
She died at North Andover, Massachusetts at age 61.