Background
Hall, Florence Marion Howe was born on August 25, 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Doctor Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe.
Hall, Florence Marion Howe was born on August 25, 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Doctor Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe.
Sister of Henry Marion Howe, Laura Elizabeth Richards and Maud Howe Elliott. Educated private schools. Studied music with Otto Dresel, Boston.
Has been prominent in club movement. 1st chairman of correspondence for New Jersey of General Federation of Women's Clubs, later vice-president, director and department chairman education New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs (vice president 1911-1913). Honorary president New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (president, 1893-1900).
President Plainfield Alliance of Unitarian Women, 1893-1904.
Regent Continental Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, 1902-1904, 1905-1910 (elected honorary vice-regent 1914). Leader Woman Suffrage Party, 12th Assembly District, Manhattan, 1914-1916.
President Newport Company (Rhode Island) Women's Republican Club. Lecturer. Author: The Correct Thing, 1888, 1902.
Social Customs, 1911.
Boys, Girls and Manners, 1913. The A B Chamber of Correct Speech, 1916. Edited Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1913.
Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Good Form for All Occasions. Memories Grave and Gay, 1918.
Home: High Bridge, New Jersey.
Club. Lecturer.
Married David Prescott Hall, November 15, 1871 (died 1907).