John Arthur

Background

Hall was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1877.

Education

Hall attended preparatory school at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut. Hall attended the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and studied chemistry.

Career

He played college football for the Yale Bulldogs football team and was selected as a consensus honoree on the 1897 College Football All-America Team. He also served as the head coach of the Carlisle Indians football team in 1898. He received his bachelor"s degree in 1897, but remained at Yale for another year engaged in graduate studies.

While attending Yale, he played two years on the university hockey team and also played at the right end position on the 1897 Yale Bulldogs football team

He was a consensus first-team selection for the 1897 College Football All-America Team. During the all of 1898, he served as the head football coach at the Carlisle Indian School.

Hall was an assistant football coach at the United States Naval Academy in 1899 and 1900. In 1899, Hall began working as a chemist for the Carnegie Steel Company in Pittsburgh.

He remained with Carnegie until 1902 when he went to work for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.

In 1903, he was superintendent of the Alice Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama. He later moved to New Jersey where he worked as a chemical engineer for the Edison Portland Cement Company and, starting in 1913, for the Ransome Concrete Machinery Company. Hall was married in November 1915 to Anna Franklin in a ceremony at Bridgeport, Connecticut.

He was stationed on the Mexican border.

In 1918, Hall formed Hall Machine Company, general machinists, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In September 1919, Hall was severely injured while driving from his summer home in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, to his winter home in Sewaren, New Jersey.

His automobile was hit by a train at a crossing in Keansburg, New Jersey.

Achievements

• He served during 1916 in the Connecticut National Guard, Second Infantry, attaining the rank of battalion sergeant major.

Connections

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Carlisle Indians