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The Instructor'S Manual: Or, Lectures On School-Keeping
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Hall's Alphabet of Geology; Or, First Lessons in Geology and Mineralogy
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Samuel Read Hall was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He established a training-school for teachers in Concord, Vermont.
Background
Samuel Hall was born on October 27, 1795, in Croydon, New Hampshire, United States; he was a descendant of John Hall, who, coming from England to Massachusetts some time before 1652, settled in Medford about 1675. The youngest of the numerous family of Samuel Read and Elizabeth (Hall) Hall, he was christened Read Hall, but upon the death of his brother Samuel, he was given that name and the change was legalized by an act of the legislature. During his youth his health was delicate.
Education
The loss of his father’s property prevented his securing a college education, but Samuel had taken a course of classical study at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire.
Career
Hall began to teach school in 1814 in Rumford, Maine. He was early convinced that the entire system of education in the country was defective and that immediate and drastic reform was necessary. While principal of an academy at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, he had studied theology with Rev. William Eaton and in 1822 was licensed as a Congregational minister. In March of the following year he began his missionary labors at Concord, Vermont, where, by an understanding with his people, he established a training-school for teachers. It was incorporated in November 1823 as the Concord Academy. There had been in the early decades of the nineteenth century in America, under French and Prussian influence, considerable academic discussion of teacher-training, but Hall took the first practical step by the opening of his normal school.
In 1830 Hall went to the Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, as principal of the newly established teachers’ seminary. There he was regarded as omniscient and indefatigable. Poor health and dissatisfaction caused him to resign in April 1837, however, and shortly afterward he accepted the appointment as principal of the Holmes Plymouth Academy.
When the school was closed in 1840, owing to financial difficulties, Hall accepted the call to a church in Craftsbury, Vermont, and became principal of the Craftsbury Academy, to which he added a teachers’ department. He left the Academy in 1846 and twelve years later resigned his pastorate to accept the less onerous duties of the church at Brownington, Vermont. In 1867 he resigned because of old age and retired to his farm. He did not long remain inactive. From 1872 to 1875 he was pastor of the church at Granby, Vermont, and during these latter years he frequently lectured on geology and astronomy. He was an inveterate writer of textbooks and published works on geology, geography, arithmetic, grammar, and history.