Henry Hall was born in Auburn on 8 December 1845, a son of Abigail Farnam Hagaman and Benjamin Franklin Hall, a mayor of Auburn. He was an alumnus of the Auburn Academy, and pursued a career in journalism. He was the city editor of the Auburn News and the Auburn Advertiser, became editor of the Norwich (Connecticut) Daily Bulletin (1873-75), and the New York Tribune (1875-81), becoming the business superintendent of the latter publication (1882-1901). In 1881-82, he conducted a survey of the nation's shipbuilding industry for the United States Census Bureau. He was the author of How Money Is Made in Security Investments and History of Auburn (1869). He resided in Bronxville with his wife, Sara Virginia Houghton, daughter of L. Warren Houghton of Bath, Maine. Hall died on 6 February 1920.
Did you know that a CD-ROM version of Henry Hall's History of Auburn (first published in 1869) may be purchased from O'Hearn's Histories?
