Category:Daniel Hall

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The Granite Monthly, 1900, Vol. 28: A New Hampshire Magazine, Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, pg 222 & 223 - Dover; print, H.H. Metcalf, New Hampshire . 1900

No citizen of Dover is better known throughout New England than Col. Daniel Hall, a native of Barrington, born February 28, 1832. Colonel Hall graduated at Dartmouth in the class of 1854. In the fall of that year he was appointed a clerk in the New York custom house, serving till March, 1858. Returning home he pursued the study of law, already commenced, in the office of the late Daniel M. Christie, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1860. Soon after the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion he was appointed clerk of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs at Washington, and in the following conflict was commissioned aide-de-camp and captain in the regular army, serving on the staff of General A. W. Whipple and General O. O. Howard.

In 1864, he was appointed provost marshal of the First New Hamp[shire district, and remained stationed at Portsmouth till the close of the war. He was appointed clerk of the court for Strafford county in 1866, and judge of the Dover police court in 1868, serving till 1874. He was president of the Republican state convention at Concord in 1873, chairman of the Republican state committee from 1873 till 1877, and chairman of the New Hampshire delegation in the Republican National convention at Cincinnati in 1876.

He gained his title of Colonel by service on the staff of Governor Walter Harriman. In 1876 he was appointed reporter of Supreme Court decisions, and in 1877 succeeded Governor Harriman as naval officer at the port of Boston, serving eight years.

In 1892-'93 he was department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of New Hampshire. He is trustee of the Strafford Savings bank, director of the Strafford National bank, trustee of Berwick academy, trustee of Dover public library, trustee of the "Wentworth Home for the Aged," and a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Colonel Hall is an accomplished scholar, a polished orator, a leader in the Grand Army of the Republic, and an active member of the board of managers of the New Hampshire Soldiers' Home at Tilton.

January 25, 1877, he married Sophia, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Hanson) Dodge of Rochester, by whom he has one son, Arthur Wellesley Hall.

Letters Home: Dover's many Civil War Soldiers kept in touch

by Thom Hindle

There also was Col. Daniel Hall, who held many appointments in Washington, D.C., was commissioned aide-de-camp in 1862 while serving under General Whipple, was involved in the attack on Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862, and served under Gen. Oliver Howard at Gettysburg, where he was wounded.

Hall became a prominent attorney in Dover and also a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Charles W. Sawyer Post No. 17. In 1912, it was Col. Hall who donated to the city of Dover the soldiers and sailors monument standing in front of the public library.