The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-28
DEATH OF JOHN NJ. HALL
WELL-ENOWN JURISF AND
RAILWAY PRESIDENT.

an NdAuS BheApeeAcuAS ~ sAh E1aEAS
Hour Yesterday SIornIng-Had Been
n Sufferer for Two Years with
Chronic TroubIe-A Brilliant Career
Judge John Manning Hall, formerly
president of the New York, New Haven
C Hartford railroad, died suddenly
yesterday morning. at his residence, %
Hillhouse Avenue. He was taken ill
about / o'clock and DIR. Frank H.
Whittemore, who has been his regular
attending physician for 20 years, was
summoned. His condition had been so
critical that when DIR. Whittemore ar
rived about o'clock, Judge Hall lived
only five minutes. DIR. Whittemore said
yesterday:
Judge Hall died directly of oedema
Of the lungs, the most frequent cause
OF death of patients who are suffering
from chronic heart, arterial and kid
ney troubles.
This oedema was produced by a
chronic disease of the heart. kidneys
and arteries, which he had suffered
from for many years. His death was
painless"
1t was because of the inroads of
the complaint which caused his death
that Judge Hall was obliged to retire
from the presidency of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad sys-
tenn in September, 1908. He had
broken down in health the previous
summer and had become much worse
after he had gone to his summer home
In Maine. He came here to the fall
meeting of the board of directors with
an appearance indicating the rayages
of the disease with which he had be-
come afflicted. Subsequently he went
to southern California. where he re-
manned till last summer. He returned
to his home in this city and later went
to his summer home in Maine, return
ing here in the fall. He has remained
here this winter with no present indi-
cation of the approaching end. His last
appearance in the business world was
two weeks ago, when he attended the
regular directors meeting in New
York city, when the two new directors,
A. J. Cassatt and p. r. Todd, Joined
the body IT. a5
Thursday night he was around the
house in apparently as good health as
he had been in the past few months. 1t
is known that the afterial complication
of his disease has caused frequent at
tacks of angina pectoris in the past
three or four years. Yesterdays attack
marked the final stage of the COM
plant. z.#@
To Judge Halls beloved family the
force Of the blow came with sudden
ness in the extreme. His daughters,
Miss Florence M. and Miss Helen B.
Hall are, with Mrs Hall. at home, and
were with him when the end came.
His son, John Loomer Hall, a Yale
graduate of the class of '94, is prae-
Using law in Boston and was hastily
summoned. That the judges complaint
must terminate fatally ending prefna-
turely his career of long and enlinently
I useful public and commercial service
has been known to his close friends for
n some time. hut there was no reason to
apprehend that the end was near.
Judge Hall was born in WilIimantic,
Conn, October 16, 1S41. He was the
son of Horace and Elizabeth J. MAN
ning) Hall. Horace Hall, father of
Judge Hall, was superintendent of the
Windham Cotton Manufacturing COM
parly for many years, representative of
his town In the legislature, a Justice
of the peace and selectman for 10 years.
Judge Halls mother was the daughter
Of John Manning Of Albany, N. Y, and
was defendant in direct line from
4 John Alden and Priscilla Young Hall
received his early education in the pub
il schools of Willimantic, and at the
Pine Grove seminary in South Wind
ham.