The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-19
DIR. c. v. HALL DEAD
MINNESOTA PROFESSOR OF GE.
OLOGY SUCcUMBS TO ILL
NESS OF TWO YEARS.
WIDELY KNOWN AS BIOLOGIST
ments at State Institution in
1s7s-Recognfzed Authority
In Mineralogy.

Minneapolis-Dr Christopher w.
Hall, professor of geology at the state
university, and for more than
thirty years connected with that insti-
tuition, died at his home. He had been
a sufferer with anemia for two years
having contracted the disease while at
tending a convention of the Inter-
national Geological association in San
tiago, Chile. He has been confined to
his bed for the last month.
Funeral services will be held at 1
p. m. Saturday at the First Congrega-
tional church, Rev. Clement G. Clark,
pastor, officiating. Cataract lodge No.
2, A. F. "a. NJ, of which he was a
past master, will then convey the
body to Hastings, and have charge of
the burial there beside the graves OF
his wife, father and mother.
Studied Abroad.
Born at Wardsboro, Vermont, Feb.
2S, 1S45, Christopher w. Hall received
his early education in the public
schools and entered Middlebury col
lege, Mass, where he graduated with
honors in 1871. He took his Masters
degree at his alma mater two years
following. He taught at the Glenn
Falls academy in New York from 1871
2, was an instructor at the Mankato,
Mimi, high school for the year after,
and was superintendent of schools at
Owatonna from 1875. In 1875 he
went to Germany where he attended
the university of Leipsic, receiving his
doctors degree from the institution in
1877. The next year he came to the
University of Minnesota as instructor
in natural sciences. He was made a
professor almost Immediately upon his
arrival, the specialties given to his
care being biology, geology and miner
alogy, or all the natural sciences save
chemistry and physics. To him was
given the development of that branch
of work in the university with quarters
in old Main hall.
Professor Hall continued as sole in
structor in all the branches given him
until 1884, when Professor Henry F.
Nachtrieb, then a young instructor,
was given charge of the zoology de-
partment. In 1888 he was made assist
ant curator of the general museum, a
position which he held for many years.
The general museum comprised the
collections of the geological and natur-
al history survey of the state augu-
mented by purchase and donation and
at the time contained some $4,000
specimens.
In 1897 he was given charge of the
geology department and due to the
work he was carrying retired from the
deanship, Frederick Jones being later
chosen for that position. He con-
tinued in charge of the geology depart
ment to his death, though he had asked
a year ago of the board of regents
that he be retired at the end of the
school year that he might devote his
time to writing and research work
The request was granted
Professor Hall was an accepted au-
thority here and abroad on mineralogy,
Photography and geology, and had writ
ten several books on his subjects. He
has written one book entitled, 1.-The
Geography of Minnesota" and also
wrote bulletin for the United States
Geological survey on "The Water Re-
sources of Southern Minnesota" He
served as an assistant on the Mime
sofa Geological survey, and was one of
the five original members of the Unit
ed States Geological survey. He was
a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, a fell
low of the Geological Society of Amer
lea, a member of the Association of
Geographers, former president and Sec
rotary of the Minnesota Academy of
Natural Sciences, and president of the
Minnesota Geological society.