Sherman Rogers Hall, Ph.B. 1895.
Born March 14, 1874, in Buffalo, N Y
Died March 28, 1928, at Long Beach, CA
Father, Edward Julius Hall, a manufacturer of fire brick; son of Alfred and Sarah (Buckingham) Hall; great-great grandson of Theophilus Hall (B.A. 1727); descendant of Samuel Hall (1680); descended also from the Rev. Thomas Buckingham, a Fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1701 to 1709, in whose home at Saybrook, Conn., the first Commencement was held on September 16, 1702; his son, Stephen Buckingham, graduated at Harvard in 1693 and received the honorary degree of M A at Yale in 1702.
Mother, Mary (Hoey) Hall; daughter of John and Agnes (Bozeman) Hoey; descendant of John Hoey, who came to this country from Cavan, Ulster, Ireland, about 1802 and settled at Fiatbush, Long Island.
Yale relatives include: Avery Hall (B.A. 1759) (great-great- great-uncle); Edward J. Hall, '73 S., and William C. Hall, '75 S. (brothers); and Samuel Colgate, '91 (brother-inlaw); George P. Putnam, J r , '96 S, James O. Putnam, '03, William C. Hall, '04, Edward H. Putnam, '04 S., Edward B. Hall, '06 S., Gilbert Colgate, Jr., '22, and Robert B. Colgate, '24 (nephews); and Samuel Hall (B.A. 1716), Elihu Hall (B.A. 1731), Benjamin and Samuel Hall (both B A. 1754), and Ehsha Hall (B.A. 1764) (cousins).
Phillips-Andover. Electrical engineering course; member Tale Daily News board two years; a class deacon; member Cap and Gown Committee and Delta Psi. Connected with American Telephone & Telegraph Company 1895-98, at first as an inspector of line construction in the West and later as electrician in the New York office, in 1898 went to Porto Rico with Troop A, 1st Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry; located in Buffalo 1899-1904 as Buffalo manager and assistant to the general manager of Bell Telephone Company, general manager, vice-president, and a director of Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company at Kansas City, Mo., 1904-1911; in 1911 entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, C. Hunt Lewis, under firm name of Hall & Lewis, to deal in investment bonds in Portland, Ore.; in 1922 sold his western interests and during the next year engaged in the bond business with Parker & Company of New York City; engaged in farming at Fairfield, Conn., 1926-28; during the World War served as state chairman of the Four-Minute Men; member Waverley Polo Team of Portland, which won Northwestern Polo Championship in 1913; president of Oregon Yale Alumni Association 1914-16; attended the Episcopal Church.
Married October 25, 1900, in Portland, Clementine, daughter of Cicero Hunt and Clementine (Freeman) Lewis.
Children: Sherman Rogers, Jr , '24 S , and Francis Lewis, > s.
Death due to angina pectoris. Buried in Riverview Cemetery, Portland.
Survived by wife, two sons, and three sisters, Mrs. Henry B. Washburn, of Cambridge, Mass., Mrs. Sherwood Larned, of Saugerties, N Y., and Miss Grace Hall, of New York City.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
(Contributed by FAG member Cheryl Cartwright #47690711)
Born March 14, 1874, in Buffalo, N Y
Died March 28, 1928, at Long Beach, CA
Father, Edward Julius Hall, a manufacturer of fire brick; son of Alfred and Sarah (Buckingham) Hall; great-great grandson of Theophilus Hall (B.A. 1727); descendant of Samuel Hall (1680); descended also from the Rev. Thomas Buckingham, a Fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1701 to 1709, in whose home at Saybrook, Conn., the first Commencement was held on September 16, 1702; his son, Stephen Buckingham, graduated at Harvard in 1693 and received the honorary degree of M A at Yale in 1702.
Mother, Mary (Hoey) Hall; daughter of John and Agnes (Bozeman) Hoey; descendant of John Hoey, who came to this country from Cavan, Ulster, Ireland, about 1802 and settled at Fiatbush, Long Island.
Yale relatives include: Avery Hall (B.A. 1759) (great-great- great-uncle); Edward J. Hall, '73 S., and William C. Hall, '75 S. (brothers); and Samuel Colgate, '91 (brother-inlaw); George P. Putnam, J r , '96 S, James O. Putnam, '03, William C. Hall, '04, Edward H. Putnam, '04 S., Edward B. Hall, '06 S., Gilbert Colgate, Jr., '22, and Robert B. Colgate, '24 (nephews); and Samuel Hall (B.A. 1716), Elihu Hall (B.A. 1731), Benjamin and Samuel Hall (both B A. 1754), and Ehsha Hall (B.A. 1764) (cousins).
Phillips-Andover. Electrical engineering course; member Tale Daily News board two years; a class deacon; member Cap and Gown Committee and Delta Psi. Connected with American Telephone & Telegraph Company 1895-98, at first as an inspector of line construction in the West and later as electrician in the New York office, in 1898 went to Porto Rico with Troop A, 1st Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry; located in Buffalo 1899-1904 as Buffalo manager and assistant to the general manager of Bell Telephone Company, general manager, vice-president, and a director of Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company at Kansas City, Mo., 1904-1911; in 1911 entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, C. Hunt Lewis, under firm name of Hall & Lewis, to deal in investment bonds in Portland, Ore.; in 1922 sold his western interests and during the next year engaged in the bond business with Parker & Company of New York City; engaged in farming at Fairfield, Conn., 1926-28; during the World War served as state chairman of the Four-Minute Men; member Waverley Polo Team of Portland, which won Northwestern Polo Championship in 1913; president of Oregon Yale Alumni Association 1914-16; attended the Episcopal Church.
Married October 25, 1900, in Portland, Clementine, daughter of Cicero Hunt and Clementine (Freeman) Lewis.
Children: Sherman Rogers, Jr , '24 S , and Francis Lewis, > s.
Death due to angina pectoris. Buried in Riverview Cemetery, Portland.
Survived by wife, two sons, and three sisters, Mrs. Henry B. Washburn, of Cambridge, Mass., Mrs. Sherwood Larned, of Saugerties, N Y., and Miss Grace Hall, of New York City.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
(Contributed by FAG member Cheryl Cartwright #47690711)
Sherman Rogers Hall, Ph.B. 1895.
Born March 14, 1874, in Buffalo, N Y
Died March 28, 1928, at Long Beach, CA
Father, Edward Julius Hall, a manufacturer of fire brick; son of Alfred and Sarah (Buckingham) Hall; great-great grandson of Theophilus Hall (B.A. 1727); descendant of Samuel Hall (1680); descended also from the Rev. Thomas Buckingham, a Fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1701 to 1709, in whose home at Saybrook, Conn., the first Commencement was held on September 16, 1702; his son, Stephen Buckingham, graduated at Harvard in 1693 and received the honorary degree of M A at Yale in 1702.
Mother, Mary (Hoey) Hall; daughter of John and Agnes (Bozeman) Hoey; descendant of John Hoey, who came to this country from Cavan, Ulster, Ireland, about 1802 and settled at Fiatbush, Long Island.
Yale relatives include: Avery Hall (B.A. 1759) (great-great- great-uncle); Edward J. Hall, '73 S., and William C. Hall, '75 S. (brothers); and Samuel Colgate, '91 (brother-inlaw); George P. Putnam, J r , '96 S, James O. Putnam, '03, William C. Hall, '04, Edward H. Putnam, '04 S., Edward B. Hall, '06 S., Gilbert Colgate, Jr., '22, and Robert B. Colgate, '24 (nephews); and Samuel Hall (B.A. 1716), Elihu Hall (B.A. 1731), Benjamin and Samuel Hall (both B A. 1754), and Ehsha Hall (B.A. 1764) (cousins).
Phillips-Andover. Electrical engineering course; member Tale Daily News board two years; a class deacon; member Cap and Gown Committee and Delta Psi. Connected with American Telephone & Telegraph Company 1895-98, at first as an inspector of line construction in the West and later as electrician in the New York office, in 1898 went to Porto Rico with Troop A, 1st Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry; located in Buffalo 1899-1904 as Buffalo manager and assistant to the general manager of Bell Telephone Company, general manager, vice-president, and a director of Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company at Kansas City, Mo., 1904-1911; in 1911 entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, C. Hunt Lewis, under firm name of Hall & Lewis, to deal in investment bonds in Portland, Ore.; in 1922 sold his western interests and during the next year engaged in the bond business with Parker & Company of New York City; engaged in farming at Fairfield, Conn., 1926-28; during the World War served as state chairman of the Four-Minute Men; member Waverley Polo Team of Portland, which won Northwestern Polo Championship in 1913; president of Oregon Yale Alumni Association 1914-16; attended the Episcopal Church.
Married October 25, 1900, in Portland, Clementine, daughter of Cicero Hunt and Clementine (Freeman) Lewis.
Children: Sherman Rogers, Jr , '24 S , and Francis Lewis, > s.
Death due to angina pectoris. Buried in Riverview Cemetery, Portland.
Survived by wife, two sons, and three sisters, Mrs. Henry B. Washburn, of Cambridge, Mass., Mrs. Sherwood Larned, of Saugerties, N Y., and Miss Grace Hall, of New York City.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
(Contributed by FAG member Cheryl Cartwright #47690711)
Born March 14, 1874, in Buffalo, N Y
Died March 28, 1928, at Long Beach, CA
Father, Edward Julius Hall, a manufacturer of fire brick; son of Alfred and Sarah (Buckingham) Hall; great-great grandson of Theophilus Hall (B.A. 1727); descendant of Samuel Hall (1680); descended also from the Rev. Thomas Buckingham, a Fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1701 to 1709, in whose home at Saybrook, Conn., the first Commencement was held on September 16, 1702; his son, Stephen Buckingham, graduated at Harvard in 1693 and received the honorary degree of M A at Yale in 1702.
Mother, Mary (Hoey) Hall; daughter of John and Agnes (Bozeman) Hoey; descendant of John Hoey, who came to this country from Cavan, Ulster, Ireland, about 1802 and settled at Fiatbush, Long Island.
Yale relatives include: Avery Hall (B.A. 1759) (great-great- great-uncle); Edward J. Hall, '73 S., and William C. Hall, '75 S. (brothers); and Samuel Colgate, '91 (brother-inlaw); George P. Putnam, J r , '96 S, James O. Putnam, '03, William C. Hall, '04, Edward H. Putnam, '04 S., Edward B. Hall, '06 S., Gilbert Colgate, Jr., '22, and Robert B. Colgate, '24 (nephews); and Samuel Hall (B.A. 1716), Elihu Hall (B.A. 1731), Benjamin and Samuel Hall (both B A. 1754), and Ehsha Hall (B.A. 1764) (cousins).
Phillips-Andover. Electrical engineering course; member Tale Daily News board two years; a class deacon; member Cap and Gown Committee and Delta Psi. Connected with American Telephone & Telegraph Company 1895-98, at first as an inspector of line construction in the West and later as electrician in the New York office, in 1898 went to Porto Rico with Troop A, 1st Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry; located in Buffalo 1899-1904 as Buffalo manager and assistant to the general manager of Bell Telephone Company, general manager, vice-president, and a director of Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company at Kansas City, Mo., 1904-1911; in 1911 entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, C. Hunt Lewis, under firm name of Hall & Lewis, to deal in investment bonds in Portland, Ore.; in 1922 sold his western interests and during the next year engaged in the bond business with Parker & Company of New York City; engaged in farming at Fairfield, Conn., 1926-28; during the World War served as state chairman of the Four-Minute Men; member Waverley Polo Team of Portland, which won Northwestern Polo Championship in 1913; president of Oregon Yale Alumni Association 1914-16; attended the Episcopal Church.
Married October 25, 1900, in Portland, Clementine, daughter of Cicero Hunt and Clementine (Freeman) Lewis.
Children: Sherman Rogers, Jr , '24 S , and Francis Lewis, > s.
Death due to angina pectoris. Buried in Riverview Cemetery, Portland.
Survived by wife, two sons, and three sisters, Mrs. Henry B. Washburn, of Cambridge, Mass., Mrs. Sherwood Larned, of Saugerties, N Y., and Miss Grace Hall, of New York City.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1927-28.pdf
(Contributed by FAG member Cheryl Cartwright #47690711)
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