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Samuel Hallock

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Samuel Hallock

Birth
Death
5 Oct 1917 (aged 80)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Samuel Hallock, a 30 year old widower, was sent to Syria in 1867 as the US Consul. He recently had received a patent for improving electrotype and had a contract with the American Bible Society to establish a printing press in the area. He met Sara Tabet in Syria and they married on 18 October 1870.

The Hallocks had the following children:
Mary Elizabeth (1871) married Frank E Greenewalt
Arthur Tabet (1872)
George Bliss (1874)
Ethel Fleet (1876) married William Dupont
Edgar Byington (1877)

After the birth of their 5th child, Sara became ill and was sent first to England and then to the United States for treatment.

After Sara's death, Robert sent the girls to live with relatives in Philadelphia and the boys to live with relatives in New England.
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Samuel Hallock is mentioned is Moris's book Freemasonry in the holy land page 75: "My headquarters at Beyrout were in the hospitable mansion of Brother Samuel Hallock, a member of Lodge No. 9, Philadelphia, Pa, and as thorough and genuine a Mason as ever old Number Nine turned out from its busy Atelier. He accommodates me with a room, ... Brother Hallock is the electrotypist of the printing-house connected with the American Protestant Mission, and a contributor to the New York Journal of Commerce.
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Samuel Hallock, a 30 year old widower, was sent to Syria in 1867 as the US Consul. He recently had received a patent for improving electrotype and had a contract with the American Bible Society to establish a printing press in the area. He met Sara Tabet in Syria and they married on 18 October 1870.

The Hallocks had the following children:
Mary Elizabeth (1871) married Frank E Greenewalt
Arthur Tabet (1872)
George Bliss (1874)
Ethel Fleet (1876) married William Dupont
Edgar Byington (1877)

After the birth of their 5th child, Sara became ill and was sent first to England and then to the United States for treatment.

After Sara's death, Robert sent the girls to live with relatives in Philadelphia and the boys to live with relatives in New England.
pkm

Samuel Hallock is mentioned is Moris's book Freemasonry in the holy land page 75: "My headquarters at Beyrout were in the hospitable mansion of Brother Samuel Hallock, a member of Lodge No. 9, Philadelphia, Pa, and as thorough and genuine a Mason as ever old Number Nine turned out from its busy Atelier. He accommodates me with a room, ... Brother Hallock is the electrotypist of the printing-house connected with the American Protestant Mission, and a contributor to the New York Journal of Commerce.
Contributor: (47403992)

Inscription

Samuel Hallock/Son of Benjamin Homan/and Elizabeth Fleet Hallock/March 3 1837-October 5 1917//
"Death Loves a Shining Star'/Sara Tabet/wife of Samuel Hallock/November 7 1855-July 27 1883/"Blessed are the Dead Who Die in the Lord"



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