History of Norwich, (Hampshire County) Massachusetts United States of America

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The Biography of Arethusa Hall

Arethusa Hall, author, was born in Norwich, Mass., Oct. 13, 1802; daughter of Aaron and Sarah (Richardson) Hall; granddaughter of Zacheus and Mary (Jenison) Hall and of Capt. John and Rebecca (Moore) Richardson; great granddaughter of Percival and Jane (Willis) Hall; and great2 granddaughter of John Hall, who came to Massachusetts from England about 1652 and finally settled in Medford, Mass. She fitted herself for teaching and in 1826 had charge of an academy at Greenland, N.H., and subsequently taught in Haverhill, Mass, where John Greenleaf Whittier was her pupil. She taught in the female academy, Brooklyn, N.Y. (afterward Packer institute), 1849-51, and was associate principal of the Brooklyn Heights seminary, 1851-60. She is the author of: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal (1846); A Manual of Morals (1849); The Literary Reader (1850); Life of the Rev. Sylvester Judd (1854) and Memorabilia of Sylvester Judd, Sr. (1882). She died in Northampton, Mass., May 24, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor