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

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William Allen Hallock, editor, was born in Plainfield, Mass., June 2, 1794; son of the Rev. Moses Halleck, educator (born 1760, died 1887), a graduate of Yale, 1788; a soldier in the war of the American Revolution; pastor of the church at Plainfield, and conductor of a celebrated school where William Cullen Bryant and John Brown the abolitionist were pupils. His uncle, the Rev. Jeremiah Halleck (1758-1826) was pastor of the Congregational church at West Simsbury, Mass., 1785-1826, and received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1788. William Allen was graduated at Williams, A.B., 1819, A.M., 1822, and at Andover theological seminary in 1822. He was agent of the New England tract society, 1822-25, and corresponding secretary of the American tract society, 1825-70. He was responsible for every book, tract and paper published by the society, as every manuscript passed through his hands and was accepted by him before printed. He was editor of The American Messenger, 1830-70, and of The Child's Paper, 1845-70. He received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers in 1850. In 1868 he married as his second wife, Mrs. Mary Angeline Lathrop, author of That Sweet Story of Old (1856); Bethlehem and Her Children (1858); Life of the Apostle Paul (1860); Life of Solomon (1868); Fall of Jerusalem (1869); Life of Daniel (1870); and Beasts and Birds (1870). He wrote Life of Harlan Page (1835); Life of the Rev. Moses Hallock (1854); and Life of the Rev. Justin Edwards (1855); besides innumerable tracts. Mrs. H. C. Knight prepared Memorial of the Rev. William A. Hallock, D.D. (1882). He died in New York city, Oct. 2, 1880.

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

History of Plainfield, (Hampshire County) Massachusetts

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