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Mary Hall (other)
Mary Hall (1843–1927) was an American lawyer, poet, suffragist, and philanthropist. Mary Hall may also refer to: *Mary Ann Hall (1814/1815–1886), American brothel keeper in Washington, D.C. *Mary Ann Taylor-Hall (born 1937), American fiction writer and poet *Mary Fields Hall (1934–2022), American military nurse *Mary Hall (actress) (c. 1876–1960), American stage actress *Mary Hall (computer scientist), American computer scientist and professor at the University of Utah *Mary Lassells, married name Mary Hall, English 16th-century accuser of Queen Catherine Howard See also *Marie Hall (1884–1956), English violinist * {{hndis, Hall, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hall
Mary Hall (August 16, 1843 – November 15, 1927) was the first female lawyer in Connecticut, and also a poet, a suffragist, and a philanthropist. In 1882, the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors' decision to allow Hall to be admitted to the Connecticut Bar was the first judicial decision in the nation to hold that women were permitted to practice law.Matthew G. Berger, Mary Hall: The Decision and the Lawyer, 79 Conn. Bar J. 29 (2005). Early life Mary Hall was born in Marlborough, Connecticut, one of seven children of Gustavus E. Hall and Louisa (Skinner) Hall. Gustavus Hall was a prosperous farmer and miller, known to be one of liberal convictions. Hall graduated from Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in 1866. She was an accomplished poet, winning a medal for her commencement poem and having her poems published in newspapers. Hall then went on to teach mathematics at the LaSalle Seminary near Boston, where she became the Chair of Mathematics. In 1877, Hall decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Hall
Mary Ann Hall (1814 or 1815 – January 29, 1886) ran a successful brothel from the 1840s until about 1878 at 349 Maryland Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C., about four blocks west of the United States Capitol. Washington, D.C. brothel Before the National Museum of the American Indian was built on the site in 1999, the Smithsonian Institution conducted an archeological excavation of the foundations and garbage dump of the house. The expensive tableware in the garbage dump was made of ironstone and porcelain. Food remnants include meat, fowl, fish, and exotic fruits, including coconuts and berries. French champagne corks were especially numerous. She built a three-story house on the site, which rose greatly in value. In 1864, the Union Army's Provost Marshal published a list of brothels in Washington, D.C., and Mary Ann Hall's had 18 "inmates," making it the largest in the city. Death She died on January 29, 1886, with a net worth of $87,000, worth over $2,000,000 in 2005 dollars. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall (born 1937) is an American fiction writer and poet. She is the author of two novels, a book of short fiction, three collections of poetry, and has published widely in literary journals. She has lived on a farm in Kentucky for many years and was married to poet James Baker Hall. Biography Mary Ann Taylor-Hall was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1937. Her family moved to Winter Haven, Florida, when she was seven and she received her early education there. She attended Wesleyan College, in Macon, Georgia, and graduated with a BA in English from the University of Florida. She received her MA in English literature from Columbia University. Afterwards, she taught at Auburn University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Puerto Rico, and Miami University of Ohio. She was married to writer James Baker Hall, who died in 2009. She has lived on a farm on the Harrison-Scott County line in Central Kentucky for the past forty years. Writing Taylor-Hall's most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fields Hall
Mary Fields Hall (October 14, 1934 – July 21, 2022) was the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from 1987 to 1991. She was the first U. S. military nurse to command a hospital. She became the commanding officer at Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in July 1983, and later commanded Naval Hospital, Long Beach, California. Early life Mary Fields Hall was born in 1934 in Pennsylvania. She earned a nursing diploma from Episcopal Hospital School of Nursing, Philadelphia, in 1955. Navy Nurse Corps career She joined the Navy Nurse Corps in 1959. While in the Nurse Corps, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Boston University in 1966 and a Master of Science degree in nursing service administration from the University of Maryland in 1973. She became the commanding officer at Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in July 1983, and later commanded Naval Hospital, Long Beach, California. She became director of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1987, and was promoted to the rank of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hall (actress)
Mary Hall ( – December 8, 1960), born Mary deLuce White, was an American stage actress who appeared on Broadway from 1901 to 1929. She was part of the Castle Square Theatre in Boston, and a leading lady with Boston's Empire Theatre and the Pike Theatre of Cincinnati. She took her stage name from her first marriage to Smith B. Hall, with whom she was mother of sportscaster Halsey Hall. She died in New York City at age 84. Often billed as English due to early tours in London, she was born to judge Henry P. White and Euphemia deLuce of Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central ..., in a family of a three children. She became a prominent social leader in Kansas City, and married newspaperman Smith B. Hall in 1895. The "statuesque brunette" was nominated q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hall (computer Scientist)
Mary Wolcott Hall is an American computer scientist specializing in compilers and automatic parallelization. She is director of the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Education and career Hall's mother, a mathematics teacher, passed on her interest in computers to her daughter. Hall became an undergraduate at Rice University, originally majoring in computer science and managerial studies but switching to Rice's program in computer science and mathematical sciences, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. She continued at Rice for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1989 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991. Her dissertation, ''Managing Interprocedural Optimization'', was supervised by Ken Kennedy. She writes of this time "I only wanted to write a masters thesis and do some research, and I tried to quit twice, but each time Ken Kennedy talked me out of it." After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, a visiting assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lassells
Mary Hall (née Lassells or Lascelles) was an English gentlewoman whose report of the 'light' behaviour in her youth of Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Catherine Howard, initiated the process which ended with Queen Catherine's execution. Life Mary Lassells was the daughter of Richard, or George, Lassells of Gateford, Nottinghamshire (d. 1520), gentleman. She was in the household of the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk at Lambeth while Catherine Howard, later the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, was a young girl there under the lax guardianship of the Duchess, her step-grandmother. After Catherine became Queen, Mary's brother, the religious reformer John Lassells, suggested that his sister seek a place in her household. Mary refused, giving as a reason Catherine's former 'light' behaviour. John Lassells informed Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Mary's comment while King Henry and Queen Catherine were on progress in the fall of 1541. Cranmer questioned Mary, who provided details of the Queen's earli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
