HALL, JAMES (17931868)

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HALL, JAMES (17931868) , American judge and man of letters, was born at Philadelphia on the 19th of August 1793. After for some time prosecuting the study of law, he in 1812 joined the army, and in the war with

Great

GREAT

Britain distinguished himself in engagements at Lundy's

Lane

, Niagara and Fort

Erie

ERIE

. On the conclusion of the war he accompanied an expedition against Algiers, but in 1818 he resigned his commission, and continued the study of law at Pittsburg. In 1820 he removed to Shawnee-town,

Illinois

ILLINOIS

, where he commenced practice at the bar and also edited the

Illinois

ILLINOIS

Gazette

GAZETTE

. Soon after he was appointed public prosecutor of the circuit, and in 1824 state circuit judge. In 1827 he became state treasurer, and held that

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

till 1831, but he continued at the same time his. legal practice and also edited the Illinois Intelligencer. Subsequently he became editor of the Western Souvenir, an annual publication, and of the Illinois Monthly Magazine, afterwards the Western Monthly Magazine. He died near Cincinnati on the 5th of July 1868.
The following are his

principal

PRINCIPAL

works:Letters from the West, originally contributed to the

Portfolio

PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf)

, and collected and published in London in 1828; Legends of the West (1832); The Soldier's

Bride

BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

and other Tales (1832); The Harpe's Head, a Legend of Kentucky (1833) ; Sketches of the West (2 vols., 1835) ; Tales of the Border (1835) ; Notes on the Western States (1838) ; History of the Indian Tribes, in conjunction with T. L. M'Keeney (3 vols., 18381844); The Wilderness and the War-Path (1845) ; Romance of Western History (1857).

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