Title:: Channing Moore Hall Papers 1920-19531930-1953

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Channing Moore Hall Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
9.00
Creator:
Hall, Channing Moore, 1890-1953 arrangement
Abstract:
Professional and personal papers of Channing Moore Hall (1890-1953) attorney and mayor of Williamsburg. A box and folder list for the Channing Hall papers is available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Language:
The papers are in: English
Preferred citation:

Channing Moore Hall Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Professional and personal papers of Channing Moore Hall (1890-1953) attorney and mayor of Williamsburg. A box and folder list for the Channing Hall papers is available in the Special Collections Research Center.

Biographical / historical:

Channing Moore Hall was born February 3, 1890 and died May 31, 1953, the son of John Lesslie Hall and Margaret Fenwick Farland Hall. He married Nona Powell Sentz in 1925. His two children were Channing Moore Hall, Jr. and Susan Glentworth Hall Godson.

He received his A. B. degree from William and Mary in 1908 (Phi Beta Kappa) and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Virginia 1910. Served as 1st lieutenant, Field Artillery in World War I.

He served on the Williamsburg City Council and was mayor of Williamsburg from 1934-1947 and also served on the Board of Visitors of William and Mary. He served in many other civic capacities.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Susan Hall Godson and Ida Hall on 12/10/1992.
Arrangement:

Series 1 (Boxes 1-2) is the general correspondence of Hall; Series 2 (Box 3) is the family correspondence of Hall; Series 3 (Box 4) concerns the College of William and Mary; Series 4 (Boxes 5-7) is the civic and professional correspondence of Hall.