[Ezra Hall]. American author, born at Colchester, CT, on the 5th of July 1823; graduated at Yale in 1841, and at Union Theological Seminary in 1844, when he was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Harlem, NY, and in 1868 was appointed professor of political economy, ethics and history in the University of New York. He wrote much for various periodicals, and published The Life and Times of John Huss (1863); Life-Lessons in the School of Christian Duty (1864); History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1864); edited England Two Hundred Years Ago (1866); Ancient Cities and Empires (1867); God in Human Thought (1874); The Moral System (1874); etc. He died at Harlem on the 2nd of September 1875.
