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John Wortham Hall January 19 1802 - unknown
Bourbon County KyArchives Biography

Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, 
J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rev. John Wortham Hall, Clergyman and Educator, was born January 19, 1802, in 
Orange County, North Carolina, and is the only son of Thomas and Sarah Wortham 
Hall. His father was one of the most distinguished teachers of that State. J. 
W. Hall received his early education under his father, and afterward entered 
Harpeth Academy in Tennessee, where he graduated in 1834 under Rev. Gideon 
Blackburn. He afterward continued his theological studies under Dr. Blackburn 
for three years, and entered into the ministry as pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church at Murfreesboro, Tennessee; was for eleven years in charge of the church 
at Gallatin; while in charge of that church, established a flourishing female
college; subsequently moved to Ohio, and was for twelve years pastor of
Third Street Presbyterian Church of Dayton; from 1854 to 1866, was President
of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and, under his administration, that old
institution acquired its greatest degree of celebrity, and for the last ten
years he has been Superintendent of the public schools of Covington,
Kentucky. He has published a large number of pamphlets and literary
addresses, some of which have passed through several editions, and
established for him a reputation among the most scholarly writers of the
country. He has been distinguished for his finished oratory, and is one of
the most able ministers of the Presbyterian Church. He is a Hebrew, Greek,
and Latin scholar, and, as such, has probably few superiors in the country;
and, with his scholarly attainments, and his success as a teacher, he
deservedly stands among the first educators of the West. He has devoted
himself with great liberality to every good cause, and has given the greater
part of his life toward the advancement of best interests of mankind. Dr.
Hall was married December 18, 1828 to Catharine Presley Thornton of Paris,
Kentucky. He has two living children, a son and a daughter. His son, John W.
Hall Jr., is now principal of the high school of Covington.



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