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Christiana Gulielma (Penn) Gaskell died at her house in Thornbaugh street, Bedford square, London, England, March 24, 1803, at the age of sixty-nine years, having survived her husband, Peter Gaskell, eighteen years. There are two portraits of Christiana Gulielma Penn-Gaskell, one in the possession of Alexander Penn-Gaskell, of London, and the other in possession of her great- great-granddaughter, Christiana Gulielma Penn-Gaskell Hall, of Philadelphia.
Peter Gaskell and Christiana Gulielma Penn had issue :-
Thomas Penn Gaskell, b. 1762, eldest son, inherited the Irish estates and those in Penn- sylvania. He m. in 1794, Lady Diana Sackville, daughter of the Dowager Countess of Glandore, who lived but a few years, and their only child died in infancy. He therefore died without issue, and his estates descended to his younger brother, Peter Penn-Gaskell, of Shanagarry. A contemporary obituary notice says, "Died at his house in Fitz William Square, Dublin, on the 19th of October, 1823, aged 61, Thomas Penn-Gaskell of Shanagarry in the county of Cork, Esq. This gentleman was the heir-general of the celebrated legislator William Penn. * His estate in the * * county of Cork Mr. Gaskell inherited by lineal succession from his illustrious ancestor Admiral Sir William Penn. *
* * After being engaged for 40 years in a suit in the Irish chancery and expending upwards of £20,000. he obtained a decree to possess his estates. He married, in the year 1794 a daughter of the Dowager Countess of Glandore, who lived but a few years and had one son who died an infant".
PETER PENN-GASKELL, b. 1763, d. July 16, 1831; m. Elizabeth Edwards; of whom presently.
Alexander Forbes Gaskell, who d. s. p.
William Gaskell, of London, England, later known as Penn-Gaskell, married; children:
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William Penn-Gaskell, of London, b. Feb. 20, 1808; m. and had ten children, the youngest of whom, George Penn-Gaskell, resided in 1898, at No. 12 Nicoll road, Willesden, S. W. London.
Elizabeth Penn-Gaskell, d. s. p. Jane Gaskell, d. s. p.
PETER PENN-GASKELL, second son of Peter Gaskell and Christiana Gulielma Penn, born at Bath, England, 1763, came to Pennsylvania after the death of his father in 1785, and resided at "Ashwood" near Villanova, Delaware county, after 1796, in which year he purchased the estate there which remained in the family until 1888, when it was sold by Col. Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall, U. S. A., to whom it had been devised by his aunt, Eliza Penn-Gaskell, to Dr. J. M. DaCosta. On May 31, 1824, Peter Penn-Gaskell obtained a "Royal License" to assume the additional surname of his mother, Penn. At the death of his brother, Thomas Penn-Gaskell, he inherited Shanagarry and the other Irish estates. He died at "Ashwood", July 16, 1831.
Peter Penn-Gaskell married, in 1793, at St. David's, Radnor, Elizabeth Edwards, born 1772, daughter of Nathan Edwards, of Radnor, Delaware county, who survived him but three years, dying July 19, 1834. In her will she directs that three thousand dollars be expended in erecting tombstones over her hus- band, herself and her children in the Lower Merion burial ground (back of Bryn Mawr College).
Issue of Peter and Elizabeth (Edwards) Penn-Gaskell :-
William Penn-Gaskell, b. 1794, d. unm. October 12. 1817.
Thomas Penn-Gaskell, "of Shanagarry", referred to in Burke's "Landed Gentry", edition of 1879, as "of Ballymaloe, County Cork, Ireland, and Penn Hall, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, born 1796." He was married Dec. 22, 1825, by Right Rev. Bishop White of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to Mary, daughter of George Blair McClenachan. He d. at his home "Penn Lodge" in Lower Merion, near Philadelphia, Sunday morning, Oct. 18, 1846, in his 52d year, and was buried in his vault at St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Thirteenth street, above Chestnut, where his wife, who died December 21, 1867, is also buried. A portrait of Thomas Penn-Gaskell, by the artist Henry Inman, is in possession of his grand-niece, Gulielma Penn-Gaskell Hall.
Eliza Penn-Gaskell, b. 1798, d. unm. at "Ashwood", where she had always resided, Nov. 23, 1865. By her will she devised "Ashwood" to her nephew, Col. Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall.
Alexander Forbes Penn-Gaskell, d. unm. at "Ashwood" Sept. 8, 1829, "aged 29".
PETER PENN-GASKELL JR., b. April 3, 1803, d. April 6, 1866; m. Louisa Adelaide Heath ; of whom presently.
CHRISTIANA GULIELMA PENN-GASKELL, b. 1806, d. March 29, 1830; married William Von Swartzbreck Hall; of whom later.
Jane Penn-Gaskell, b. 1808, d. unm. July 7, 1852, bur. at Lower Merion Baptist Church, beside her parents.
Isaac Penn-Gaskell, b. 1810, named in Browning's "Americans of Royal Descent" as "Dr. Isaac Penn-Gaskell, of Paris", d. unm. Oct. 24, 1842. His will bearing date the day previous to his death was probated May 16, 1845, though letters of administration had previously been granted to his eldest brother, Thomas Penn-Gaskell, who in withdrawing them states his "belief of the mental incapacity of the decedent to make a will remains unaltered."
PETER PENN-GASKELL, "of Shanagarry in the county of Cork, Ireland, and 1613 Chestnut street, in the City of Philadelphia," as he styles himself in his will, was born at "Ashwood", Delaware county, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1803. At the
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death of his brother Thomas in 1846, he became the eldest male representative of the elder line of the descendants of William Penn, the Founder, and as such inherited the Irish estate of Shanagarry, which at his death in Philadelphia, April 6, 1866, he devised to his eldest son William, and default of issue of him to his other son Peter Penn-Gaskell, 2d, to whom it descended. He married, Febru- ary 15, 1825, Louise Adelaide Heath, daughter of Charles P. and Esther ( Keely) Heath, and a descendant, through her mother, from Capt. Anthony Wayne, grandfather of Gen. Anthony Wayne of the Revolution, the latter being a first cousin to her great-grandmother, Esther Wayne.
Louisa Adelaide (Heath) Penn-Gaskell survived her husband twelve years. Her will dated at London, June 29, 1869, gives her residence as "of Philadel- phia, in the United States of America, but now residing at Eastbourne Ter- race, Hyde Park, London". Three codicils were later added, the last on March 27, 1877, and it was proven in Philadelphia, July 30, 1878.
Issue of Peter Penn-Gaskell and Louisa Adelaide Heath :-
Elizabeth Penn-Gaskell, b. 1823, d. 1869; m. Samuel Ruff Skillern, M. D., of Huntsville, Ala., later of Philadelphia, a nephew of the famous international beauty and wit, Madame Claude Le Verte, of Mobile, Ala. Their only surviving child was,
Penn-Gaskell Skillern, b. at Columbia, S. C., April 29, 1856, educated at Rugby Academy, Philadelphia, Andover Academy and Pennsylvania Military Acad- emy, He entered the Medical Department of Univ. Pa., and received his medical degree in 1877, and has since practiced his profession in Philadelphia, at 241 South Thirteenth street.
Dr. Penn-Gaskell Skillern m. (first) Oct. 17, 1878, Anna, daughter of Robert Ralston Dorsey, of Philadelphia, by his wife Anna, who d. Oct. 8, 1900. He m. (second) June 25, 1903, Theodocia Hendrickson Hartman, daughter of Joseph and Theodocia (Imlay) Hartman. By his first wife Dr. Skillern had issue : Violet Skillern, b. Nov. 13, 1879; Penn-Gaskell Skillern Jr., b. March 26, 1882. Louella Skillern, the other child of Dr. Samuel R. and Elizabeth (Penn- Gaskell) Skillern, d. aged three years.
Louisa Penn-Gaskell, d. 1853, without issue; m. May 15, 1845, at St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, William Gerald FitzGerald, of Ireland.
Mary Gulielma Penn-Gaskell, d. in childhood.
Gulielma Penn-Gaskell, d. unm. in 1852.
Hetty Penn-Gaskell, d. unm.
Mary Penn-Gaskell, d. Aug. 22, 1877; m. in 1855, Dr. Isaac T. Coates, of Chester county, Pa., who d. June 23, 1883; they had issue, one child, Harold Penn-Gaskell Coates, m. Jarvis, of Philadelphia.
William Penn-Gaskell, born 1836, died December 6, 1865; entered the U. S. service, August 9, 1862, as Second Lieutenant of an Independent Company of Acting Engineers recruited under authority of the War Department; was pro- moted to First Lieutenant, December 16, 1862, and to Captain, March 30, 1863, and after serving with great credit was discharged on surgeon's certificate, July 5, 1864. He died December 6, 1865, after a lingering and distressing illness of consumption. An obituary notice in a New Orleans newspaper of January 13, 1866, says he died surrounded by every member of his family, father, mother, brother and sisters and that his scholastic attainments for one so young were very great, being well versed in science, metaphysics, history, romance and poetry, "possessed of a modest and retiring character, yet when his sweet voice was heard dignity of speech, good sense and social eloquence accompanied it. He would have been the heir of Shanagarry, both as eldest male heir and devisee of his father's will, but died before his father.
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Jane Penn-Gaskell, married Washington Irving, U. S. N., a nephew of the famous author whose name he bore. She died without issue in 1863.
Emily Penn-Gaskell, married, in 1864, John Paul Quinn, M. D., Surgeon U. S. N., and had issue-Granville Penn-Gaskell Quinn, born 1871, died 1893.
Peter Penn-Gaskell, born October 24, 1843, succeeded to Shanagarry and the other Irish estates on the death of his father in 1866, and was the owner thereof until his death in 1905. He was educated at Heidelburg, and returning to Amer- ica, entered the United States Army, was commissioned Second Lieutenant of First Regiment New Jersey Cavalry, April 7, 1862, promoted First Lieutenant, November 7, 1862, and to Captain, October 23, 1863. He resigned the latter commission February 3, 1864, to become Major of the Second Battalion Louisi- ana Cavalry, in which position he served until September 7, 1864. After suc- ceeding to the Irish estates in 1866, he went to Europe, and July 6, 1869, was married to Mary Kathleen, eldest daughter of Charles Edward Stubbs, Sussex Square, Hyde Park, London. Soon after his marriage, Peter Penn-Gaskell and his wife made a visit to the United States, but he lived almost entirely abroad until his death, mostly in London, where his mother resided with him for some years.
In 1877 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania inscribed to Peter Penn-Gas- kell the engraving after the painting of William Penn in armour. Accompany- ing this engraving are the arms of Penn-Gaskell of Shanagarry, which as described by Burke, are :----
Quarterly : Ist and 4th or., three bars engrailed vert. in chief a rose gu. barbed and seeded ppr. between two trefoils slipped of the second, for Gaskell, (being practically the arms born by the Gaskells of Beaumont Hall, Lancashire, Kid- dington Hall, Oxford, and those of Rolfe's Hold, in Bucks.) 2d and 3d, the arms of Penn, viz :- arg. on a fesse sable three plates a canton, gu. there on a crown, ppr. representing the royal crown of Charles II .; crests: for Gaskell, a sinister arm embowed with an anchor erect with cable, sable; motto-over "Spes"; of Penn, A demi-lion arg. gorged with a collar sa. charged with three plates ; motto-over, "Pennsylvania."
Peter Penn-Gaskell and Mary Kathleen Stubbs, had issue: William Penn- Gaskell, unm., Winifred Penn-Gaskell, unm., Percy Penn-Gaskell, unm.
CHRISTIANA GULIELMA PENN-GASKELL, second daughter of Peter Penn-Gas- kell ( Ist), by his wife Elizabeth Edwards, born at "Ashwood"; Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1806, married, January 2, 1827, William Von Swartzbreck Hall, born at Wavertree, Lancashire, England, in 1799. He was the second son of Richard Hall of Wavertree, a prominent Liverpool merchant and vessel owner, extensively engaged in the South American and West Indian trade, and also interested in the "Straffordshire Potteries", the management of a branch of which, brought William Von S. Hall, his son, to America, in 1826.
William Von Swartzbreck Hall's mother was Elizabeth Von Swartzbreck, of whom her son. Dr. Edward Hall, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, wrote in his diary in 1823: "Our mother's family was originally German; our great- grandfather, by name Edward Von Swartzbreck, was the first that settled in England. He came over with his cousin, Arnold Yost Von Keppell, in the reign of William III. Keppell was created Earl of Albermarle, and his descendant now sits in the House of Lords, and is third cousin to our mother. Edward Von Swartzbreck married Ann Gaunt, of Singleton, Lancashire (Von Keppell
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had been made Viscount of Bury, near Singleton), descended from John of Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln. Their son, James Von Swartzbreck, married Alicia Porter, and was father of Elizabeth Von Swartzbreck, who married Richard Hall, of 'Small House', Broughton, Yorkshire, in 1796. James Von Swartz- breck had four brothers who suffered on the scaffold for abetting Charles Stuart, 'the Pretender', during the uprising in Lancashire."
The American branch of the Hall family has been of Gargrave, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, since the latter part of 1500, where it was established by John Hall, son of Robert Hall, of "Leventhorpe" (an estate five miles east of Leeds, York). The pedigree of Robert Hall, of "Leventhorpe", which traces back through the Leventhorpe family, from 1531, was compiled by "Beckwith" from deeds, wills, and parish records. From 1531 to 1700, Hall of Leventhorpe is contained in Dugdale's visitation of Yorkshire, edited by Foster. The Skipton and Gargrave branch of the family is mentioned in the Herald's visitation of London, 1568, and Foster has continued the East Lieling branch to its living representative, Maj .- Gen. Hall-Plumber, of the English army.
The first mention of the family in the Herald's book states that "Robert Hall married the heiress of Sir John Leventhorpe in 1394," and founded the family of the Halls of Leventhorpe.
A claim made by the Skipton and Gargrave branch of the family, but not proved to date, makes Robert Hall, married 1394, the great-grandson of Sir Francis de Halle, of Halle, in the Tyrol, who entered the service of Edward III. of England. His pedigree, as passed by the Heralds' College in 1545 (see visi- tation Shropshire Hall of North Hall), shows Francis de Halle to have been one of twenty-one children, issue of Albert I. (Hapsburg), Emperor of Austria, died 1303, whose descent is traced to 760 A. D. and Elizabeth, Countess of Halle, died 1313, (see Robinson's "Royal Pedigrees," and Coxe's "House of Austria.") Prob- ability, at least, is leant to the Hapsburg claim by the most possible origin of the Hall arms, as will be seen from the following pedigree of Hall of Northall.
SIR FRANCIS DE HALLE, of Halle, in the Tyrol, son of Albert I. of Austria, and Elizabeth, Countess of Halle, entered the service of Edward III. of England, and was joint marshal with Sir Walter Manny of the army of "the good Duke of Lan- caster," in the war in Guienne, in 1544; was one of the heroes of Poitiers with the Black Prince; 40th Knight of the Garter ; Governor of Calais, etc., etc. (Frois- sart's Chronology.) He married Blanche, daughter of Robert de Artois, of Richmond, North Riding of Yorkshire, and had issue :
ROBERT HALLE, a Knight in the Westminster Roll, reign of Richard II; m. Maria, sole heiress of Robert A. Ketfield, Knight de Orleton (or Moreton?), of county Hereford, and had issue :-
HENRY HALL, Master of the Horse under Richard II., and Governor of Ross in Ireland. (His brothers were: Francis, John and Alexander, of county Here- ford). He married Margaretha, daughter of John de Eureux, and had issue :---
ROBERT HALL, who is claimed to have married the heiress of Sir John Leven- thorpe, in 1394.
Sir Francis de Halle's arms, as placed on his Garter Stall in Westminster, show the Dragon of Halle, etc. His son, Robert Hall, married into the A. Ketfield de Orleton (or Moreton) family, whose arms were: Argent, a fess, between two greyhounds, courant, sable, and may have been adopted by him. 2
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Henry Hall, his son, was Governor of Ross, in the south of Ireland, which had recently been taken by the English. The badge of Ross is a greyhound and stag, courant, since the English occupation, and may have originated with its first gov- ernor.
Robert Hall (claimed son of Henry) bore arms of Leventhorpe: Argent, a fess, between two greyhounds, courant sable-crest ; on a chapeau, gules, turned up argent, a greyhound, sejant, ermine. Motto: Quo fata vocant (where ever Fate may call). There is a painting of these arms in the Swillington Parish Church, near the estate of Leventhorpe, dating from the sixteenth century, which has the word "Haste" written over the crest. The motto would seem an appropriate one for an adventurer such as Francis de Halle appears to have been. The arms of Leventhorpe were: Argent, a fess, between three fleur-de-lis.
While Henry Hall was Governor of Ross and "Master of the Horse" to Rich- ard II., John Leventhorpe was also high in favor with that monarch. In fact, both families were very prominent prior to the Reformation. They were of those Yorkshire and Lancaster families who retained their Catholicism and re- mained faithful to the House of Stuart, and suffered much in consequence.
Sir John Leventhorpe, a cadet of the family, whose heiress Robert Hall mar- ried in 1394, is stated to have come from "Leventhorpe Hall," near Swillington, West Riding of Yorkshire, in the fifteenth year of Richard II. (1392), and set- tled at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire (it will be remembered that the North Hall pedigree states that Henry Hall, Governor of Ross, had brothers: Francis, John, and Alexander, of Hereford, or Hertford?), where the family have left many interesting monuments in neighboring churches. Sir John Leventhorpe rep- resented his shire in several parliaments, and was one of the executors of the will of Henry V., and held several other offices of honor. He died in 1433, leaving issue. He was granted freedom to hunt in all the King's lands in Hertfordshire and Essex, also "fair markets" in the principal Hertfordshire towns, and per- mission to embark or inclose four hundred and eighty acres of land, forming part of the town of Sawbridgeworth.
The descendants of Robert Hall, of Leventhorpe, were equally fortunate, and became one of the most prominent families in the country. In 1394 none but ducal families were allowed to use a "chapeau" in their crests, and the heralds of the present day consider it a great honor. The "Leventhorpe Arms" are found quartered with others in a number of churches of Southern Yorkshire. Whitkirk Church, in particular, contains a large memorial window erected by a member of the family in the sixteenth century.
The county of York has been represented in Parliament by the following mem- bers of the family : In the reign of Queen Mary, 1553, by Robert Hall once ; in Elizabeth's reign, 1562, by Ralph Hall twice, and by Henry Hall once. The following have been Lords Mayor of York, at that time the second city in the kingdom : in the reign of Henry VIII., John Hall and Robert Hall, the latter be- ing again Lord Mayor in Queen Mary's reign; Henry Hall, Lord Mayor in Eliza- beth's reign, and again in James I's reign.
From records in the possession of the Gargrave and Skipton branch of the family, it is known that Robert Hall, of Leventhorpe, died in 1565; had issue, among others, John Hall, died 1611, who was possessed of estates on the south bank of the river Aire, midway between Skipton and Gargrave, known severally
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as "Coppy Plantation", "Small House", "Hall's Close", and "Hall Field", all in the parish of Broughton, about seventeen miles from "Leventhorpe Hall." John Hall was succeeded by Roger Hall, Sr., born 1635, died 1720, who had issue, among others, John Hall, Jr., born 1671, died 1717, who had, among others, Henry Hall, born 1698, died 1762. This Henry Hall "came into the family Estates when he was 19 years of age" * * * "through gambling and other means he lost all the family property except a part known as "Hall's Close", about one mile north of the village of Broughton, which he left to his son John Hall, born 1734, died 1807, who was compelled by misfortunes to part with it. "Hall's Close" was worth £2300 per annum in 1827.
John Hall of "Coppy House" had issue, among others, his second son,
RICHARD HALL, who removed to Wavertree, Lancashire, when a young man, and became a prominent merchant and ship owner of Liverpool, carrying on an extensive trade with South American and West Indian ports. He married, as before stated, Elizabeth Von Swartzbreck, like himself of ancient German an- cestry. The pedigree of the Gargrave branch of the Hall family shows intermar- riages with several prominent families of York and Lancashire.
Richard and Elizabeth (Von Swartzbreck) Hall had issue :-
James Hall, of Liverpool, succeeded his father, and d. Sept. 2, 1850; WILLIAM VON SWARTZBRECK HALL, of whom presently ;
Richard Hall Jr., of "Caernarvon Hall", county Essex, b. April 21, 1800; m. April 25, 1831, Frances, daughter of Dr. John Latham, who was Court Physician and Dean of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; their only surviving son is John Oswald Hall, of Buenos Ayres, Argentine, where he went to take charge of his uncle James's shipping interests. He is a well known collector of orchids, and has a large country seat near Buenos Ayres; he is interested in charitable affairs and has erected a church on his estate.
John Hall, a planter in Venezuela, who had sons, John and Edward, at college in Eng- land, in 1879.
Edward Von Swartzbreck Hall, b. May 13, 1804, d. July 30, 1881; was youngest resident physician of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; was member of Royal College of Surgeons, and corresponding member of a number of English medical societies; was a prolific writer, especially in the field of vital statistics, and on the manage- ment of hospitals. (See "Catalogue Phila. College of Physicians"). He m. June, 1831, Mary Latham, sister to his brother Richard's wife, and she being threatened with consumption, he removed to Hobart Town, Tasmania, where he resided until his death, July 31, 1881; he was sixteen years on the Tasmania medical staff of the Imperial government; was Health Commissioner at Hobart, member of the Board of Charities, etc., until his death. He was author of "Climate and Vital Statistics of Tasmania", "Epidemic Diseases of Tasmania", "Medical Topography and Vital Statistics of Hobart Town", etc. His later years were spent in philanthropic work, and in collecting different translations of the Bible. His book, "Who translated the Bible", is considered a standard work. He is survived by one son, Leventhorpe Hall, in the British Civil Service, and four daughters, one of whom, Anastasia Hall, is an authoress of considerable merit.
Henry Hall, b. March II, 1807; was ordained a priest, June 5, 1830, and a number of his sermons have been published in various Roman Catholic journals; d. at Louth, Lin- colnshire, England, July 9, 1878.
Alicia Hall, married Capt. May.
John Hall, D. D., a first cousin of the above mentioned family, was "The Priest of Macclesfield", who founded St. Albans and a number of Roman Catholic chap- els. Another relative, Rev. William Hall, was Vicar of Gawsthorpe, Cheshire. He was an uncle to William Latham.
WILLIAM VON SWARTZBRECK HALL, second son of Richard Hall, of Liverpool, and his wife Elizabeth Von Swartzbreck, born 1799, came to America in 1824, as
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his father's business representative, in connection with the pottery and shipping business. Through the marriage of his brothers to the two daughters of Dr. John Latham, and his own distant relationship with the Latham family, who were settled near the Gaskells of Macclesfield, in Cheshire, and were on intimate terms with them, as is shown by letters from Alexander Forbes and William Gaskell, Mr. Hall was introduced to the family of Peter Penn Gaskell, of "Ashwood", on his arrival in Pennsylvania, and January 2, 1827, as before stated, he married Peter Penn-Gaskell's daughter, Christiana Gulielma at Christ Church, Phila- delphia, Right Rev. Bishop William White performing the ceremony. Williamn Von Swartzbreck Hall had received a liberal education, and was a portrait painter of no mean ability, and followed his profession with success, until his death, September 26, 1862. He is buried at Lower Merion. Mrs. Hall died March 29, 1830, at the age of twenty-four years.
Issue of William Von Swartzbreck and Christiana Gulielma (Penn-Gaskell) Hall :-
William Penn-Gaskell Hall, b. Nov. 26, 1827, d. unm. May 2, 1862; was student at Univ. Pa., College Dept., 1842-43, and Medical Dept., 1844-46; devoted much time to literary and scientific studies; was author of a number of poems published in the Bizarre and newspapers of the day; most of his life was spent in foreign travel; PETER PENN-GASKELL HALL, of whom presently.
PETER PENN-GASKELL HALL, of "Ashwood" and 906 Spruce street, Phila- delphia, second son of William Von Swartzbreck Hall by his wife Christiana Gulielma Penn-Gaskell, born in Philadelphia, March 16, 1830, died February I, 1905. He studied at Dr. Crawford's School and under tutors abroad, and en- tered Princeton University, and on his graduation took up the study of law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the service of the United States, and May 31, 1861, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in 26th Pennsylvania Volunteers ; pro- moted to First Lieutenant, August 25, 1861 ; was with the Army of the Potomac throughout the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, and participated in the various battles in the advance of the army upon Richmond, Virginia. On November 6, 1863, he was commissioned Major, and appointed Paymaster of Volunteers, serving in that capacity until November 15, 1865. At the close of the Civil War he entered the regular army, and January 17, 1867, was appointed Pay- master, with rank of Major, and continued in that position until July 2, 1891, when he was honorably retired after thirty years' service. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel for gallant and meritorious service. At the time of his decease he was President of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; a member of the Society of Colonial Wars; of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Philadelphia and other clubs.
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