Inventory of the Channing Moore Hall Papers 1920-1953
A Collection in the
Special Collections Research Center
Accession Number Mss. Acc. 1992.66
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Special CollectionsEarl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794
USA
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Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Acquisition Information
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Susan Hall Godson and Ida Hall on 12/10/1992.
Biographical Note
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Arrangement of Materials
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.
Related Material
Hall Family Papers
Index Terms
- College of William and Mary--Board of Visitors
- Correspondence
- College of William and Mary--History--20th century.
- Williamsburg (Va.)--City Council.
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century.