Introduction

Homer was the son of Da­ni­el Hall, and hus­band of Mar­ga­ret Mc­Coun Lane.

An at­tor­ney, au­thor and poet, he served as ci­ty clerk of Troy, New York. The Rice Build­ing in Troy was orig­in­al­ly named the Hall Build­ing af­ter him.

Works

• A Col­lect­ion of Col­lege Words and Cus­toms (Cam­bridge, Mas­sa­chu­setts: John Bart­lett, 1856)
• History of East­ern Ver­mont, from Its Ear­li­est Set­tle­ment to the Close of the Eight­eenth Cen­tu­ry (New York: Ap­ple­ton, 1858)
• Bibliography of the Unit­ed States, 1860