Title: Mary Hall
Name: Mary Hall
Birth/Death Dates: August 16, 1843 - November 15, 1927
Birth/Death Location: Marlborough, Connecticut / Hartford, Connecticut
Notable For: After working as a teacher for several years, Mary Hall pursued her dream of becoming a lawyer. In 1882, she passed the bar examination, but it took a State Supreme Court decision in her favor to admit her. She became Connecticut's first female lawyer (only the second in the United States to practice law). Later, she founded the Goodwill Club--an organization which housed young, wayward boys, and set up a camp in her hometown of Marlborough. She also wrote several on the history of Marlborough, and was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Also, her family owned the Marlborough Tavern (purchased from the original owner, Elisha Buell) until Mary willed it to the Colonial Dames upon her death.
Description: Portrait of Miss Mary Hall in profile. (unknown date)
Sources: Local History files in the collection of the Richmond Memorial Library.
Links:
Berger, Matthew G. "Mary Hall: The Decision and The Lawyer," Connecticut Bar Journal. Vol. 79, No. 1.
Used by permission of the author.
http://womenslegalhistory.stanford.edu/articles/hall_m_79cbj291.pdf
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
http://www.cwhf.org/hall/hall/hall.htm
Hall, Mary. "Marlborough," Memorial History of Hartford County, CT. J. Hammond Trumbull, editor. Boston: Edward L. Osgood, 1886.
http://history.rays-place.com//ct/marlborough-ct.htm