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Source: See Full Citation Below Biography
Author: S. J. Clarke

PROFESSOR WILLIAM FRANKLIN HALL.
    Professor William Franklin Hall, city superintendent of schools at Camden,
was born in Booneville, Logan county, Arkansas, November 29, 1882, his parents
being Benjamin F. and Mary A. (Graham) Hall, who were natives of Kentucky and
North Carolina, respectively. In young manhood and young womanhood, immediately
after the Civil war, they had come to Arkansas and were married in this state.
Benjamin F. Hall served in the Confederate army throughout the period of
hostilities between the north and the south and following his removal to
Arkansas he took up a homestead claim in what is now Logan county, residing
thereon to the time of his death in 1890, his labors winning him place among the
leading and representative farmers of that locality. His wife is still living
and makes her home with her son, William F.

    As a student in the Magazine Academy at Magazine, Arkansas, following the
completion of his public school course, Professor Hall entered upon higher
educational work and also attended Ouachita College, from which he received his
Bachelor of Law degree in 1910. He displayed the elemental strength of his
character by paying his own way through high school and college, for his father
died when the son was but eight years of age and he was early thrown upon his
own resources. During his high school course he had to discontinue his
attendance for a year and teach school in order to secure funds to meet the
further expenses of his high school days. While a college student he taught
school in the summer vacations. Following his graduation from college he became
a high school principal at Booneville, filling the position for one year and
then went to Portland, Arkansas, as principal of the high school of that place.
A year later he was chosen superintendent of schools there and continued to fill
the position for two years. He next went to Russellville. Arkansas, as principal
of the high school and after occupying the position for one year he was made
superintendent of schools, continuing to act in that responsible position for
five years. In 1920 he was called to Camden as superintendent of schools and has
remained here, winning many stanch friends during the period of his residence in
this city, while his work here has added to his reputation as a most successful
educator. Professor Hall is a student as well as a teacher and in the many years
of his educational work he has made use of his vacation periods either in travel
to broaden his views or in postgraduate work. He took special work at the
Chicago University in the summer of 1911 and attended Peabody Institute in the
summer of 1914. The summer of 1919 was spent in the Teachers College of Columbia
University, New York city, while the summer of 1920 was devoted to special work
at the Arkansas State University. He plans to take his master's degree some time
in the near future at Columbia University and is constantly working to that end.
His professional ideals are very high and he has accomplished splendid results,
regarding education not merely as the acquirement of knowledge, but as a
preparation for life's responsible duties. He is putting forth every effort to
make his service of the greatest benefit to those who come under his instruction.

    Professor Hall is a member of Russellville Lodge, No. 244, A. F. & A. M.,
and also of Camden Lodge, K. P. His religious faith is indicated by his
membership in the Baptist church, in which he is serving as a deacon and also as
a member of the board of trustees. He is interested in all those forces which
make for higher development along intellectual and moral lines and while seeking
to attain high* ideals the plans which he follows are of a most practical and
resultant character.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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