HASCALL, Daniel, clergyman, born in Bennington, Vermont, 24 February, 1782; died in Hamilton, New York, 28 June, 1852. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1806, and afterward studied theology while engaged in teaching in Pittsfield, Massachusetts He became pastor of the Baptist church in Elizabethtown, New York, in 1808, and in 1813 was called to Hamilton, New York he received pupils in theology in 1815, and after he had established the Baptist education society of New York in 1817, his school was merged in 1820 in the Hamilton literary and theological institution (now Madison university), which was opened under his charge. In 1828 he dissolved his pastorate in order to devote his time to this institution, which he left in 1835 to give his attention to the interests of an academy in Florence, Oneida County, New York he removed to West Rutland, Vermont, in 1837, and in 1848 became pastor of a church in Lebanon, New York, but in 1849 returned to Hamilton. He published "Elements of Theology," designed for family reading and Bible classes; a smaller work for Sunday schools: "Cautions against False Philosophy" (1817); and a pamphlet entitled "Definition of the Greek Baptizo" (1818).