HALL, Louisa Jane Park, poet, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 7 February, 1802. Her father, James Park, was a physician, but abandoned his profession and removed to Boston in 1804 to edit the "Repertory," a Federalist journal. In 1811 he opened a school for young ladies in Boston, where his daughter received a good education" but in 1.831 he removed with his family to Worcester. She was almost blind for several years, and during this period her father read to her, and assisted in the preparation of her books. In 1840 she married Reverend Edward B. Hall, a Unitarian clergyman of Providence, Rhode Island Her works are "Miriam," a dramatic poem, illustrative of the early conflicts of the Christian church, partly written in 1825 (1837); "Joanna of Naples," an historical tale in prose (Boston, 1838); and the "Life of Elizabeth Carter."