HALL, Samuel Read, educator, born in Croydon, New Hampshire, 27 October, 1795; died in Bennington, Vermont, 24 June, 1877. He began to teach in Rumford, Maine, in 1814, and in 1822 was principal of an academy in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, being also licensed as a Congregational minister. He removed to Concord, Vermont, in 1823, and organized the first school in the United States for the training of teachers, which he conducted until 1830. He was chosen in that year principal of the English department of Phillips Andover academy, and in 1829 he aided in founding the American institute of instruction. He removed to Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1837, and kept a teachers' seminary there until 1840, when he went to Craftsbury, Vermont, and established in connection with the academy a teachers' department, which he taught until 1846. He published the "Instructor's Manual, or Lectures on School Keeping" (Boston, 1829); "Lectures on Education," and "Geography for Children."