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were 82^ years, and of this number twelve were upwards of 90 years one, the 

 grandfather of Major-General Henry Wagner Halleck, having reached the extreme 

 age of 103 years. At the later date of January, 1911', twenty are reported to 

 be living above 95. 



Charles Hallock's grandfather was Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plainfield, Mass., 

 and his great uncle, the Hon. Jeremiah Hallock, of Steubenville, Ohio. His grand- 

 father, Moses, while he had pastoral charge of the church in Plainfield, Mass., 

 taught a classical school in which 304 students were fitted for college. His father, 

 Gerard Hallock, a graduate of Williams College, broke ground for the founding of 

 Amherst College while principal of the Amherst Academy. 



Charles Hallock was married in New York on September 10, 1855, and had sons 

 born in 1856, 1860 and 1861, all of whom are dead. His wife's two Wardell uncles 

 founded the I. O. O. F. (Odd Fellows') in 1819. 



In 1900 Prof. Elliott Coues, of the Smithsonian Institution, wrote : "Charles 

 Hallock, A. M., while not strictly a scientist, has been a member of one or more of 

 the scientific societies of Washington since their organization, and has filled a unique 

 and useful position for fifty years as a close observer and discriminating collector 

 in the field of natural history. Prof. G. Brown Goode, of the National Museum, 

 once wrote : 'No man can help us like Charles Hallock.' No geographical division 

 of North America, marginal or intermediate, from the subarctic regions of Alaska 

 and Labrador to the Carribbean Seas, has escaped his attention, while his sketches 

 of travel which have appeared in the magazines and leading journals of the United 

 States and Canada, together with the Forest and Stream, which he established in 

 1878, and his numerous books, have given him an enviable prominence among 

 tourists, sportsmen and savants, not often acquired by specialists of his ilk. His 

 'Fishing Tourist,' published by the Harpers in 1873, was the record of twenty-five 

 years of wandering through the wilderness areas of the United States and British 

 provinces, and as long ago as 1878, George Dawson, the eminent editor of the Albany 

 Journal, and himself an angler of renown, wrote : 'Charles Hallock has written 

 more and more wisely than any of his contemporaries.' 



"As an ichthologist, Mr. Hallock led the van up to the date of his 'Sportsmen's 

 Gazetteer,' a 900-page volume, which appeared in 1877, that portion of it which 

 treated of the edible game fishes of America, their synonyms and classification, 

 being in advance of all other works, and was so quoted by Prof. Theo. Gill, who 

 assisted the author very materially in his description of the Pacific coast fishes therein 

 enumerated. 



"The Florida peninsula had early engaged Mr. Hallock's attention, and in 

 1874-5 he fitted out the Ober and Al Fresco (Dr. C. J. Kenworthy) expeditions 

 to the Seminole country and the west coast, and when his 'Camp Life in Florida' 

 appeared, in 1876, the citizens of Florida privately, and through the press and public 

 meetings, acknowledged to the author his substantial services rendered to the state, 

 so little had been previously written of its geography and resources. In the same 

 way Mr. Hallock received the thanks of Minnesota in 1858 for his services to that 

 state. And in 1859 he opened up the Aroostook forest region of Maine to agricul- 

 ture, through a summer of investigation, and a series of letters to the New York 

 Journal of Commerce, of which he was then junior editor. The summer of 1860 

 was devoted to an exploration of Labrador, in company with myself, and from 1863 

 to 1866 to the Maritime provinces, including Sable Island, the Magdalens and 

 Anticosti. Mr. Hallock was one of the pioneer prospectors among the Ontario 

 gold fields. The net objective results of these and many other similar adventures 



