THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
Vol. XXXI. APRIL, 1903. No. 4. 
THE LIFE AND WORK OF PROFESSOR 
CHARLES M. HALL. 
By Wakren Upham, St. Paul, Miun. 
PORTRAIT— PLATE XIII. 
In the comparatively new states west of Minnesota, resi- 
dent geologists are few. Many problems of theoretic and ec- 
onomic geology wait there to be worked out. The death of a 
young geologist, who was well equipped and earnest for this 
work, who had grown from boyhood to manhood in North 
Dakota, whom to know was to esteem and love, is therefore 
a great loss, not only to his personal friends, but to the wider 
interests of education and science. 
Charles Monroe Hall was born in Wellington, Ohio, Oc- 
tober 21, 1870. When he was about twelve years old, his par- 
ents and the family removed to North Dakota (then a part of 
Dakota Territory), settling in Stutsman county, near the pres- 
ent town of Eldridge. Later they removed to Grand Rapids, 
on the James river in La Moure county, where they engaged 
several years in farming. In 1891 his parents removed to the 
state of Virginia, where they have since resided. ■ Charles, 
however, preferred to remain in North Dakota, entered the 
State Agricultural College at Fargo, went through the usual 
course of four years, and was graduated in 1895, with high 
honors. 
Immediately after his graduation, he was appointed assist- 
ant professor of chemistry and geology in that college, where 
he taught during the next two years. To better qualify him- 
self for his duties there, he then obtained a leave of absence 
for a year of special studies in Johns Hopkins University. 
