Biography

07/17/1846 - 06/21/1916

HALL, Franklin, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, July 17, 1846 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company A, 192nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864, Civil War); machinist; iron manufacturer; general contractor; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1882; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1884); died, June 21, 1916 in New York City, New York; interred, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.