Uriel Sebree Hall

Uriel Sebree Hall was born into a prestigious family on April 12, 1852. He was the son of William Augustus Hall who had moved to Randolph County in 1840 from Harper's Ferry, Virginia. And he was the grandson of John Hancock Hall, inventor of the M1819 Hall breech-loading rifle. Uriel was privately educated, and attended Mount Pleasant College in Huntsville. He founded an academy at Prairie Hill, Missouri and served as superintendent of schools in Moberly. He was admitted to the Bar in 1879, but in 1885 took up farming near Hubbard, Missouri. He entered politics in the early 1890s, and served as U.S. Congressman from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897. He declined to run for office again in 1896. Following leaving office he served as President of Pritchett College in Glasgow, Missouri until 1901. In 1918 he founded the Hall West Point-Annapolis Coaching School which he served as president of until his retirement in 1930. He died December 20, 1932 and was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Moberly, MO.