Hall, John Howe, 1881-

John Howe Hall, metallurgical engineer, was born on June 20, 1881, to David Prescott and Florence Marion (Howe) Hall in South Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He received his Harvard AB in 1903 and his AM in 1904. Hall married Gertrude Earnshaw in 1915; they had five children. In 1937, he left the Taylor-Wharton Iron and Steel Company in High Bridge, New Jersey after thirty-one years employment as a metallurgical engineer. From 1942-1945, Hall worked for the General Steel Castings Corporation, afterwards engaging in consulting practice. He wrote The Steel Foundry in 1914 and was the recipient of the American Foundrymen's Association's first J.H. Whiting Gold Medal, awarded in 1924. Hall died on August 4, 1953, in Tarrytown, New York.