Hall, Fanny Southard Hay, 1872-1968.

Hall was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., the daughter of Malcolm and Virginia Eleanor (Southard) Hay. She was educated at St. Agnes School in Albany, N.Y., and Bishop Thorpe School in Bethlehem, Pa. In 1896 she married Keppele Hall, an electrical engineer. A supporter of woman suffrage and a volunteer for the American Red Cross, Fanny Hall was also very active in the prison reform movement in Ohio, serving as chair of the Courts Committee of the Women's City Club of Cleveland, and as treasurer of the Ohio Committee on Penal Conditions. In 1923, she was the first woman to serve as foreman of a grand jury in the United States. Hall was also a board member of the Legal Aid Society and the Consumers' League of Ohio. In 1926 she moved to New York City, where she was an investigator for the Emergency Work Bureau. She was also a frequent visitor to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham. In addition to her civic work, Hall published a diary of her great aunt, Lucy Ann Higbee, in 1924.