Hall, Asaph, 1800-1842

Biographical Note

Asaph Hall

• 1829, Oct. 15: Born, Goshen, Conn.
• 1856: Married Chloe Angeline Stickney (died 1892)
• 1857 - 1862 : Assistant, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1862: Aide, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.
• 1864: Professor of mathematics, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.
• 1877: Discovered the two moons of Mars
• 1891: Retired from the U.S. Naval Observatory
• 1897: Married Mary Bertha Gauthier
• 1907, Nov. 22: Died, Annapolis, Md.

Asaph Hall, Jr.

• 1859, Oct. 6: Born, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1882: A.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1882 - 1885 : Assistant, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.
• 1885 - 1889 : Assistant Astronomer, Yale Observatory, New Haven, Conn.
• 1889: Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1889 - 1892 : Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1889: Married Mary Estella Cockrell
• 1905 - 1908 : Assistant, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.
• 1908: Professor of mathematics, U.S. Navy
• 1930, Jan. 12: Died

From the guide to the Asaph Hall Papers, 1837-1983, (bulk 1860-1920), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)