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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hall, Frank Stevens
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Description area
Dates of existence
1878-1940
History
Frank Stevens Hall was an American naturalist and museum curator. From 1902 to 1909, he was at the University of Michigan, first as a student and later as an assistant in the University Museum, preparing himself for what he had selected as his lifework, museum curatorship. He became a pivotal figure in early 20th-century Pacific Northwest natural history. In 1909, Mr. Hall was appointed curator of the Washington State Museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He was one of the founders of the Pacific Northwest Bird and Mammal Society and served as its President from 1920 to 1937. He was instrumental in establishing and editing The Murrelet, the society’s academic journal. In 1935, he became Director of the Spokane Public Museum of the Eastern Washington State Historical Association. In 1934, Mr. Hall was involved in a serious automobile accident near Vancouver, B.C., from which he never fully recovered. Returning to Spokane from a trip to Yellowstone Park, he became ill and died on the train on July 8, 1940.