HALLOCK, Charles, author, was born in New York city, March 18, 1834; son of Gerard and Eliza (Allen) Hallock; grandson of the Rev. Moses Hallock of Plainfield, Mass., and a descendant of Peter Hallock, who came from Hingham, England, to New Haven colony in 1640. He was a student at Yale, 1850-51, at Amherst in the class of 1854, 1851-52, and received his A.B. degree in 1871, A.M., 1879. He was assistant editor of the New Haven Register, 1854-56; proprietor and associate editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, of which his father was editor, 1856-62; for several years a commission merchant, banker and editor in St. John and Halifax, N.B.: incorporator and director of the Flushing and Queens county bank in 1873, and founder and proprietor of Forest and Stream, 1873-80. He experimented in sun-flower culture, using the seed for oil; in sheep raising on Indian reservations; in establishing a reservation for sportsmen in Minnesota; in the development of Alaska and Florida, and of special industries in North Carolina; and in various other sanitary and economic schemes. He originated the code of uniform game laws and incorporated with Fayette S. Giles and others the first great American game preserve at Blooming Grove, Pike county, Pa. He is the author of: Recluse of the Oconee (1854); Life of Stonewall Jackson (1863): The Fishing Tourist (1873); Camp Life in Florida (1875); The Sportsman's Gazetteer (1877); Vacation Rambles in Michigan (1877); American Club List and Glossary (1878): Our New Alaska (1886); The Salmon Fisher (1890) and contributions to periodicals. [p.43]

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Halleck, Fitz-Greene - Poet

HALLECK, Fitz-Greene, poet, was born in Guilford, Conn., July 8, 1790; son of Israel and Mary (Eliot) Halleck; and a direct descendant from Peter Halleck, who landed in New Haven colony in 1640 and with other English families crossed the sound to Long Island and settled in Southold; and also a descendant of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. His father was a native of Duchess county, N.Y., and during the American Revolution was a Royalist and served in the British army under Colonel Tarleton. Fitz-Greene received a common school training and was a clerk and book-keeper in the store of Andrew Eliot in Guilford, 1805-11, making his home with his employer. It was during this time that his first poem appeared in print in a New Haven newspaper. He was a clerk and bookkeeper in the banking house of Jacob Barker, in New York city, 1811-31. In 1812 he formed a business partnership with a relative of Mr. Barker as Halleck & Barker, which was short lived by reason of the war, and in 1819 he formed a literary partnership with Joseph Rodman Drake, and the arrangement resulted in the "Croaker" papers, quaint, satirical chronicles of New York life, published anonymously in the New York Evening Post, Drake writing under the name "Croaker" and Halleck, "Croaker, Jr." It was during the latter part of this year that he wrote "Fanny," an amusing satire, that received unqualified praise from John Randolph of Virginia and was enlarged  by fifty stanzas and republished in 1821. He visited Europe in 1822 and in 1827 published anonymously a collection of his poems which included "Burns" and "Alnwick Castle" and the lyric "Marco Bozzaris." He was a clerk for John Jacob Astor, 1832-49; was a trustee of the Astor library, and received from the millionaire at his death an annuity of "£40 a year," supplemented by a gift of $10,000 from his son, William B. Astor, upon which he retired and lived with a maiden sister in the mansion of the Shelley estate at Guilford, Conn., and there wrote "Connecticut," "Lines to Lewis Gaylord Clark," and "Young America." He visited New York city, which had been his residence for nearly fifty years, for the last time in October, 1867. His memory is perpetuated by his poems; by a monument over his grave in Alderbrook cemetery, Guilford, Conn., erected by Bryant, Longfellow, Sumner, Whittier and numerous other friends, the first public monument raised to an American poet; a full length bronze statue,--the first set up in the New World to a poet,--erected in Central Park, New York city, and unveiled in May, 1877, by President Hayes, his cabinet, the general of the army and the leading literary men of the nation; and portraits painted by Jarvis, Morse, Inman, Waldo, Elliott and Hicks. His published works, from which he  received during his life-time $17,500, include: Fanny (1819, new ed., 1821); Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems (1827, 2d ed., 1836, 3d ed., 1845); Fanny and Other Poems (1839); The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck now first collected (8 vols., [p.41] 1847); The Croakers (1860); Young America, a Poem (1865); and The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck (1869). He died at Guilford, Conn., Nov. 19, 1867.

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"HALLOCK, Gerard, journalist, was born in Plainfield, Mass., March 18, 1800; son of the Rev. Moses Halleck. He was graduated at Williams, A.B., 1819, A.M., 1822, and in 1824 established in Boston the Telegraph, which in 1825 was merged into the Recorder. He removed to New York city in 1827, to assist in editing the New York Observer, of which he was part owner, and in 1828 became part owner with David Hale in the Journal of Commerce. In 1828 they obtained advance European news by intercepting incoming vessels at Sandy Hook, and in 1833 secured advance information from congress by an express coach between Philadelphia and New York, with eight relays of horses, and this relay was subsequently extended to Washington and finally resulted in the Halifax express. Although a pro-slavery Democrat, he was a friend of the slaves, believing in emancipation through compensation to owners, and he personally purchased the freedom of upwards of one hundred slaves, whom he transported to Liberia. He contributed $119,000 to erect and maintain a church in New Haven, Conn., and founded the Southern Aid society when the American home mission society withdrew its support from the churches maintained by slave-holders. When the government in 1861 denied the use of the mails to the Journal of Commerce, Mr. Halleck retired from journalism and from all participation in public affairs. He died in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 4, 1866."

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HALLOCK, John, Jr., a Representative from New York; born in Oxford, Orange County, N.Y., in July 1783; member of  the State assembly 1816-1821; member of the State constitutional convention in 1821; elected as a Democrat to the  Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); died in Ridgebury, N.Y., December 6, 1840;  interment in the Hallock family cemetery near Ridgebury, N.Y.

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, Biographies page 1254

The Hallock lineage of John Hallock, Jr. is:

 
1   Abt. 1595 - Peter Hallock
..  +Bef. 1600 - Unknown First Wife
........ 2   Bef. 1624 - 1684 William Hallock
............  +Bef. 1624 - Margaret Howell
.................. 3   Abt. 1660 - Thomas Hallock
......................  +Bef. 1660 - Hope
............................ 4   Abt. 1696 - 1761 Zerubabel Hallock I
................................  +1695 - 1773 Esther Osman
...................................... 5   1722 - 1800 Zerubabel Hallock II
..........................................  +Abt. 1722 - 1806 Elizabeth Swezey
................................................ 6   1751 - 1842 John Hallock, Deacon
.......................................................... 7   1783 - John Hallock, Jr. - Congressman

HALLOCK, Joseph Newton, author and publisher, was born in Franklinville, L.I., N.Y.. July 4, 1834; son of Ezra and Lydia Emily Halleck, and grandson of Daniel Halleck, a Revolutionary soldier, who served as aide-de-camp to General Putnam. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and studied theology there, 1857-60. He was ordained a Congregational clergyman; preached for a short time at Bridgewater, Conn., and declined a call as regular pastor, having decided to devote his life to literary pursuits. He became connected with the Christian at Work, as part owner and editorial assistant to the Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, and in 1880 on the resignation of Dr. Taylor he became sole proprietor and editor-in-chief of the Christian at Work. He also became an incorporator, director and one of the trustees of the State trust company, a director of the Metropolitian realty company and a director and active worker in the Society for the prevention of crime. In 1897 he declined the presidency of Westminster university, Denver, Col., at a salary of $10,000 per annum. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Ursinus college, Pa., in 1896. He took the first prize of fifty dollars offered by the Brooklyn Eagle for an article on "The Gold Standard" in a competition with three hundred writers. He prepared an edition of Tacitus (1860); and is the author of: A History of Southampton (1870); First Impressices in Europe (1878); Twice Across the Continent (1880); The Christiaa Life (1890); Family Worship (1893), and numerous printed sermons and pamphlets.

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Lineage of Joseph Newton Hallock:
 

Direct Descendants of Peter Hallock

 1   Peter Hallock 1595 - 1651
..  +Unknown First Wife 1600 - 1640
.... 2   William Hallock 1624 - 1684
........  +Margaret Howell, ? 1624 - 1698
........... 3   Thomas Hallock 1660 - 1733
...............  +Hope Comstock 1667 - 1733
.................. 4   Zerubabel Hallock I 1696 - 1761
......................  +Esther Osman 1695 - 1773
........................ 5   Zerubabel Hallock II 1722 - 1800
............................  +Elizabeth Swezey 1722 - 1806
............................... 6   Daniel Hallock 1755 - 1844
...................................  +Mary Wells 1758 - 1829
...................................... 7   Ezra Hallock 1797 - 1882
..........................................  +Lydia Emily 1802 - 1898
............................................ 8   Joseph Newton Hallock 1832 - 1913

"FOOTE, Mary Hallock, author, was born in Milton, N.Y., Nov. 19, 1847; daughter of Nathaniel and Anne (Burling) Hallock; granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Townsend) Hallock, and of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hull) Burling of New York, and a descendant of English Quaker families on both the father's and mother's sides.

She was educated at home and at a little seminary for young ladies at Poughkeepsie on the Hudson. She studied art at the school of design for women, Cooper institute, New York, working in black and white with the view to becoming a book illustrator. In 1876 she was married to Arthur D. Foote, mining engineer, and his business made their home in the mining districts of California, Colorado and Idaho. Mrs. Foote became well known, both as an author and as an illustrator, the wild scenes of frontier life and the scenery of the region giving her countless subjects for illustrating and for her novels. Her stories and illustrations appeared at first almost exclusively in the pages of Scribner's magazine, and afterward in the Century and St. Nicholas magazines. She published: The Led-Horse Claim (1883); John Bodewin's Testimony (1886); The Last Assembly Ball (1889); The Chosen Valley (1892); In Exile (1894); Co'ur d'Alene (1894); The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories (1895); Little Fig-tree Stories (1900); and site illustrated the works of many other writers, including Longfellow's Skeleton in Armor and Hanging of the Crane."

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 "Miss MARY HALLOCK, who illustrated 'The Hanging of the Crane' and 'Mabel Martin' so admirably, though her name  was recently changed to Mrs. Foote, will not abandon her beautiful art in her California home. Milton, upon the Hudson,  Miss Halleck's home, had been the inspiration of her pictures, her Quaker relatives appearing in several of her figures; but  still more the scenery she loved has been sketched with rare fidelity and consummate grace."

Daughters of America; or Women of the Century, Chapter X: Women Artists, page 282

"I received the following e-mail from a Hallock cousin:

I was researching my Hallock line and was reading with interest the "notable cousins" page on your homepage... I was pleasantly surprised to see the entry on Mary Ann Hallock Foote- I am pretty certain that the auther Wallace Stegner based the main characters in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Angle of Repose, on Mary Ann Hallock Foote and Arthur D. Foote... The book happens to be one of my favorites, and I had never made the connection before!" B. Wilson
The Hallock lineage of Mary (Hallock) Foote is:
 
1   Peter Hallock 1595 - 1651
..  +Unknown First Wife 1600 - 1640
.... 2   William Hallock 1624 - 1684
........  +Margaret Howell, ? 1624 - 1698
........... 3   John Hallock 1658 - 1737
...............  +Abigail Swezey 1660 - 1737
.................. 4   John Hallock II 1679 - 1765
......................  +Hannah Burgess, ? 1679 -
........................ 5   Edward Hallock 1717 - 1810
............................  +Phebe Clapp 1719 -
............................... 6   James Hallock 1760 -
...................................  +Elizabeth Townsend 1760 -
...................................... 7   Nathaniel Hallock 1802 - 1887
..........................................  +Anne Burling 1802 -
............................................ 8   Mary Ann Hallock-Foote 1847 -

HALLOCK, William, educator, was born in Milton Ulster county, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1857; son of Isaac Sherman and Phebe (Hull) Halleck; grandson of Edward Halleck, and of Edward Hull; and a descendant of Peter Halleck, who settled on Long Island in 1640, and of Edward Hull and John Gifford, who came to New England early in the seventeenth century. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1879, and was a fellow in science at Columbia, 1879-82. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, in 1881, and was an assistant in the physical laboratory there, 1881-82. He was in the employ of the U.S. geological survey as physicist, 1882-91; was professor of physics at the Corcoran scientific school, Washington, 1884-86; professor of chemistry and toxicology in the National college of pharmacy at Washington, 1889-92; assistant in charge of the Astro-physical observatory of the Smithsonian institution, 1891-92, and became adjunct professor of physics at Columbia university in 1892. He received the honorary degree of D.Phar. from the National college of pharmacy in 1892. He was elected a member of the Philosophical society of Washington, a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and of the New York academy of science, and a member of the America physical society. He is author of numerous scientific papers.

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HALLOCK, William Allen, editor, was born in Plainfield, Mass., June 2, 1794; son of the Rev. Moses Halleck, educator (born 1760, died 1887), a graduate of Yale, 1788; a soldier in the war of the American Revolution; pastor of the church at Plainfield, and conductor of a celebrated school where William Cullen Bryant and John Brown the abolitionist were pupils. His uncle, the Rev. Jeremiah Halleck (1758-1826) was pastor of the Congregational church at West Simsbury, Mass., 1785-1826, and received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1788. William Allen was graduated at Williams, A.B., 1819, A.M., 1822, and at Andover theological seminary in 1822. He was agent of the New England tract society, 1822-25, and corresponding secretary of the American tract society, 1825-70. He was responsible for every book, tract and paper published by the society, as every manuscript passed through his hands and was accepted by him before printed. He was editor of The American Messenger, 1830-70, and of The Child's Paper, 1845-70. He received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers [p.44] in 1850. In 1868 he married as his second wife, Mrs. Mary Angeline Lathrop, author of That Sweet Story of Old (1856); Bethlehem and Her Children (1858); Life of the Apostle Paul (1860); Life of Solomon (1868); Fall of Jerusalem (1869); Life of Daniel (1870); and Beasts and Birds (1870). He wrote Life of Harlan Page (1835); Life of the Rev. Moses Hallock (1854); and Life of the Rev. Justin Edwards (1855); besides innumerable tracts. Mrs. H. C. Knight prepared Memorial of the Rev. William A. Hallock, D.D. (1882). He died in New York city, Oct. 2, 1880.

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Note that I have arrived at the conclusion that Abigail Hallock must be removed as the wife of Caleb Horton, as there is no evidence they were man and wife, least of all parents of Caleb, Jr. That is the line that is in Ancestors of American Presidents, which I now reject.

However, there is another line of descent from Peter Hallock to President Harrison that appears to be bonafide - and is not in Ancestors of American Presidents. This connection is based on a 1802 letter written by John Cleves Symmes (see his place in the line of descent below), to his daughter, Anna: "My grandmother Cleves' grandfather Halliock lived on the land now owned by Mr. Lehomedieu, still called Halliock's Neck.. The pits that were his cellars are still very visible between Mr. Lehomedieu's house and the mouth of the town-creek in Southold Long Island..." (1992 Addendum to A Hallock Genealogy of 1928, Hallock Family Association, Pg iii.) Note the "grandmother Cleves" is Mary Hallock in generation 4 below, and the grandfather Halliock he is referring to is William Hallock, the probable immigrant Hallock ancestor. This is that line of descent:
 

 
 1   [Peter?] Hallock 1595 - 1651
..  +Unknown First Wife 1600 - 1640

Generation 1 given out of respect to tradition. There is no evidence that a Peter Hallock ever existed, or, if he did, that he was ever in America.

.... 2   William Hallock 1620 - 1684
........  +Margaret [Howell?] 1624 - 1707
........... 3   William Hallock 1667 - 1736
...........  *2nd Wife of William Hallock:
...............  +Mary (___) 1667 - 1752
.................. 4   Mary Hallock 1697 - 1784
......................  +John Cleves 1686 - 1760
........................ 5   Mary Cleves 1714 - 1746
............................  +Timothy Symmes, Jr. 1714 - 1756
............................... 6   John Cleves Symmes 1742 - 1814
...................................  +Anna Tuthill 1741 - 1776
...................................... 7   Anna Tuthill Symmes 1775 - 1864
..........................................  +William Henry Harrison, President 1773 - 1841
............................................ 8   John Scott Harrison 1804 - 1878
................................................  +Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin 1810 - 1850
................................................... 9   Benjamin Harrison, President 1833 - 1901

Note that his grandfather, President William Henry Harrison, was not a Hallock, as President Benjamin Harrison's Hallock blood-line comes from his grandmother - thus we are related to one Harrison president, but not the other.

Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the US, was great grandson of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791), Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia. He was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States.

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