Edwin Oscar Hall (1810–1883) was a businessman who was appointed

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, serving in that capacity for one year. He was subsequently appointed

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of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 10, 1873, by King

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. After Lunalilo's death, he remained in the position until

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replaced him on February 17, 1874 with Hermann A. Widemann.

Hawaii missionary

Born in 1810 at Walpole, New Hampshire, Edwin Hall was educated at Canandaigua Academy, New York, and trained for the printing trade at Detroit and New York City. Hall and his wife Sarah Lyons Williams were part of the Seventh Company of missionaries sent to the

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by the

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. On December 5, 1834, one month after their marriage, the couple sailed out of Boston for Hawaii, then known as the "Sandwich Islands", on the merchant ship ''Hellespont'', docking in Honolulu Harbor on June 6, 1835. Also on board were bookbinder Henry Dimond and his wife, school teachers Lydia Brown and Elizabeth M. Hitchcock, and missionary Rev.

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and his wife. Hall, Dimond and the teachers were

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missionaries, rather than ordained ministers. Hitchcock was a sister to missionary Rev.

Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (March 13, 1800 – August 25, 1855) was an early Protestant missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii from the United States. With his three sons, he and his wife started a family that would influence Hawaii's history. He ...

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. On their June 6,1835 arrival, the Halls were stationed in Honolulu.

Businessman

After serving with the mission board for 15 years, Hall took over the editorial duties of the secular Honolulu newspaper ''

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''. He soon formed his own mercantile business.

Cabinet officer

appointed Hall as temporary

in 1849, serving a one-year period inbetween two periods of service by

Gerrit P. Judd Gerrit Parmele Judd (April 23, 1803 – July 12, 1873) was an American physician and missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii who later renounced his American citizenship and became a trusted advisor and cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III. He ...

. In 1873, Hall was appointed

by King

. Upon Lunalilo's death, King

formed his own cabinet, and Hall was replaced by Hermann A. Widemann on February 17, 1874.

Death

Hall and his first wife had four children. On her death, he married Mary Lyon Dame in 1878 in Pennsylvania. Hall died September 19, 1883 in Falmouth, Maine but was buried in Honolulu.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, E. O. 1810 births 1883 deaths Hawaiian Kingdom politicians Hawaiian Kingdom Interior Ministers Hawaiian Kingdom Finance Ministers