Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: MT1C-W19
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 134675627
• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Medford - DNA Family 070
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
• Group: Mayflower - Edward Fuller
• Group: Mayflower - John Howland & Elizabeth Tilley
• Group: Mayflower - John Tilley & Joan Hurst
• 1880 Census: 11 Jun 1880, Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Brainerd_Hall

Julia was born on November 11, 1859, to Reverend Heman Bassett Hall (1823-1911) and his wife Sophronia Brooks Hall (1827-1885), missionaries in Jamaica. In 1860, the family returned to the United States. Julia's younger brother, Charles Martin Hall, was born in 1863 in Thompson, Geauga County, Ohio. In 1873, the family moved to Oberlin, Ohio, where Heman Hall and Sophronia Brooks had attended Oberlin College.

Julia was one of eight children. With the exception of a brother (Lewis Albert) who died young, all obtained degrees from Oberlin College. Her eldest brother, George Edward Hall (February 23, 1851, Jamaica - August 29, 1921, Pasadena, CA) became a minister. Her older sister Ellen Julia Hall-Kinsey (Mrs. George M. Kinsey, 1852 - May 17, 1882) studied medicine at the University of Wooster (she was a senior in the class of 1881) and in Vienna, Austria. Her sister Emily Brooks Hall and Emily's husband Martin Luther Stimson (1857 - 1943) became missionaries in China.

Julia Brainerd Hall is listed as a student in the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in the 1876– 77 and 1877-78 catalogues. She is listed as a second year student in the "Literary" course at Oberlin as of 1878, and graduated in the Literary course in 1881: The "Literary" course had replaced the "Ladies" course as of July 30, 1875. Such educational tracking was usual for women attending Oberlin at the time. One of the classes she took was chemistry, which was taught by William Kedzie in 1879-1880 for only one term prior to his unexpected death, rather than the usual two terms.

Some time before her invalid mother's death in 1885, Julia took over running the household and raising her two younger sisters, Edith May Hall (later Mrs. George H. Seymour, 1865-1937) and Louie Alice Hall (1870 - 1944).
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From FindaGrave:

Julia studied chemistry at Oberlin College. Working in a woodshed behind their family home at 64 East College Street in Oberlin OH, Julia and her brother Charles Martin Hall discovered a method to electrolytically extract aluminum from alumina in February 1886. Her brother received a patent for the process and founded what later became the Aluminum Company of America, now Alcoa.

When Julia died she was living in Rochester, NY with her sister Louie. In 1937 as a memorial to her sister, Louie donated $200,000 to Highland Hospital for the construction of the Hall Memorial Building, solely to care for maternity patients.

Gravesite Details
Cremated, ashes buried.

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MT1C-W19

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134675627

Group:
Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Medford, Massachusetts

Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Group:
Descendants of Nicholas Taft of Stepney, several of whose children were early immigrants to Massachusetts.

Group:
Descendant of Edward Fuller and wife of the Mayflower

Group:
Descendant of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley of the Mayflower

Group:
Descendant of John Tilley and Joan (Hurst) Rogers of the Mayflower

1880 Census:
ED 181, p. 32
34 East College Street
Hall, Herman B   W  M  57   Head  Md    Minister Gospel    VT          VT  VT
---, Sophronia     W  F  52   Wife   Md   Keeping House     OH         CT  CT
---, Ellen J          W  F  26   Dau    S     Student                Jamaica  VT  OH
---, Emily B         W  F  22   Dau    S     Student                Jamaica  VT  OH
---, Julia B          W  F  20   Dau    S     Student                Jamaica  VT  OH
---, Charles M     W  M  16   Son    S     Student                OH          VT  OH
---, Edith M         W  F  14   Dau    S     at school              OH          VT  OH
---, Louisa A       W  F  10   Dau    S     at school              OH          VT  OH