. Baltimore : its history and its people . ctuary of the Maryland Life Insurance Company of Balti-more, a position which he held for thirty-three years, when, having beenadmitted to the bar, he resigned in order to engage in general practice as alawyer and consulting actuary. Since 1878 Mr. Hall has been actuary forthe Insurance Department of Maryland, and he is one of the founders ofthe Actuarial Society of America, organized in New York in 1889. Forsome years he was editor of its Transactions. Mr. Hall studied law at the University of Maryland, from which hegraduated with the degree of Bache
. Baltimore : its history and its people . ctuary of the Maryland Life Insurance Company of Balti-more, a position which he held for thirty-three years, when, having beenadmitted to the bar, he resigned in order to engage in general practice as alawyer and consulting actuary. Since 1878 Mr. Hall has been actuary forthe Insurance Department of Maryland, and he is one of the founders ofthe Actuarial Society of America, organized in New York in 1889. Forsome years he was editor of its Transactions. Mr. Hall studied law at the University of Maryland, from which hegraduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and in 1902, upon the occa-sion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University, inwhich he had been a post-graduate student, he received from that universitythe degree of Master of Arts. For three years, from 1905 to 1907, he waslecturer in the Department of Political Economy of the same universityupon the theory and practice of insurance. For a number of years Mr. Hall took an active interest in the military. HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 639 establishment of the State of Maryland, from which he retired in 1892,being at that time quartermaster on the staff of Brigadier-General StewartBrown, with the rank of major. Interested also in civic matters, it waschiefly through his efforts that a resolution was adopted by the City Councilof Baltimore in 1893 providing for a commission to consider the establish-ment of a complete sewerage system for the city. Work upon the construc-tion of such a system, which is probably the greatest engineering work ofthe kind ever undertaken, was finally begun in October, 1906, under thedirection of Mr. Calvin W. Hendrick as chief engineer. In the colonial, or rather provincial, history of Maryland, Mr. Hallfound an interesting field of study, and it was as the result of his investiga-tions that in 1876 the beautiful design of the great seal in use in the Provinceof Maryland from 1648 was restored to the great seal of the State.
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