HALLAM
HALLECK
He was seen at his best in tlie nep:ro character
of "Mungo."" in the play of the "Padlock."
After his stepfather retired from the manage-
ment of the American company, Lewis assumed
the management and in connection with John
Henry continued to tour America. At this time
it was the custom for each of the principal actors
to have benefit nights, and tickets for these
benefits were purchased directly from the actor
for whose benefit the performance was to be
given at his home or lodgings, and in order to
secure seats the ticket purchasers were instructed
to send servants or messengers to the theatre
late in the afternoon and occupy the seats until
claimed by the purchasers. In 1797 he sold out
his half interest in the company to William Dun-
lap, and with Mrs. Hallam continued on salary.
This Mrs. Hallam was his second wife, a Miss
Tuke, whom he had married in 1791. He made
his last appearance in New York city, June 6,
1806. He died in Philadelphia. Pa., Nov. 1, 1808.
HALLAM, Robert Alexander, clergyman, was born in New London, Conn , Sept. 30, 1807. He was graduated at Yale A.B. 1827, A.M. 1830; and from the General theological seminary in 1833. He was ordained a deacon bj- Bishop Brownell in 1832, and a priest in 1833, and was rector of St. Andrew's church, Meriden, Conn., 1833-34, and of St. James's church, New London, Conn., 1835- 77. He was a member of the standing committee of the diocese of Connecticut, 1846-72; a delegate to the general convention, 18.j0-68; a curator of Trinity college, 1843-77, and a fellow, 1855-58. He received the honorary- degree of A.M. from Trinity in 1845 and that of S.T.D. in 1853. He delivered popular courses of lectures in his church on "The Morning Prater," and on "Moses," which were published in book form. He is also the author of Sketches of Travel in Europe (1869); Soverehnis of Jiidah (ISll) ; Annals of St. James's Church, Xew London ; and contribu- tions to church periodicals. He died in New London, Conn.. .Jan. 4, 1877.
HALLECK, Fitz-Qreene, 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 cros.sed 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., a.id 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 book-
keeper 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 ha formed
a literary partnership
with Joseph Rodman
Drake, and the ar-
rangement resulted
in the " Croaker "
papers, quaint, satir-
ical chronicles of
New York life, pub-
lished anonymously
in the New York
Evening Post, Drake
writing under the
name "Croaker" and
Halleck, " Croaker,
Jr." It was dur-
ing the latter part of this year that he wrote
"Fanny," an amusing satire, that received un-
qualified praise from John Randolph of Vir-
ginia and was enlarged by fifty stanzas and re-
published in 1821. He visited Europe in 1822 and
in 1827 published anonj^mously 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 tru.stee of the Astor librarj", 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 " Yoxmg America."
He visited New York city, which had been his
residence for nearh* fifty j'ears, 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 monu-
ment 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 im veiled in May, 1877, by President
Hayes, his cal>inet, the general of the army and the
leading literary men of the nation ; and portraits
painted by Jarvis, Mor.se, Inman, Waldo, Elliott
and Hicks. His published works, from which
he received during his lifetime §17,500, include:
FrtJtH?/ (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.,
