charles francis hall

[GrokHaw]

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

[Williamorect]

Charles Francis Hall was an American Arctic explorer. Little is known of Halls early life. He was born in the state of Vermont, but while he was still a child his family moved to Rochester, New Hampshire, where, as a boy, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. In the 1840s he married and drifted westward, arriving in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849. There he went into business making seals and engraving plates, and later began to publish a two small newspapers, The Cincinnati Occasional and The Daily Press.