Author: Halling, Solomon
Biography:
HALLING, Solomon (1755-1813: Hollis)
There is some disagreement among biographers as to whether he was Danish-born or a native of Pennsylvania: the most recent authorities say the latter. Certainly he was of Danish descent. He served as a senior surgeon for a North Carolina regiment in the Revolutionary War and was granted a land warrant for 450 acres in recompense after he left the army. About 1784 he established a medical practice at New Bern NC, where he also taught in the academy and joined a masonic lodge. He married twice (or perhaps three times) and had two daughters. In 1792 he was ordained in the Episcopal Church and served congregations first in New Bern, then in Wilmington NC (where he was also Principal of the academy), and finally in Georgetown SC, where his parish was Prince George Winyah. His translation of Klopstock is his only significant publication. (Lawrence F. Brewster, "Solomon Halling," Dictionary of North Carolina Biography Vol. 3 [1988]; Marshall DeLancey Haywood, "Solomon Halling," Biographical History of North Carolina Vol. 7 [1908]) HJ