Angeline Stickney

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Angeline Stickney
New-York Central College
Occupation(s)Mathematician and suffragist
SpouseAsaph Hall

Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall (November 1, 1830 – July 3, 1892) was an American mathematician and suffragist. She was married to astronomer Asaph Hall and collaborated with her husband in searching for the moons of Mars, performing mathematical calculations on the data he collected.

Early life

Angeline Stickney was born to Theophilus Stickney and Electa Cook on November 1, 1830. In 1847, she took three terms of study funded by her cousin, Harriette Downs, at

abolition of slavery
.

Angeline Stickney and Asaph Hall met at Central College. Stickney was two years ahead of Hall. She was his instructor in geometry and German.[4] During their days together as teacher and student, Hall and his classmates would devise questions and problems that they were convinced Stickney could not solve, yet she reportedly never failed to solve them.[5]

Marriage and astronomy

Stickney

Shalersville, Ohio.[4] It was Stickney who communicated with her husband's employer, Captain Gillis, and successfully suggested that he should be made a professor at the Naval Observatory.[5]

Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., after enlargement. Note Angeline on front steps and two Black workers. The house later served as the parsonage and fellowship hall of Alexander Memorial Baptist Church
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Stickney encouraged Hall to continue his search for satellites of Mars when he was ready to give up, and he successfully discovered the moons Phobos and Deimos.[6][1]: 112  However, when she asked for payment equal to a man's salary for her calculations, her husband refused, and Angeline then discontinued her work.[5]

Personal life

1878 portrait of Angeline Stickney Hall.

Stickney Hall

Asaph Hall, Jr., was born on October 6, 1859, and served as director of the Detroit Observatory from 1892 to 1905. Her other sons were named Samuel (second son) and Percival (fourth son); Percival Hall (1872–1953) was the second president of Gallaudet University
from 1910 to 1946 (he himself was not deaf).

She died at

Stickney Crater, is named after her.[6]

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b c Hall, Angelo (1908). An Astronomer's Wife: The Biography of Angeline Hall. Baltimore: Nunn & Company.
  2. ISBN 978-0-521-81599-4
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  3. newspapers.com
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  4. ^
    S2CID 108182480. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 16 December 2005. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Famous wife Hall". maia.usno.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 2012-08-26. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
  6. ^
    ISBN 9780191054211
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  7. ^ "An Astronomer's Wife, by Angelo Hall-A Project Gutenberg eBook". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
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