Angeline Stickney
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Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall (November 1, 1830 – July 3, 1892) was the wife of astronomer Asaph Hall.
She had been Hall's professor of geometry and German at Central College in McGrawville, New York (despite being slightly younger than him), and gave up her career to marry him at Elkhorn, Wisconsin on March 31, 1856.
She encouraged him to continue his search for satellites of Mars when he was ready to give up, and he successfully discovered Phobos and Deimos.
The largest crater on Phobos, Stickney crater, is named after her.
Her third son Angelo Hall wrote her biography; the book is out of print. In all, they had four children; the oldest son, also named Asaph, was born on October 6, 1859 and served as director of Detroit Observatory from 1892 to 1905. Other sons were named Samuel (second son) and Percival (fourth son); Percival Hall (1872–1953) was president of Gallaudet University from 1910 to 1946 (he himself was not deaf).
She died at North Andover, Massachusetts at age 61.
[edit] Books
- Angelo Hall. An Astronomer's Wife: The Biography of Angeline Hall. Baltimore: Nunn & Company, 1908.
