# Charles Francis Hall

> American arctic explorer (1821–1871)

**Wikidata**: [Q940601](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940601)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Hall)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/charles-francis-hall

## Summary

Charles Francis Hall was born on January 1, 1821, in Rochester [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. He held citizenship in the United States  and worked as an arctic explorer, engraver, newspaper proprietor, blacksmith, writer, and cartographer [15].He died on November 8, 1871, at Thank God Harbor [1][4][5][9][10][16][15]. The cause of his death was arsenic poisoning .


## References

1. [Geographicus Rare Antique Maps biographical dictionary of cartographers](https://www.geographicus.com/P/RareMaps/cfhall)
2. [Source](https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentur26unkngoog/page/n39/mode/1up)
3. BnF authorities
4. Integrated Authority File
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7. An Inquest on the Death of Charles Francis Hall
8. Open Library
9. Encyclopædia Britannica Online
10. SNAC
11. Biodiversity Heritage Library
12. Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
13. Hall, Charles Francis (1821-1871), Arctic explorer
14. Dictionary of Canadian Biography
15. Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
16. Alvin
17. NUKAT
18. MAK
19. Trove
20. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
21. Virtual International Authority File
22. [Source](http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=5018)
23. [Source](http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic35-3-442.pdf)
24. Regional Database of the Central Bohemian Research Library in Kladno