Abstract
1890-1973; Mohall, North Dakota, historian
Administrative/Biographical History
Luella Jemima Hall was born October 18, 1890, the daughter of Martin O. Hall. Martin was born October 30, 1853, in Norway and founded Mohall, North Dakota, in 1901. Luella attended the University of North Dakota, earning a B.A. in 1917 and a M.A. in 1919. Her master’s thesis was titled “County Boundaries in North Dakota, 1849-1916.” She was a charter member of the Upsilon Chapter of Delta Zeta, a women’s fraternity installed at UND in 1919. She joined the UND faculty, and served as advisor to Delta Zeta. In about 1923, she wrote “The Early History of Mohall, North Dakota.” M.O. Hall became ill and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he died January 12, 1925. By 1925, Luella also had moved to California and was teaching at Lodi. Luella earned a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University in 1937. Her dissertation was “The United States and the Moroccan Problem.” In 1937, she accepted a position at Hartnell Junior College (Salinas, California), where she served as a professor of Geography and History until 1960. She was an expert on U.S.-Morocco relations, but primarily taught courses concerning Latin America, international relations, and American Indians. She revised her dissertation, which was published as The United States and Morocco, 1776-1956 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1971). She died June 15, 1973.
