Elmer Stephen Hall[citation needed] was born on September 12, 1866, in New London, Wisconsin.
[1] Hall worked as a railway car checker, postal clerk and letter carrier.
[2][citation needed] Hall was secretary of the commercial club, forerunner of the Association of Commerce.
[2] He was a self-taught astronomer and published Solution of Lunar Motion by Diagram (with Harmonic Table) in 1935 and Gyro-static Mechanics of Earth's Moons System in 1944.
[1] Hall died on May 22, 1952, at the Hilltop Nursing Home on West Mason Street in Green Bay.