Template:Did you know nominations/William Phillips Hall
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:04, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
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William Phillips Hall
- ... that William Phillips Hall was a railroad transportation executive known as the "business millionaire evangelist"? Source:
- Source 1 - William Phillips Hall. 73, of Greenwich, founder of a railway signal manufacturing company and known as the "business millionaire evangelist" because of his avocation as a lay preacher, died last night in the Masonic Home here.
- Source 2 - William P. Hall, Millionaire Evangelitt, Wallingford, Conn, Aug.- 15. William Phillips Hall, 73, of Greenwich, founder of a railway signal manufacturing company and known as the "business millionaire evangelist" because of his avocation as a lay preacher, died last night in the Masonic Home here. An intimate friend of the evangelist, Dwight Moody. Hall became an evangelist himself.
- Source 3 - W. P HALL. dies; rich evangelist; Wallingford, Conn., Aug. 18— Hall, 73, of Greenwich, founder of a railway signal manufacturing company and known as the "business millionaire evangelist," died in Masonic home here. He and his father, Thomas Shepard Hall, invented many block and electrical railway signals. In 1889, he founded the Hall Signal Company.
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Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 20:26, 1 May 2022 (UTC).
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I am approving this, but two of the Newspapers.com sources say that they are free to read although the links weren't included. I'm guessing that it's just an accidental oversight. SL93 (talk) 06:07, 19 May 2022 (UTC)