G. Stanley HallGranville American psychologist and educator Stanley Hall (February 1, 1846 – April 24, 1924) was a trailblazer who graduated from Harvard College with the nation's first psychology degree in the nineteenth century. He was particularly interested in he evolution of the human life span and these ideas. Hall served as the first president of both Clark University and the American Psychological Association. Hall was raised on a farm by his parents, Granville Bascom Hall, a former member of the Massachusetts assembly, and Abigail Beals, a former student of the Albany Female Seminary who later became a teacher. Hall was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts. He began his career by instructing English and philosophy at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, before moving on to Williams College in Massachusetts to instruct philosophical history. Hall has two marriages. Cornelia Fisher served as his first wife. Julia Fisher Hall was born on May 30, 1882, and Robert Granville Hall was born on February 7, 1881. They were married in September 1879 and had two kids together. Julia and Cornelia asphyxiated unintentionally and died in 1890. Robert's father reared him starting at age four. On April 24, 1924, Hall passed away in Worcester, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less