Lyman Hall
Lyman Hall was the second of the three Georgians that signed the Declaration of Independence. He was born on April 12, 1724, in Wallingford, Connecticut. Lyman Hall had abandoned his quest for medicine when he graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1747. Instead, he kept on being elected to Congress until 1780. In 1790, he moved to Burke County, where he purchased Shell Bluff Plantation. He was an official representative of the State of Georgia. After the Revolutionary War, he resumed his Medical Practice in Savannah, Georgia. He died here on October 19, 1790. He was 66 years old. Hall County is named after him.