Lassen-Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Hall, Wright P. 1834 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

WRIGHT P. HALL.—Since March, 1874, Mr. Hall has held the office of county clerk,
and is one of the most popular men in the county, receiving his office at the
hands of the republican party. He was born in Andover, Oxford county, Maine,
April 26, 1834. He lived in Peru, in that county, until ten years of age, and
then the family removed to Waltham, Massachusetts. His father worked at
carpentering for twenty-five years, and then in the Newton Chemical
Manufacturing Co.'s works about twenty-five years. At the age of seventeen,
Wright P. left school and learned the hatter's trade, becoming a partner in
three years in a firm manufacturing and dealing in hats and furnishing goods. He
came to California in 1858, arriving in San Francisco, via Panama, in April. He
mined at Howland flat, Sierra county, and in Plumas county until June, 1860. He
then came to Honey Lake valley and bought a ranch of 600 acres, six and one-half
miles east of Susanville, where he resided until 1872, excepting three years
spent in the lumber and hotel business at Crystal Peak, Nevada. Since 1872, when
he sold. his ranch, he has resided in Susanville; and since March, 1874, has
been county clerk. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., F. & A. M., and A. O. U.
W. lodges at Susanville. He owns a stock and dairy ranch twelve miles north-west
of the town. October 11, 1860, he married Miss Mary J. Stickney, born in
Whitingham, Vermont, July 4, 1833. They have four children: Charles E., born
July 21, 1861; Mary E., June 3, 1864; Lewis D., August 31, 1868; Fred D.,
September 6, 1871. Mr. Hall first came here with his brother Samuel R. The next
year Davis C., and a year later W. H., came. Davis C. died in Quincy, Plumas
county, California.



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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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