San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Hall, Mrs. Lillian M. 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages  120  - 121
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     MRS. LILLIAN M. HALL is one of the resourceful and popular executives in 
connection with California governmental and sociological affairs, and is 
giving admirable administration as manager of the California State Employment 
Bureau for Women, with executive offices in the Pacific Building in the City 
of San Francisco. Mrs. Hall has been prominently concerned with business 
affairs, with civic and cultural movements in her home city, and is one of the 
well known and influential women of San Francisco, where her circle of friends 
is coincident with that of her acquaintances.

     Mrs. Hall was born in San Francisco, a daughter of Bernard and Katherine 
(Lavin) Green, who came to California and established the family home in San 
Francisco. Here she was afforded the advantages of the Emerson Public School, 
later she attended the Spring Valley school, and thereafter she was a student 
in representative private schools, in one of which she eventually graduated, 
besides which she thereafter took a thorough course in Healds Business 
College. As a young woman she was united in marriage to James L. Hall, a 
prominent mining man at Dawson, Alaska. The death of Mr. Hall occurred in 
1918, and his widow not only assumed active charge of all his mining interests 
but also made the best of provisions in the rearing of four children, two of 
whom were her nieces and the other two of whom were adopted daughters. To 
these children, who received from her true maternal solicitude, she provided 
collegiate advantages and otherwise well fortified them for the 
responsibilities of life.

     In 1917 California established its free employment bureau, and seven 
months later Mrs. Hall was appointed manager of its department for women, a 
position of which she has continued the efficient and popular incumbent and in 
which she has been able to render a civic and sociological service and 
administration of inestimable value. She has been active also in club work and 
in general cultural and social affairs in her home community. She was in 
charge of the mayor's relief work in San Francisco during the entire period of 
the influenza epidemic that visited the entire nation in the World war period. 
She is a valued member of the Women's City Club, the Business and Professional 
Women's Clubs, the Western Women's Club, the National Council of Catholic 
Women, the Women's Safety League, the Guild for Crippled Children, the San 
Francisco Women's Center, the National League of Women's Service, the 
Republican Women's Federation of California, the San Francisco Real Estate 
Board, the Republican Women's City Club, the Catholic Club in her home city, 
and the Native Daughters of the Golden West. Mrs. Hall rendered loyal and 
effective volunteer service of important order in connection with California 
patriotic activities in the World war period, and in this connection devoted a 
year to uncompensated activity in behalf of the various departments of women's 
war service of communal order. It is to he noted that she has the distinction 
of being a member of the woman's auxiliary of Port Townsend (Washington) Lodge 
No. 317, B. P. O. E.

     Mrs. Hall is one of the gracious and popular women who are doing their 
share of constructive service in California affairs, and it is a matter of 
satisfaction to her that through the medium of the state institution with 
which she is identified in managerial capacity she has been able to render 
great aid and encouragement to many women who have sought and needed 
employment.

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