Sonoma-San Francisco-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Hall, Henry 1813 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Hall, Henry. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, is
a native of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and born February 7, 1813, being the sixth
child and eldest son of Parker and Polly Hall, who belonged to the Society of
Friends, better known as Quakers. At the time Mr. Hall, Sr., was married he was
a farmer, and his father gave him sixty acres of poor land, which afterwards, by
a high state of cultivation on the part of its owner, became valuable. On this
farm was the subject of this sketch reared till eighteen years old, when he
determined to learn a trade. After driving an ox-team for his father for a time,
he was rewarded with eighteen cents, and at once proceeded to Bristol, Rhode
Island, and bound himself to George H. Reynolds, as an apprentice to the
blacksmith's trade till twenty-one years old, and to receive twenty-five dollars
per year, his mother furnishing him with sufficient under-clothing during the
time. At the expiration of his service he had fourteen dollars and eighty cents
to his credit, and was employed for three months by Mr. Reynolds, after which he
returned to his home, and was engaged with his father on the farm for three more
months, then again hired by Reynolds for eight months, at Bristol, and five
months at New London, Conn., after which he purchased the blacksmith shop of his
employer, and conducted the business till December, 1841, when he returned to
Bristol with his family. Here he joined partnership with J. N. Miller, which
continued till April, 1844. Once more we find Mr. Hall in New London, doing
business, till March, 1850, and on the 11th of the month took passage on the
ship "Corea," Capt. Charles Prentice, commanding, and sailed from New London
harbor via Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco August 27th of that year. As Mr.
Hall owned a thirty-second interest in the cargo, he was necessarily detained,
and remained with the ship three months after she landed. In December following,
he boarded the old "Hartford " and proceeded to Sacramento city, and from there
to the Coloma mines at Pilot Hill. After mining here for three months he was one
of a company of ten men who set out for the north fork of the American river,
where they prosecuted mining for nine months, when Mr. Hall lay down his pick
and shovel, bid adieu to the mines, and hied himself to San Francisco, where he
"struck the iron while it was hot," and succeeded, in one year's hard toil, in
hammering out over the anvil eighteen hundred dollars. In February, 1853, he
came to this county and settled on his present estate, located in Analy
township, about one-half mile from Bloomfield, where he resided alone for three
years, when he returned East, and brought back with him his eldest son, W. P. In
April, 1859, he again repaired to his Eastern home, and in July following
returned with his wife and family to this county. Mr. Hall is one of Sonoma's
well-to-do farmers, and a more quiet and charitable man is not to be found, as
all can testify who know him. He married, April 2, 183S, Miss Hannah N. Swan,
daughter of Capt. Thomas Swan, a native of Bristol, Rhode Island. She was born
October 23, 1815. William P., born May 13, 1839; Mary E., born February 1, 1842;
Charles T., born December 17, 1843; Benjamin P., born February 20, 1846, and
died April 3, 1846; Maggie C, born May 20, 1848; Henry M., born August 30, 1850,
are the names and births of their children.

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.



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in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

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