Tehama-Sacramento-Sutter County CA Archives Biographies.....Hall, William Robert 1853 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 21, 2007, 10:29 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) WILLIAM ROBERT HALL, Clerk of Tehama County, California, was born in Sacramento city on October 11, 1853. The ancestors of the family on the father's side were Scotch people, who settled in North Carolina at an early period in the history of this country. His mother's parents were of German extraction, and settled in Virginia in 1818. His father, Andrew Lovelace Hall, is a native of Kentucky, born March 6, 1824, and emigrated to California in 1850, settling below Sacramento city in what is now called Hall's Basin, and engaged in farming. In those days all kinds of farm products found a ready market in the mining localities, and good success crowned his efforts until the winter of 1851-'52, when he, among many others, went with the tide. The great flood of that year swept away everything he had; so, not meeting with the success that was anticipated, like all other Kentuckians-being a great lover of horses-moved to Sutter County, near the Marysville Buttes, and engaged in raising running-horses, which was more profitable to him than farming in the tule lands. In the summer of 1852 he met Miss Amanda M. E. Garr, daughter of Mark F. Garr, the Sheriff of Sutter County (who came across the plains in 1849 from the State of Virginia), and after a courtship of several months the couple were married. Mr. Hall, the subject of this sketch, is the oldest of eleven children, seven of whom are still living in Tehama County. He was educated at the Pierce Christian College, Colusa County, and also took a complete course in Heald's Business College, San Francisco. In 1876 he engaged in farming with his father, which he continued for a number of years in Tehama County, raising fruits and grain. In 1886 he was nominated for County Clerk by the Democratic County Convention, but in the election was beaten by 142 votes. In 1888 he received a renomination by acclamation and was elected by fifty-six majority. In 1890 he received the nomination for the same office without opposition, and was elected by the flattering majority of 881. The office duties include those of Clerk, Auditor and Recorder. Mr. Hall is a man of good business ability, and believes in filling an office when elected to do so, and makes an officer worthy of the commendation of all tax-payers, Republicans and Democrats alike. While his official duties call him away from his farm, his brothers are cultivating his lands with theirs. Mr. Hall was united in marriage on the 31st day of December, 1889, to Miss Agnes Isabel Duncan, a native of Iowa, daughter of William Duncan, of Red Bluff. She came to California with her parents in 1875, and completed an unfinished education in the State Normal School, at San Jose, California, and engaged in teaching school in Tehama County. In 1884 she was offered the position of second assistant in the Red Bluff High School, and filled that position until she was married to Mr. Hall. She is a member of the Christian Church, which is also attended by her husband. Mr. Hall is a member of the I. O. O. F., N. S. G. W., and the Masonic lodges at Red Bluff. An ardent lover of California and her institutions, he is ever ready to aid in any enterprise that will benefit the State or the county of his choice. Additional Comments: Extracted from Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day. "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendents." – Macauley. CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1891. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/tehama/bios/hall768gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb