Dolores County CO Archives Biographies.....Hall, James  December 28, 1853 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Inured from his youth to the wild life of the plains and engaged in the


inspiring although dangerous occupation of a range rider, and living thereafter


on the verge of civilization for a number of years, James Hall, of Rico, is a


typical pioneer and well versed in all the lore of the craft.  He is a pioneer


of 1878 in Colorado, and was born in Alabama on December 28, 1853.  His parents,


James M. and Sarah T. (Goble) Hall, were natives of Ireland and Pennsylvania,


respectively, and when their son James was quite young moved to Pennsylvania


from their southern home.  When he was sixteen he left the paternal roof tree


and made his way to Texas.  There he was employed in riding the range and


hunting buffalo until 1878, when he came to Colorado and turned his attention to


mining.  The next year he moved to Rico and started an industry in the liquor


business in which he has since been actively engaged, building up a large trade


and catering to a high class of patrons.  He experienced all the dangers and


suffered all the hardships of frontier life, seeing every phase of it from time


to time, living now and then on the fat of the land and anon eking out a scanty


subsistence on the gingerly provision of nature in her more ungenerous


localities and moods.  He was often confronted with savage fury and treachery


too, and was obliged to put all his self-reliance and woodcraft in play at times


to outwit them and escape their venom.  He was a member of the party that


pursued and exterminated the band that killed Dick May and at Thurman, this


state, at Castle valley they had a hot fight with a superior force, and of their


nineteen men ten were killed and three wounded, while thirty-two of the Indians


bit the dust.  Here they were surrounded and in momentary danger of violent


deaths.  But they managed to escape in the night.  In this contest Mr. Hall was


wounded in three places.  In addition to his mercantile establishment he has


interests in a number of valuable mines.  He belongs to the Odd Fellows and the


Elks.  He was married in Pennsylvania on January 20, 1893, to Miss Ida M.


Thompson, a native of that state.  They are the parents of two children, Warden


and Rae.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905




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