Ida County IA Archives Biographies.....Hall, Robert 1864 - 1923
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Author: Iowa Its History and Tradition

IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926
 
ROBERT HALL

In the death of Robert Hall, which occurred February 1, 1923, there was  
removed another of those prominent citizens of Ida county who made their way by  
force of their own merit and industry from small beginnings to definite 
success,  and his memory will long be revered and his influence for good felt in
this  locality, for he belonged to that class of worthy men who leave behind
much that  is deathless.

Mr. Hall was a native of Ireland, born on the 10th of August, 1864, and  was 
a son of John and Eliza (Dawson) Hall, bott of whom also were natives of  that 
country.  In boyhood he was brought to the United States, the family  
settling in Ida county, where he was reared to the life of a farmer, and where 
he secured his education in the public schools.  He always followed the 
vocation of farming and in the course of time prosperity crowned his efforts, 
until he was regarded as one of the substantial and progressive farmers of his  
community.  Idleness was foreign to his nature and he did well whatever he  
undertook, so that the success which came to him was well merited.

On November 12, 1890, Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Miss Margaret  Jane 
Anderson, daughter of James and Mary (Fair) Anderson.  Mr. Anderson  came to 
Ida county in an early day and acquired a fine farm in Silver Creek  township.  
Both parents are now deceased, the mother passing away in April,  1917.  They 
had four children, as follows:  Margaret Jane, widow of  the subject of this 
memoir; Mary Eliza, who is the wife of Robert Lipton, of Ida  Grove; William 
J., of Ida Grove; and Thomas, deceased.  To Mr. and Mrs.  Hall were born two 
children, namely:  Mary Eliza, who became the wife of  Ulus Hall, of Ida Grove 
and who died in February, 1922, leaving one child, Ulus  Robert, who now makes 
his home with his grandmother; and Beulah Margaret, who is  the wife of George 
S. Witters, of Ida Grove.

Mr. Hall was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to  which 
he gave liberal support, as he did to all worthy benevolent and charitable  
enterprises.  He was a man of generous and kindly impulses, cordial and  
friendly in his social relations and public-spirited in his support of all  
movements for the betterment of the community.  Throughout the range of his  
acquaintance he enjoyed a loyal and true friendship, and his death was regarded
 as a deep and irreparable loss to the locality which had been honored by his  
residence.

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