Ada County ID Archives Biographies.....Hall, John H. 1860 - 1919
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

    JOHN H. HALL became a leading, successful and representative farmer of Ada
county, living near Eagle. He was born near Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1860 and
there acquired his early education. When twenty-one years of age he arrived in
Idaho and while en route was employed for a time in the mines of Colorado. He
made the latter part of his journey to Idaho on foot, walking from the eastern
portion of the state to Boise. He turned his attention to farming in the Boise
valley and in 1894 purchased the site of the present family home, then known as
the Willis place. It was all covered with sagebrush, not a furrow having been
turned nor an improvement made upon the land. It was necessary to clear the
tract of brush, and Mr. Hall not only performed that task upon his own place but
also grubbed sagebrush from the farm of Mr. Willis in order to help pay for the
land which he had purchased from Mr. Willis. At that period there were only
three or four farms between Eagle and Boise. Mr. Hall's property comprised forty
acres, eleven of which has been planted to prunes, while the remainder is
devoted to the raising of hay and grain. There is now a fine residence upon the
farm and all modern equipments and conveniences, and the place stands as a
monument to the efforts and energy of the former owner. Mr. Hall also became
connected with the commercial interests of Eagle as one of the owners of the
store which is now conducted by Diehl & Mace. He was associated therewith in 1914. 

    In 1889 Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Miss Gladys C. Smith, a native of
Iowa, who passed away on the 3d of September, 1913, while the death of Mr. Hall
occurred on the 7th of February, 1919. They were the parents of three children,
of whom one daughter died in infancy. The others are Fay W. and Grace, the
latter a teacher in the schools of Eagle and also acting as housekeeper for her
brother upon the home farm, which is located but a short distance from the town
of Eagle on the main road between Caldwell and Boise. The son, Fay W. Hall,
enlisted for service in the United States army on the 9th of August, 1918, and
was in Camp Fremont, California, for three months and afterward at Camp Mills,
New York, for a month. He then went to Camp Stewart, Newport News, Virginia, and
was aboard the boat, ready to embark for France when the armistice was signed,
being a member of the Twelfth Infantry Machine Gun Company. He is now giving his
attention to the farm work which he is carefully and systematically conducting,
winning substantial success in the conduct of his affairs. 


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1920



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