BIO: Thomas Hall, Clinton Co.,Ky

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Nancy T. Green <ntgreen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:34:26 -0700

From: Portrait and Biographical Record, Buchanan and Clinton Counties, Missouri
containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, together 
with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States.
Chicago Chapman Bros. 1883

page 643-644
THOMAS HALL.  The village of Gower contains no citizen more worthy than the subject of 
this sketch.  Careful, temperate and industrious, he has been endowed by Nature with 
all the Christian virtues and is regarded in his community as one of its most useful 
and reliable men.  For many years he was closely identified with the agricultural 
interests of Buchanan County, and was a prominent factor in bringing about its
present prosperous condition.  In 1872 he retired from his farm and removed to Gower, 
having accumulated a competency and desiring to have more leisure and freedom from 
care, in order to enjoy more fully the attractions of his cozy home.

The Hall family originated in England, whence some of its members emigrated to America 
at an early day and settled in New Jersey, with the progress of which they were 
thereafter connected.  The paternal grandfather of our subject, Thomas Hall Sr., was 
born in that State, but removed thence to Kentucky, where his later years were passed. 
 The parents of our subject, John J. and Elizabeth (Rice) Hall, were born in Kentucky, 
where also they were reared and married and spent their entire lives.

Thomas Hall was born in Henry County, Ky., in December, 1816, and in that county 
passed his boyhood years.  His educational advantages were few and were gained under a 
system widely different from that now used in our schools.  It may be said of him that 
experience has been his chief teacher, and the valuable lessons learned in that school 
have been of the highest importance to him.  His father was a blacksmith, and under 
his supervision he learned that trade, which he followed for twenty years in Kentucky, 
residing in the village of Pleasureville.

In 1858 Mr. Hall removed to Missouri and settled in Buchanan County, where he followed 
the calling of a farmer with marked success.  He still owns two hundred acres of 
fertile land, all under cultivation, but his advanced age prevents him from doing 
anything more than superintend its improvement.  In all his work he has had the 
cheerful co-operation and active aid of his wife, to whom he was married in 1837.  She 
was in her girlhood Miss Edna F. Fallis, and was born in Kentucky, the daughter of
George Fallis, a native of North Carolina.  Mr. and Mrs. Hall are the parents of seven 
children, four of whom are living, as follows:  John W., a resident of Gower; Davis 
S., who is living in Colorado; George T. who makes his home in Kansas City; and 
Erasmuth C., who is in Plattsburgh.

Mr. Hall began life at the foot of the ladder, without other resources than his own 
resolution and energy, and is now the owner of a fine property.  He is one of the most 
liberal-minded men of the village of Gower and takes an interest in everything 
calculated to benefit the people around him, being willing to contribute of his time 
and means to bring about this result.  Politically he is a Democrat, and in his
earlier life was active in the party.  With his wife he is a devoted member of the 
Presbyterian Church, with which he has been long identified.

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