Arthur C. Hall Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: HALL
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1158

   ARTHUR C. HALL, treasurer and general manager of John Carter &
Company, Inc., wholesale paper jobbers of Boston, Mass., is a resident of
Salem Depot, N. H., where his family has been a prominent one for a num-
ber of generations. He was born in Salem, February 28, 1863, and is a Son
of Prescott Coburn and Mary Ann (Macurdy) Hall, and a grandson of
Alvah and Nancy (Coburn) Hall.
   Arthur Coburn Hall was educated in the public schools of Boston, and
completed a course of study in Bryant and Stratton's Commercial College.
He then engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes with his brother,
their business being an extensive one founded and built up by his father ,
Prescott C. Hall, a business man par excellence whose activity was a large
factor in the prosperity enjoyed by Salem. Arthur C. Hall had charge of
the financial affairs of the concern from 1882 until 1886. At the end of that
time he started in the wholesale paper business with John Carter and Com-
pany of Boston as assistant treasurer and general manager. At the death
of Mr. Carter in 1907 Mr. Hall became treasurer and general manager,
offices he has filled with marked efficiency. He also is the owner of one of
the finest farms in Salem. For three years he served as a member of the
water board of Salem.
   June 14, 1893, Arthur C. Hall was united in marriage with Lucretia
Esther Ward, who was born in Boston, October 30, 1865, and is a daughter
of Sylvester L. and Mary Ann (Conant) Ward. They have had two chil-
dren: Marion, born August 20, 1894; and Ralph Macurdy, who died young;
Fraternally, Mr. Han is a member of the local grange, Patrons of Husband-
ry, of which he was treasurer five years, and for four years was governor of
the Pilgrim Fathers.

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