Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Hall, H. Clay 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Hall, H. Clay, Little Falls, is a native of New Jersey, and after many years 
of sea service entered the law office of Cummings, Alexander & Green, of New 
York city, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.  In 1860 Mr. Hall accepted an 
important office in the United States navy, which he filled until October, 
1861, when he resigned to enlist in the 1st New York Mounted Rifles, as a 
private, from which he was mustered out in 1865 as first sergeant.  Mr. Hall 
has a record in the war department for distinguised success.  HE also served 
in the United States army during the Mexican war and has during his earlier 
years had considerable experience on the sea, having filled every position, 
from cabin boy to captain.  He has penetrated through the Behring Straits as 
far north as 73 deg. 35 m.  Mr. Hall was elected in 1885 commander of the 
G.A.R. for New York State.  He has practiced law in this county ever since the 
close of the war, and no lawyer in the bar stands higher than he in the 
estimate of the judges of the Supreme Court of this district.  He married 
Sophia Brown, of Franklin, and they have three children living.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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