BIOGRAPHY: Jesse Wilson Hall; Cazenovia, Madison co., NY

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Biographical Review
The Leading Citizens of Madison County, New York
pub. 1894, Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company

JESSE WILSON HALL, a prominent resident and leading jeweller of Cazenovia,
where he has been engaged in business for the last twenty-three years, was
born in New Berlin, Chenango County, N.Y., November 5, 1850. His father, also
named Jesse W., was born in the town of Brookfield, Madison County, in 1810,
and died in Cazenovia in 1874.

He was the son of Stephen Russell Hall of the town of Dracut, Middlesex
County, Mass., who was born in 1766, and married Hannah Wilson, of Rockingham
County, New Hampshire. She was born in 1768, and was the daughter of Jesse
Wilson, a son of Nathaniel. Stephen Russell Hall was converted to the
Methodist faith about 1792; and his father, Ephraim Hall, a devout Baptist,
was so displeased with his son's apostasy that he discarded him. The latter
removed to New Hampshire, and in 1803 to Brookfield, Madison County, N.Y.,
removing by team, and bringing with him his wife and family, which at the time
he left Massachusetts consisted of six children. Three other children were
afterward born to them. Four sons and three daughters attained maturity, of
whom Jesse W., the father of our subject, was the youngest.

Soon after reaching his majority, Jesse W. Hall married Barbara T. Clarke, of
Brook-field, a daughter of James and Sarah (Boone) Clarke, both of New
Hampshire, and the former of whom was a farmer by occupation, and came to
Brookfield with his wife about 1808, settling on Clarke Hill. The father of
James Clarke was also named James, and the maiden name of his wife was Barbara
Tillinghast. The marriage of Jesse W. Hall and Barbara T. Clarke occurred in
Brookfield in 1832, where he followed his trade of carpenter and millwright
for some years, and then moved to New Berlin, where Mrs. Hall died in 1854.
Mr. Hall was again married, to Hannah (Brightman) Woodward, widow of Asa
Woodward, of Brookfield; and in 1858 they removed to Cazenovia, where for
eight years he was steward of the Cazenovia Seminary. Her death occurred
September 3, 1893, at her home in Cazenovia, when in her seventy-third year.
She had resided in Cazenovia thirty-five years, and for two years before her
death had. been an invalid. She left many friends, and was much esteemed as an
earnest and sincere Christian woman.

Jesse W. Hall is one of three surviving children, a brother, Ephraim Hall,
having met his death by drowning at Fitch's Dam, when nineteen years of age.
The other two children are: Lovisa, wife of William Ross, of Broome County;
and Sarah Jane, wife of Rev. L. C. Oueal, D.D., a prominent minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Our subject received a good education at the
Cazenovia Seminary, and in 1869, when in his nineteenth year, began to learn
the jeweller's trade with John Greenland, for whom he worked one year, and
then six years for W. H. Cruttenden. He resided in Sherburne one year, and in
1878 bought out the estate of John Greenland, then deceased. In his store,
which he purchased in 1882, he has done a large and increasing business; for,
although crippled in body since a child, he is possessed of intellectual
abilities of a high order, is sagacious and enterprising in business matters,
and an expert workman at his trade. In fraternal matters he is an Odd Fellow
in high standing, and in politics a Republican. That he enjoys the confidence
and respect of his fellow-townsmen is attested by the fact that he has served
as Town Clerk for fifteen consecutive years.

In 1880 Mr. Hall was married to Miss Lucy Nichols Bailey, daughter of Lewis
and Mariette (Nichols) Bailey, both of Onondaga County. Lewis Bailey was born
in Albany County, and died in Syracuse in 1860, when in the prime of life. His
widow still survives, at the age of sixty-nine, and is active and strong for
her years. She resides with Mr. and Mrs. Hall. Mr. Hall is one of the
successful and representative business men of Cazenovia; and both he and his
estimable wife deservedly hold a high place in the regard of their
fellow-citizens, and have the good will of all in the community in which their
lot is cast.