OTTAWA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: HALL, Theodor (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 199, 200

        THEODOR HALL is doing a successful and substantial business in the
manufacturing of cement blocks in the City of Sandusky, and his well
equipped plant for this construction enterprise is established at 1913
South Campbell Street.
        Mr. Hall was born at Danbury, Ottawa County, Ohio, November 17,
1854, and is a son of Christian and Dorothy Maria Hall, who were born and
reared in Germany, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came
to the Untied States in 1846 and established their home at Danbury, Ohio,
on Sandusky Bay. Christian Hall moved with his family to Sandusky, and
later he removed to the vicinity of Clairmont, Iowa, where he became a
pioneer farmer and where his death occurred. His widow and children then
returned to Sandusky and Mrs. Hall passed the remainder of her life in Ohio.
        Theodor Hall gained his early education in the schools of Ohio and
Iowa, and as a youth he was employed by the month at farm work. He was thus
engaged about two years, then after his marriage, in 1875, he was for a
time engaged in farming on a rented place in Perkins Township, Erie County.
He then purchased in Sandusky a city lot on which he erected a small house,
and in this city he engaged in work as a mason, besides which he was for
several years engaged in contracting and building. In the meanwhile he
obtained a small farm near Bloomingville, this county, and there engaged in
market gardening, besides continuing his work as a contractor and builder.
In 1919 he sold his farm and purchased three lots on South Campbell Street,
Sandusky, where he has since built up a prosperous business in the
manufacturing of cement blocks for buildings and other structural work. He
is a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party, is affiliated
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are zealous
members of the Christian Church.
        In October, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hall and Miss
Mary Anna Ridman, who was born in Perkins Township, Erie County, August 2,
1855, a daughter of John and Barbara (Daniel) Ridman, the former a native
of Switzerland and the latter of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, they having been
for many years sterling and honored citizens of Erie County, Ohio. In
conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs.
Hall: Minnie became the wife of John Paff and is now deceased, her one
surviving child, Henrietta, being the wife of James Albert, of Sandusky;
Walter died at Camp Sherman during the World war; Mary Anna died at the age
of fifteen years; David was thirty-one years of age at the time of his
death, he having married Miss Flossie Arheit, who survived him, as did also
their one child, Norman Lee.




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