Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Hall, E. E. January 10, 1882 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 51-52
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     E. E. HALL is prominently connected with important business interests in 
Portland, being president of the Emerson Hardwood Company and vice president 
of the Nicolai-Neppach Company, and is accounted one of the city's most 
progressive and capable business men. Mr. Hall was born in Cranesville, Erie 
county, Pennsylvania, on the 10th day of January, 1882, and is a son of Milton 
E. and Mary (Doty) Hall. His mother, who was a direct descendant of one of the 
passengers in the "Mayflower," had several brothers in the Union Army during 
the Civil war. Milton E. Hall followed the occupation of farming throughout 
his active life but is now retired and lives with his son, E. E., at the age 
of eighty-seven years. He is a son of Horace Hall, a native of Connecticut, 
who started for Oregon with ox team and covered wagon in 1847, but on reaching 
northwestern Pennsylvania stopped and bought a farm, on which he lived until 
1902.

     E. E. Hall received a public and high school education, and at the age of 
thirteen years went to work in a woodworking establishment, receiving thirty-
five cents a day for ten hours' work. When nineteen years old he came to 
Portland and entered the employ of the North Pacific Planing Mills, with which 
concern he remained for two and a half years, after which he was for three and 
a half years with the Oregon Planing Mills. In 1909 he went to work for the 
Nicolai-Neppach Company, with which he has been identified continuously since, 
having been vice president of the company since 1920. He was in charge of the 
hardwood department of that business until 1926, when he became president of 
the Emerson Hardwood Company. This business was established in 1906 by 
Banfield & Veagie, under the name of the Pacific Lumber and Manufacturing 
Company, which was taken over in 1914 by J. S. Emerson, who changed its name 
to that of the Emerson Hardwood Company. It has always been at its present 
location at North Front and North Twentieth streets, and was run as a sawmill 
until 1922, since which time it has been a wholesale lumber yard, handling 
hardwood exclusively, which it buys in the eastern and foreign markets. The 
yards contain over a hundred thousand dollars' worth of lumber on hand all the 
time and a splendid market has been built up throughout this part of the 
northwest. The present officers of the company are, E. E. Hall, president and 
manager; Roger Sands, of Seattle, vice president, and Carl J. Neppach, 
secretary and treasurer. Mr. Hall has devoted his time closely to the 
business, which, under his able and judicious management, has enjoyed a steady 
and substantial growth, being now re- as one of the leading concerns in its 
line in this section of the state.

     On December 4, 1907, Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Miss Luella M. 
Osgood, of Marshfield, Wisconsin, and they are the parents of three children, 
namely: Leroy, who is a student in the University of Oregon; Leonard and Jack. 
Mr. Hall gives his political support to the democratic party and has taken a 
keen interest in the welfare of his city. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and 
member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and also belongs to the 
Chamber of Commerce. He has led a busy and industrious life, has been true to 
every responsibility put upon him, and has well deserved the success which has 
crowned his efforts.

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