Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Hall, William W. 1872 - 
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WILLIAM W. HALL.

    William W. Hall, representative at Logan of the Borden Condensed Milk
Company, was born at Wellsville, Utah, January 4, 1872, and is a representative
in both the paternal and maternal lines of pioneer families of the state. His
parents were Samuel P. and Margaret (Williamson) Hall, the former a native of
Liverpool, England, while the latter was born in Scotland. The birth of Samuel
P. Hall occurred March 17, 1841, his father being Thomas Hall, who brought the
family to the United States in November, 1843, arriving at New Orleans, whence
he made his way up the Mississippi river to Nauvoo, Illinois, having become a
convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At Nauvoo he and his
family resided for a time and then removed to St. Louis, where they lived for
three years. They afterward became residents of Cincinnati, Ohio, and while
there residing the mother suffered from cholera but survived the dread disease.
Mr. Hall was an iron moulder by trade and on leaving Cincinnati he made his way
down the Ohio river to Madison, Indiana, where he resided for about six months.
He afterward returned to St. Louis, where he remained for a year, when a Mrs.
Gillam assisted him in securing a team of horses, two yoke of oxen and a yoke of
cows, and he then started for Utah in 1851, arriving in Salt Lake City in
October. There the family lived until the spring of 1860, when they removed to
Wellsville. The same spring Samuel P. Hall started for California and on
reaching Willow Springs was hired to ride the pony express, being thus engaged
until 1861. His route was from Willow Springs to Dugway, in the middle of the
desert-a distance of forty-eight miles. On the 2d of February, 1864, he wedded
Margaret Williamson, whose parents were pioneer settlers of Wellsville. Samuel
P. and Margaret (Williamson) Hall became parents of eight sons and a daughter.
The mother died April 19, 1891, and on the 20th of November, 1893, Mr. Hall was
married again and had two daughters by the second union. The experiences of Mr.
Haft were many and varied through the pioneer period. In the days when he rode
the pony express he was often in the saddle with Colonel W. F. Cody, better
known as Buffalo Bill. He afterward became actively engaged in farming and stock
raising and he was also prominently connected with irrigation Interests. He
became president and secretary of a ditch company and in connection with David
Stoddard and others built the first canal in Cache valley, the project being
developed under the name of the Bastfield Irrigation Canal Company. Mr. Hall was
in various other ways closely associated with the development and upbuilding of
the district. He served as justice of the peace for several years and at the
time of the fight with the Indians at Battle Creek, Idaho, he helped to care for
the wounded soldiers who were brought to Wellsville. He led a very active and
useful life up to within three years of the time when death called him on the
15th of October, 1918. His father had resided for many years at St. George and
worked on the temple there and also engaged in the cultivation of gardens and
vineyards. He filled three missions to England, while Samuel P. Hall made six
trips across the plains to bring emigrants to Utah.

    William W. Hall, whose name introduces this review, acquired his early
education at Wellsville and spent two years at the Brigham Young College of
Logan and one year at the Salt Lake Business College. He was afterward for two
years in Idaho, where he engaged in hauling ore for the Custer Mining Company.
He was then an engineer in placer mining at Bannock, Montana, for two years. On
the 15th of November, 1899, he married Miss Nettie Larsen, a daughter of Lars A.
and Christina A. (Larsen) Larsen, who were natives of Denmark and during an
early period in the settlement and development of Utah became residents of
Boxelder county. Mr. Larsen was a wheelwright by trade. Four children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Hall: Oreta, Loyal, La Grande and Boyd.

    About the time of his marriage Mr. Hall spent two years on a mission in the
northern states and following his return engaged in the creamery business at
Wellsville. He afterward entered the employ of the Cache Valley Condensed Milk
Company of Logan, with which he remained for ten? years, and during the past
four years he has been representative of the Borden Condensed Milk Company at
Logan, to which city he removed in 1901. He had previously been financially
interested in the Cache Valley Condensed Milk Company. In 1913 he became one of
the founders of the Farmers t Merchants Bank of Logan and for the past two years
has been its vice president. He also owns eighty acres of irrigated land and one
hundred and sixty acres devoted to dry farming, these tracts being cultivated
under his supervision.

    In community affairs Mr. Hall has always taken a deep and helpful interest
and recognition of his devotion to the public welfare came to him in his
election to the state legislature in November, 1902, for a two years' term. He
was also made a delegate to the Irrigation congress held In Chicago in 1900 and
was a member of the Logan school board for four years. He cooperates In all
plans and projects for the general good and is thoroughly familiar with the
conditions and opportunities of the west, laboring earnestly to improve the
former and utilize the latter for the welfare of the state.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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