Lewis County, West Virginia Biography: E. T. W. HALL, M. D. ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , April 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 133-134 E. T. W. HALL, M. D. A physician and surgeon with a long and honorable record of service, Doctor Hall has prac- ticed many years in Lewis County, and is now located at Weston. He is one of the proprietors of Hall & Green Hospital on North Main Street. Doctor Hall was born near Janelew, West Virginia, August 24, 1864, son of William D. and Nancy S. (Law) Hall. His father was born in Lewis County in 1836, and died in 1888. The mother was born at Janelew in 1844 and died in 1919. William Hall raised a company for the Union Army during the Civil war, and served three years as cap- tain of Company C of the Tenth Volunteer Infantry. He was finally mustered out on account of disability. It was during the war, in May, 1863, that he married Nancy S. Law. When he was released from army service he settled on a farm on McCan's Run, and in 1870 bought another farm and was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. He owned 507 acres of land. He is a stanch republican in politics, and was a member and local minister of the United Brethren Church. His family con- sisted of nine children, seven of whom are still living. Dr. E. T. W. Hall grew up on his father's farm, and after the public school entered Otterbein College in Ohio, where he pursued the classical course for three years. He studied medicine at the University of Maryland at Balti- more, graduating M. D. in 1885. For the first eighteen months after leaving college Doctor Hall practiced at Buck- hannon, and then moved to Freemansburg in Lewis County, where for thirty-three years he gave his time and talents to an extensive country practice, and for fifteen years of that time conducted a well appointed hospital at Freemans- burg. In November, 1919, Doctor Hall moved his home and offices to Weston, where to a large extent his professional service is performed in the Hall & Green Hospital. Doctor Hall owns considerable land in Lewis County and is a stockholder in the Weston Independent, the official re- publican paper of Lewis County. He is a republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his family are members of the United Brethren Church. In 1885 Doctor Hall married Fannie S. Bewazley, of Middlesex County, Virginia. She became the mother of five children: John W. P., who grad- uated from the Glenville Normal School, spent two years as a Government teacher in the Philippines, and is now an engineer; Alma, wife of Earl Batcher, of Weston; Hen- rietta, wife of Addison Weeks, of Cleveland, Ohio; Barnes E., a graduate of the Glenville State Normal, is principal of the high school at Oceana, West Virginia; and Prank E. is a farmer in Lewis County. The mother of these chil- dren died in 1892. The second wife of Doctor Hall was Edna J. Steinbeck, who is survived by one son, Herbert W. Hall. Herbert W. Hall was a student in Otterbein College when he enlisted and joined the One Hundred Forty-sixth Hospital Corps in the Thirty-seventh Division, and saw service along the front lines in France. The pres- ent wife of Doctor Hall was Martha S. Minich. They have two children: Irene, a student in Otterbein University in Ohio; and Richard M., attending high school. Doctor Hall served in the World war as captain in the Medical Corps, Surgical Section.