S. JUDSON HALL Bio
Monongalia Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Chicago and New York, Volume II 
pg. 152 & 153

S. JUDSON HALL has spent practically all his life in Monongalia County, was for a number 
of years a successful farmer and stockman, but for twenty years past has been actively 
identified with the Morgantown Ice Company, and as its general manager and treasurer 
has built up the industry into one of the largest ice manufacturing and distributing 
plants in West Virginia.

Mr. Hall was born on a farm in the Clinton District of Monongalia County, 
September 8, 1854, son of Ephraim B. and Elizabeth (South) Hall. His father, a native 
of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, born in 1818, came to Monongalia County, West Virginia, 
when about twenty-one years of age, and first bought a farm on the fiats in Morgan 
District, later moved to another place in Clinton District, and after selling that 
went to Henry County, Illinois, and spent three years in that state. On returning to 
Monongalia County he bought a farm in Grant District, and on that place he lived out 
his useful and honorable career and died in 1899, at the age of eighty-one. He was a 
member of the Baptist Church. In Fayette County, Pennsylvania, he married for his 
first wife, Rhoda Ross, who died in Monongalia County. Elizabeth South, his second 
wife, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Elijah South, who moved 
with his family from New Jersey to Western Pennsylvania and thence to Monongalia 
County, West Virginia. Elizabeth South Hall was born in Greene County, 
Pennsylvania, February 16, 1825, and died January 16, 1908, at the age of eighty-two. 
Ephraim Hall was the father of ten children, one by his first marriage and nine by 
the second. A brief record of these children is as follows: John Ross, who lives at 
Laurel Point in Monongalia County; S. Judson, who was the oldest of his mother's 
children; Anna C., wife of William Hess, of Monongalia County; Elijah Beaten,, of 
Morgantown; Ira Ephraim of Morgantown; William P. of Glendale, California; Jesse 
Spurgeon, of Columbus, Ohio; Squire Thurman, deceased; Joseph Milton, of Pennsboro, 
West Virginia; and George M., who lives in Glendale, California.

S. Judson Hall spent his early life on his father's farm. His advantages in the 
district schools were supplemented by two years as a student in West Virginia 
University at Morgantown. For several years he taught country school. This was 
during the period that he was attending the university and afterward. Following 
his university and teaching career be took up farming as his regular pursuit, and 
gradually broadened his enterprise as a stock raiser and lumber dealer in the 
Battelle District, where he remained until 1900. On leaving the farm and going to 
Morgantown Mr. Hall in 1901 became an employe of the Morgantown Ice Company, in 1905 
he bought the controlling interest in the company and has since been the general 
manager of the business. This company was incorporated in 1901. Mr. Hall is also a 
director in the Commercial Bank of Morgantown, and is a member of the Baptist 
Church and the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce.

In 1877 he married Mary J. Coen, who died in 1880, leaving a daughter, Isabelle. 
This daughter is the wife of Lafayette Glover, formerly of Wetzel County, West 
Virginia, and they now live in Lakeland, Florida, and have three children, Mary, 
Arthur and Honor. In 1881 Mr. Hall married Mary E. Haught, of Monongalia County, 
daughter of Wilson and Sarah E. (Harter) Haught. To the second marriage were born 
seven children: Guy Allen, born September 11, 1882, is assistant manager of the 
Morgantown Ice Company, and by his marriage to Ola Sanders has two children, Mary 
Catherine and Sarah Jane. Annie Laurie, a member of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, is the wife of John Earner Hall, of Monongalia County, and they now 
live in Morgantown. Their children are Violet, Cecil, Mary, Myrtle, and John 
Earner. The third child, Viola M., a successful business woman and member of The 
Daughters of the American Revolution, is the wife of John Campbell, a graduate of 
Kentucky State Universi!
ty. To their marriage was born one daughter, Ellen Marie. Iva Raye is the wife of 
Hermas L. Lough, of Morgantown, and the mother of Lelia, Eleanor, Hildred and Herman 
Hall. Oscar Judson is an assistant manager of the Morgantown Ice Company and by his 
marriage to Nell Herod, has one son, Jack Herod. Golda Elizabeth, a graduate of 
Morgantown High School, West Virginia University, and a member of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, is the wife of Robert Patton White, a graduate of 
Washington-Irving High School and West Virginia. To them was born one son, Robert 
Patton, Junior. The youngest, Leila Bent, a graduate of Morgantown High School, 
is the wife of Ernest Elaine Wells, a graduate of Tyler County High School, West 
Virginia University and received a master's degree from Kansas Agricultural 
College. To their marriage was born one son, Robert Blaine.