Randolph County, West Virginia          Biography of NATHAN ISAAC HALL

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 558
Randolph

NATHAN ISAAC HALL has had a long and active associa-
tion with business and financial affairs in West Virginia.
For a quarter of a century his home has been at Elkins, and
he has become one of the group of officials managing the
great financial and industrial interests of the Davis and
Elkins families here. He is vice president and treasurer
of the Davis Trust Company.

He was born December 26, 1867, on a farm near Grafton
in Taylor County, son of William K. and Abalona (Knotts)
Hall, and grandson of Nathan and Mary (Means) Hall and
James and Susanna (Miller) Knotts. Both the Knotts and
Hall families were pioneers in Taylor County. His father,
William K. Hall, was a farmer, a republican and he and
his wife were Methodists. They had four sons and two
daughters, and the three living sons are Arthur A. Hall,
connected with the West Virginia University at Morgan-
town, James K. Hall and Nathan Isaac Hall.

Nathan Isaac Hall received the first diploma ever issued
to a graduate of the Grafton High School. His early edu-
cation was followed by a bookkeeping course in Eastman's
Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, and he began
his business career as a bookkeeper in the Tygart Valley
Bank at Philippi. For three years he was a merchant in
that Barbour County city. Mr. Hall came to Elkins in
1897, and for a time served as bookkeeper in the Elkins
National Bank. After a year he became connected with the
coal industry as bookkeeper for what is now known as the
West Virginia Coal & Coke Company.

With increasing familiarity with these interests and
notable proficiency in every duty assigned him, Mr. Hall
in 1907 was chosen treasurer of the Davis Trust Company.
He is still treasurer, and subsequently the duties of vice
president were also bestowed upon him. He is a member of
the Board of Education of Elkins.

Mr. Hall has not been in politics, is a republican voter,
a Methodist, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and has
taken fourteen degrees in the Scottish Rite.

In 1908 he married Miss Grace Darlington. Their two
sons are Nathan Isaac, Jr., and William Darlington Hall.