HALL, Abraham M.

HALL, MOORE, BENDER, SCHNEIDER, SPENCE, GRAUELL

Posted By: Volunteer Transcribers
Date: 1/19/2003 at 20:32:48

ABRAHAM M. HALL. 

For more than a third of a century Abraham M. Hall has been a resident of Wheatland and Clinton county, and has taken commendable pride in the development and progress of this portion of the state. He is now serving as weigh master at Wheatland, a position which he has filled at interval for thirty years.

Mr. Hall is a native in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, born March 8, 1832, his parents being Samuel and Ann Frances (Moore) Hall. The father, also a native of the Keystone state, was a carpenter by trade and made that pursuit his life work. When our subject was eight years of age he removed with his family to Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and in 1857 left that state for Illinois, settling at Galena, where he remained for a year or two, after which he came to Iowa, establishing his home at Osage. In 1861 he enlisted in the Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry and served for two years, after which he was taken ill. He then returned to Iowa, and died in Wheatland, when about fifty-six years of age. His wife had died in Pennsylvania about 1845. They were the parents of six children, two of whom yet survive. William Hall being engaged in the milling business in DeWitt. Iowa.

For some years after the removal of the family to Clarion county, Pennsylvania, Abraham M. Hall remained at home with his father. He too was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting soon after the breaking out of hostilities as a member of Company I, Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, with which he served for three months, when he was discharged at the expiration of the term of enlistment. He then returned to the front as a photographer and remained with the army until the close of hostilities. He then came to Iowa and has since been a resident of Wheatland. He has served almost continuously in public office. For many years he has filled the position of justice of the peace, and was town recorder from the in-corporation of Wheatland until three years ago. He has also been councilman and township clerk for years, and at the present time is village weigh master, which office he has held at different times through the last three decades. He also receives a small pension from the government.

In 1863 Mr. Hall was married to Miss Susan C. Bender, a native of Pennsylvania and unto them were born six children, five of whom are living: Charles B., who conducts a restaurant and is a cigar manufacturer of Davenport, Iowa; Fannie, who is living in Kansas; Abram M., who is married and has a family in Wheatland, where he is engaged in the manufacture of cigars; William Thomas, who conducts a restaurant and cigar store in Mokena, Illinois; and Maude, who resided in Pennsylvania with her aunt. The other child died in infancy, and the mother passed away in 1872. In 1864 Mr. Hall was again married, his second union being with Rhoda Schneider, daughter of George Schneider, one of the early settlers of Spring Rock township, Clinton county, and a prominent farmer, now deceased. By the second marriage there are seven children: Josephine, wife of Dr. Spence, of Clinton, Iowa; Beatrice, wife of Frank Grauell, a wagon maker of Wheatland; Nelson, a cigar maker of Davenport; Samuel, of Clinton; Belva, who is also in Clinton; Lanora and Lorado, both at home. The children were all born and educated in Clinton County. Mr. Hall was formerly a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, but there is now no post in Wheatland. His long retention in office well indicates his trustworthiness, his promptness and his reliability, and over his public career there falls no shadow of wrong.
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.