Hall, J. P.

HALL, WALTHALL, MCCLELLAND, RHEA

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 6/30/2019 at 14:00:04

Biography ~ Joshua P. Hall
November 11, 1854 ~ April 22, 1925
Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
April 20, 1893

We are in receipt of a copy of the Denver, Colorado, Sun containing pictures and biographical sketches of the prominent railway men of that city. Among the portraits we notice that of J.P. HALL, formerly a well known and popular business man of Leon. We reproduce the sketch in full:

J.P. HALL was born in Chariton, Iowa, Nov. 11, 1854, and there educated in the public schools. He commenced his railroad life in 1872 at the age of seventeen years as a telegraph operator on the Iowa division of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, where he worked in various capacities as operator, ticket agent and station agent until 1876, when he was transferred to Lincoln, Nebraska as operator and cashier for the same company, afterward being appointed ticket agent from which position he resigned in 1877 to accept the cashiership of one of the largest banking institutions in southern Iowa, at the place where he formerly worked as operator. He served as cashier until 1881, when on account of failing health he was compelled to resign.

He came to Colorado in 1881, and after roughing it for about one year, and his health improving, he accepted the chief clerkship in the general agency of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad at Denver. He has worked continuously for this company from that time until the present at Denver, serving in various positions, such as chief clerk, traveling freight agent, traveling passenger agent, ticket agent, and in 1888 was appointed to his present position of Colorado passenger agent, having charge of the passenger business for the states of Colorado and Wyoming and the Territory of New Mexico north of Santa Fe.

He is an ardent admirer of and firm believer in the principles and percepts of Masonary, having attained the Knight Templar and Shrine Degrees.

NOTE: J. P. Hall, the son of William Jackson and Mary Catherine (Walthall) Hall, died April 22, 1925, Denver, Colorado. His wife, Etta May (McClelland) Hall, was born in Leon, Iowa, in November, 1858, the daughter of Dr. Josiah Robinson and Amanda M. ((Rhea) McClelland. She died in Denver, Colorado November 11, 1914. They were interred at Leon Cemetery, Leon, Iowa.

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