History of Bucks
County, Pa Volume 3 by William H. Davis
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WILLIAM W. HALL
WILLIAM
W. HALL,
only surviving son of Benjamin and Sarah (CARLILE) HALL, was
born in the village of Buckingham where his father and uncle Moses were at
the time engaged in Mercantile business, November 2, 1851.
His parents removing to the present homestead in 1854, he was
reared on the farm upon which he still resides and was educated in the
schools of Plumstead township. At
the age of thirteen years, during the civil war, he and four companions
went to Philadelphia and offered their services in the Union Army.
It is needless to say that their services were declined on account
of their age. He returned home
and entered the store at Buckingham as a clerk, remaining as such for
eight years, and then returned to the farm.
In politics Mr. HALL is a Republican and has taken an active
interest in the councils of his party.
He has held a number of local positions, and has been a justice of
the peace since 1888. He has
served as delegate to state and congressional conventions and as a member
of the county committee. He is
an active member of the Independent Order of Red Men, and has served as
representative grand chief for five terms to the grand council of the
order. He is also a past chief
of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr.
HALL married, October 26, 1880, Anna FRY, daughter of
Michael FRY, of Plumstead, and they are the parents of ten
children: Chester Arthur: Roscoe C.; Nellie B., deceased; Warren Russell;
Florence Ethel; Norman D.; Althea Fry; Eleanor E., deceased; and Sarah
Esther, and Emma Pauline Hall.
Test
taken from page 150 of:
Davis,
William W. H., A.M., History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New
York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905] Volume III
Transcribed
February 2001 by Joan Lollis of IN. as part of Project the Bucks Co.,
Pa., Early Family Project, www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html
Published
April 2004 on the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/ |