Husband Chapin Hall 1 2
Born: 12 Jul 1816 - Busti, Chautauqua Co, NY 2
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Died: 12 Sep 1879 - ? Jamestown, Chautauqua Co, NY 3
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Father: Samuel Hall ( - ) 2
Mother: [Unk] Davis ( - )
Marriage: 2 Nov 1837 3
Wife Susan Bostwick 2
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Died: Aft 1887
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Father: Alexander Bostwick ( - ) 3
Mother: Lucinda [Unk] ( - ) 3
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1 F Rose E. Hall 2
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Spouse: Charles C. Wetmore (1829-1867) 1 4
Marr: 15 Dec 1857 2
Spouse: A. M. Kent (1840- ) 1 3
General Notes: Husband - Chapin Hall
The common schools which he attended in his early boyhood were not of a very high type, nor possessed of an advanced curriculum, but he made the most of these limited advantages, and attended for several terms the Jamestown Academy, then the leading educational institution in that part of the State.
At the age of twenty-one he married, remaining on the farm where he was born for nearly four years. About the year 1841 he moved to Pine Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the lumber and mercantile business for eight years, then going to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, afterwards returning to Ridgway, Warren County. In 1851 he moved with his family to Warren, and engaged in the banking business. Later in life he became interested in manufacturing, and at the time of his death was the leading partner in the extensive manufacturing firms of Hall, Hatt & Parker, of Newark, New Jersey, and of Hall & Eddy, of Louisville, Kentucky. He was also one of the owners of the Jamestown Worsted Mills, and was a large proprietor of real estate in Louisville, Kentucky, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and other places.
Mr. Hall was a Republican in politics, and as would be expected of a man who was not born to compromise, he was a sturdy, though fair, partisan. He was long remembered by area politicians for the shrewdness and the executive power he displayed as the leader in the political revolution of Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1858. It was the year of the anti-Lecompton revolt, and Judge Gillis, a devoted Democrat and friend of Buchanan, was defeated for re-election to Congress by Chapin Hall. Judge Gillis had settled at Ridgway as the agent of the Philadelphia Ridgway estate, when there was not a road nor a settlement within fifty miles of that pretty mountain village. He had been taken from there to New York to be tried for the murder of Morgan, of anti-Masonic fame. He had been in the House and Senate of Pennsylvania, and had been chosen to Congress in 1856, but the success of 1858, when the first Republican victory was achieved in the State, was too much for him, and the far-seeing wisdom of Chapin Hall was the instrument of his downfall.
Mr. Hall served but one term in Congress, for he did not relish public life, and was too much involved in important business matters to devote his entire time to the public service. While in Congress, however, he discharged his duties with the fidelity, energy, and integrity which marked him in every transaction of his life.
He was a man of unusually decided peculiarities of character, and it has been said that he was liable to strong prejudices. This was owing in a measure to his direct and positive nature. Sham, hypocrisy, indecision, or weakness of character he despised, and was at times unable to conceal his dislike for these traits. No man, however, made more ample reparation than he when convinced that he had been in the wrong, and no man ever manifested greater fidelity to friends, or was more willing to help them than he. In all his business relations he was the soul of integrity and justice, and he gave all his extensive interests his constant personal supervision, and familiarized himself with every detail. Though he held those in his employ to strict accountability for genuine hard work, he exacted no more than he was willing to render, and all the years of his life was noted for his great industry, and the amount of unremitting toil he was capable of performing. As a citizen he set an example worthy to be followed. His vast wealth, instead of being hoarded, was invested in active business, greatly benefiting various localities and employing hundreds of workmen, who were always paid good wages and received their just dues. He was also a generous man, exercising his liberality with wisdom and good sense. As a friend to young men engaging in business he was a powerful ally and a good adviser, and many men were placed on the road to financial prosperity through his instrumentality.
A short time before his death he purchased the old homestead of 600 acres, in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York, which he took great pride and pleasure in improving; but he had overworked and from the effects of this over-expenditure of physical strength, he died on the 12th of September, 1879, at the residence of his brother, John A. Hall, proprietor of the Jamestown Journal.
General Notes: Wife - Susan Bostwick
from Busti, Chautauqua Co, NY