Husband Robert Calvin Hall 1
Born: 3 Sep 1865 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH 1
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Henry Martyn Hall ( - ) 1
Mother: Abbey Hubbell ( - ) 1
Marriage: 7 Aug 1897 2
Wife Frances P. Clapp 2 3
Born: 1869 3
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Martin Clapp (1835- ) 4 5
Mother: Anna M. Pearson ( - ) 5
Children
1 M Pearson Hall 2
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Rosalie Goodman Hall 6
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Frances Ross Hall 6
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Robert Calvin Hall
He received his literary and scientific education at the high school in Titusville, Pennsylvania. His first business occupation was as an assistant in his father's general store. Later for ten years he was actively engaged in pipe-line construction work for the Standard Oil Company. His early experience brought him into mercantile touch with manufacturers all through the Pittsburgh section, while the latter widened and broadened this early training. He waas, however, essentially of a constructive temperament, with a strong desire always to undertake and develop situations and conditions in embryo or undertone, and place them where they belong. This Mr. Hall did in a number of notable instances in the Iron City and vicinity. For a number of years he was in the brokerage business, and was recognized as a wise adviser, his reputation being such that he could refer his patrons with confidence to any bank in Pittsburgh.
With many of Pittsburgh's large business concerns Mr. Hall was actively associated, and was recognized as a dominant factor in business and financial circles. He was originator of the Duquesne Light Company; was treasurer of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Telephone Company, member and former president of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange; and active in a number of other enterprises. He was a large holder of Fourth Avenue real estate, and one of the builders and owners of the famous "Bellefield Dwellings," said to be the finest apartment house in Pittsburgh.
He had a farm and country residence at Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, "Ross Mansion," where he delighted to give the pleasure of out-of-doors to many friends, and he appreciated boys and girls.
He was one of the city's most prominent clubmen, belonging to the Union Club, the Pittsburgh Country Club, the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, the Sons of the Revolution, and several others. Politically, he was allied with the Republican party, but at all times was an independent freelance.
Mr. Hall was the possessor of one of the most valuable private collections of art in Pittsburgh, numbered among which was the world-famed painting, "The Bath," by a celebrated French artist, which took the first prize of $1,500 and a gold medal at the hands of the international jury of artists at the International Art Exhibit on the occasion of the dedication of the great Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.