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JOSEPH ERVIN HALL
JOSEPH ERVIN HALL, a member
of the City Council of Stockton, was born in Monroe County, Michigan, February
6, 1852, a son of Thomas Erskine and Azuba (Eckley) Hall. His father,
born in Rutland, Vermont, September 11, 1817, moved with his parents to
Michigan, and afterward, in 1866, with his wife and children, to McHenry
County, Illinois, where he is still living on his farm. His mother, born also
in Vermont, in 1828, died in Illinois in 1886. Grandfather David Hall, born in
Vermont about 1787, and by trade a marble-cutter in early manhood, died in
Michigan about 1860, and his wife, Abigail, lived to the age of eighty-two,
dying in Illinois about 1874. Grandparents Eckley
lived to be over eighty, and grandmother Eckley’s
brother, Samuel Simmons, is living in Ringwood, Illinois, at the age of nearly
100 years.
J. E. Hall, the subject of
this sketch, was brought up on a farm, received the usual education, and helped
on his father’s farm. He came to California in 1871, arriving in Stockton on
the 20th of April. Here he became a clerk in the grocery business
and is now an outside salesman in the same line, being with the same firm
seventeen years. In 1878 he embarked in the manufacture of
gloves, and after two years in that venture he returned to his former position,
grocery salesman. He was elected, in 1884, to the city council, and served one
term.
Mr. J. E. Hall was married in
Stockton, born in this city, a daughter of James C. and Harriet Melcena (Boone) Smith. Her father, born in Tennessee, March
29, 1820, is a rancher just outside the city limits on the northwest, owning
about 2,400 acres. Her mother, born in Kentucky, May 10, 1824, was brought up
in Indiana, where her father, a nephew of Daniel Boone, was a member of its
first constitutional convention. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have three boys: Clarence
Ervin, born July 3, 1880; Eckley Boone, November 4,
1883; Eugene Lynwood, January 9, 1886. Mr. Hall is a member of the I. O. O. F.,
the K. of P., and the A. O. U. W.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 469. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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