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JOHN T. HALL
A successful general contractor of
Stockton, well known for his association with public development work, is John
T. Hall, a native of Missouri, born in Stone County, April 4, 1868. In 1890 he made his first trip to Stockton,
remaining for one year, and on his return east, located in Denver, Colorado,
and for eleven years was in the transportation department of the Denver &
Rio Grande Railroad. In 1904 he returned
to Stockton and took charge of the planting of 300 acres of vineyard at
Farmington, the property of the Raymond Granite Company of Madera, California,
and for the following three years had charge of the property. Next he took a trip to Canada, looking over
the country and its possibilities, but the lure of California proved too strong
and he came back to Stockton and opened a hospital at 711 North Hunter
Street. After disposing of this he was
for three years superintendent of the Juvenile Home for Boys and Girls.
Mr. Hall then entered the general
contracting business, building bridges for the city and county and doing
extensive sewer work, building the sewers in Lakeside Terrace and Stockton
Acres, two of the new subdivisions in the northwest part of Stockton. He is now engaged in general contract
work. Mr. Hall’s first wife died within
a year of their marriage; his second marriage united him with Miss Elizabeth
Miller, a graduate nurse, who had charge of the East Side Sanitarium at
Stockton for about six years. They have
one daughter, Ruth, who had the honor of being the first child to buy Liberty
Bonds during the late War, and was a blue ribbon prize winner when one year old
at the Better Babies Show in Stockton.
Mr. Hall was made a Mason at Salida, Colorado, and he also belongs to
the Sons of Veterans and the Loyal Order of Moose. He made a most creditable run for councilman
in 1914, receiving 1207 votes, and is very popular in Stockton.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1228. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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