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JOSEPH HALL, farmer and lumberman, P. O. Redclyffe, was born in Butler county, Penn., May 23, 1845, a son of
Cornelius and Susan (Slater) Hall, former of whom was born in Crawford county, Penn., of Prussian and French parentage,
latter being a native of Clarion county, same State. They were farmers by occupation, and prominent members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cornelius Hall was a Democrat in politics, and filled various township offices;
he died in Butler county, Penn., in 1874; his widow yet survives. Their family consisted of thirteen children,
twelve of whom are still living: John H. (in Clarion county), Joseph, Samuel J. (in Oklahoma), Susan (wife of August
P. Von Slyke, in Wisconsin), Jerry M., Cornelius W. (in Redclyffe), Nancy A. (wife of John Stevenson, in Butler
county), Mary J. (wife of Lewis Stevenson, also in Butler county), Thomas A. (in St. Louis), Melinda (wife of Henry
Young, in Redclyffe), Melvin A. and William 0. (also in Redclyffe). Joseph Hall was reared and educated in Butler
county, Penn., and has been principally engaged in lumbering in Clarion, Elk and Forest counties, settling in Barnett
township, this county, in 1860. He married, in 1867, Miss Harriet, daughter of Robert Huling, and they have had
seven children: Sarah O. (Mrs. J. B. Work, in Jenks township), Cora A. (Mrs. E. L. Sutton, in Redclyffe), Lewis
R., Mary E., Matilda S., Alice (deceased) and Hattie. Mr. Hall in politics is a Republican. He has been auditor,
and is now school director of the township. He has been steward and exhorter in the United Brethren Church.
From:
History of the Counties of
McKean, Elk and Forest,
Pennsylvania
With Biographical Selections.
J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers
Chicago, 1890.
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