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William
C. Hall family ties
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Kansas
historical records provide the
following
Family Ties
Carey's brother was William C. Hall, a prominent physician
and surgeon of the city of Coffeyville. William was born in Highland
county,
Ohio, Oct. 29, 1860, a son of Carey F. (senior) and Hannah
(Milburn) Hall,
the former a native of Highland county, Ohio, born Oct. 20, 1836, and
the mother was also born in that county and state. The father was a
merchant by occupation and died in December, 1895.
The paternal grandfather, Jacob Hall,
was born in what is now
West Virginia, where he was reared, and he settled in Highland county,
Ohio, where he became one of the early pioneers and was by occupation a
farmer. The paternal great-grandfather, George Hall, was born
in New Jersey, but settled in Virginia in early life, and the family is
of English descent, history saying that the first American ancestor came
over on the Mayflower.
The mother of Dr. Hall was a daughter of Daniel and
Esther A. (Rice)
Milburn, natives of Pennsylvania, who became early settlers in Highland
county, Ohio, their homestead adjoining the farm of Dr. Hall's paternal
grandfather, the father and mother of the Doctor having attended the
same school. The mother is living, at the advanced age of seventy-two
years, the parent of five children, four of whom are living: Luellen
Nora is the wife of J. C. Price, a director of the Coffeyville
Stoneware Company at Coffeyville; Laura C. died at the age of eighteen
years; Virdie R. is the wife of Hardie Staufield of Coffeyville; Carey
F. is also a resident of Coffeyville, and Dr. Hall is the
eldest of the children.
His boyhood days [back to William C. Hall]
were spent in Highland and Adams counties,
Ohio, and his preliminary education was secured in the schools of
Adams county. He also attended a normal school in that county and
finished a teachers' course in the National Normal University at
Lebanon, Ohio, of which institution Prof. Alfred Holbrook, the
originator of normal schools, was president. Dr. Hall was engaged in teaching
for several years, beginning at the age of seventeen at a place
called
Falls of Blaine, in Lawrence county, Kentucky, where he taught
one
term, and thereafter taught in Adams and Pike counties, Ohio. While
engaged as a teacher he began reading medicine and in due time entered
the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he
completed the required course of study, in 1885.
In the same year he began the practice of medicine at Latham, Ohio, but
in 1886 took up his residence in Sinking Springs, Highland county,
Ohio. In 1887 he removed to Kansas, locating at Coffeyville, where he
has since been engaged in general practice. He has taken a
post-graduate course in the Chicago Polyclinic School
and in
other ways keeps abreast of the times in the advancement of the medical
profession. He is a member of the Montgomery County, the Kansas State
and the American Medical associations.
He has served as a member of the school
board, of which he was president one year, and he served
as pension examiner during Cleveland's administration. Not only
has
he been a successful physician, but he has also been identified with a
number of large and important industrial and business enterprises, and
is distinctively a man of affairs.
He is one of the directors of the Condon National Bank, president
of the Coffeyville Stoneware Company, vice-president of the
Coffeyville Gas & Fuel Company, and is interested in many other
business enterprises of Coffeyville. He served as president of the
Commercial Club during the years of special effort to advance the
commercial and industrial interests of Coffeyville, which effort did
much in the way of locating industries in that city. He is interested
extensively in real estate, has an interest in the Mecca Hotel
property, and is also a stockholder in the Coffeyville Foundry &
Machine Company.
He is the local surgeon of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the
Santa Fe railways, and is the division surgeon for the Missouri Pacific
and the St. Louis, Iron Moutnain[sic] & Southern railways, having
several surgeons under him. He is also president of the Good
Samaritan Hospital at Coffeyville.
Dr. Hall has been twice married. On June 15, 1887, he was married to
Miss Sara H., daughter of Rev. Addison Elite of
Sinking Springs, Highland county, Ohio. She died April 1, 1906,
leaving two children: Levera May, an assistant in the office of
the Coffeyville Stoneware Company, and William Carlton. The
second marriage occurred in September, 1907, to Miss Nellie E.
McCord, who was born in Adams county, Ill.
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Pages 727-728 from volume III, part 1 of
Kansas:
a
cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions,
industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with
a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and
reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front.,
ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.
Transcribed December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at
the Kansas State Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a
two-part volume 3.
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