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JOHN HUDSON HALL, a native of New York city, born Oct. 15, 1828, died in
Thomasville, Ga., March 3, 1891. He was a son of John V. Hall, whose ancestor
came to this country from England in 1700. First, clerk in a bank and then in the
store of Elliott, Burnap & Babcock, manufacturers of paper, he became a partner in
1850 in Babcock, Dubisson & Hall, and in 1854, in Campbell, Hall & Co., who on Nas¬
sau street, rose to great prominence. Mr. Hall became senior partner in i860. Having
acquired considerable wealth, he retired in 1881. Mr. Hall was one of those who, July
25, 1866, organized The West Side & Yonkers Patent Railway, which built half a mile
of elevated railroad on Greenwich street, operated with stationary power and an endless
cable. From that time forward, he gave great attention to elevated railroads, was a
director of The New York Elevated Railroad Co., which built the first successful line,
and shared in the management of The Manhattan Railroad until his death. At one
time largely interested in The Oregon & Transcontinental and The Union Pacific,
Mr. Hall also made investments in some of the largest railroad systems in the South.
He was vice-president of The Georgia Central Railroad & Banking Co., and The Rich¬
mond Terminal corporation, and director of The East Tennessee Virginia & Georgia
and The Richmond & Danville Railroads. In politics a Republican, he never took an
active part in public affairs, but was a member of the Union League club. He was
more of the typical American merchant and gentleman than politician. Thoughtful,
shrewd, and unassuming, his influence was powerful in corporations. By his marriage
in 1872, to Cornelia, daughter of Augustus H. Ward, he was the father of four chil¬
dren, John Hudson, Charles Ward, Cornelia Catherine and Martha Jane Hall.

WILLIAM HENRY HALL, merchant, born in Hackensack, N. J., July 21, 1826,
died in Budapest, Hungary, June 30, 1894. He was a son of Henry J. S. Hall, of
Coventry, England, a watchmaker, who came to America in his youth. William served,
an apprenticeship as clerk for Bush & Hillyer, and then found employment with Olcott,
McKesson & Co., a leading drug firm. In a short time, he felt competent to manage
a store, and, aided by a loan from his father, bought the retail drug store of Dr. Gunn
on Bleecker street, in the then fashionable quarter of the city. In 1851, with John
Ruckel, he engaged in a wholesale and importing trade in drugs, in the firm of Hall
& Ruckel, down town, and reaped great profit from the ownership of certain popular
proprietary articles and valuable trade marks. For about thirty years previous to his
death, though the old style was retained, Mr. Hall had been sole proprietor. He was
president of The L. W. Warner Co., director of The Fellows Medical Manufacturing
Co., of New York and London, The Washington Trust Co., and The Terminal Ware¬
house Co.; and the owner of choice real estate. Modest and retiring, calm, sound and.
sympathetic, he was a sterling man and held in affectionate esteem. ' Mr. Hall was
married in 1850, to Martha M., daughter of Curtis Hitchcock, and had several children..

ADOLPH HALLQARTEN, merchant, born in Mayence, Germany, Nov. 6, 1835,,
died in Wiesbaden, Feb. 13, 1885. Lazarus Hallgarten, his father, founded the house
of Hallgarten & Herzbel, now Hallgarten & Co. Educated at the higher public
schools, the subject of this memoir came to New York in 1850 and began life in the
Eagle drug store on Broadway, near Grand street. Next year, he entered a wholesale drug
house, and several years afterward the employment of D. T. Lanman & Co., wholesale
druggists. For D. T. Lanman & Co., he undertook many long trips to the West Indies,
Mexico and South America, which yielded such good returns that he was taken into.