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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [194-195]

           JAMES HALL, resident at Grindstone City, has operated since
        1870 as a turner in the grindstone mills.  He was born Feb. 24,
        1852, in Northumberland Co., Ont., and is the son of ALEXANDER and
        CATHERINE (McCAULEY) HALL.  The family removed in 1862 to Mahoning
        Co., Ohio, where MR. HALL became a miner at the age of 11 years,
        working in the coal mines.  He was employed in that capacity until
        he was 16 years old, when he came to Sanilac County and spent two
        winters in the lumber woods of Austin Township.  In the summer of
        1868 he was employed in the saw-mill of CHARLES DURAND, located one
        mile south of Sand Beach.  Through the following summer he fished
        at Forestville, and came first to Grindstone City in the summer of
        1870.  He entered the employ of the Huron Stone Company and spent
        two months stripping stone, after which he became a turner, and has
        pursued that vocation since.
           In 1878 he bought 162 acres of land on section 27, in Port
        Austin Township.  It was covered with the forest, and he has clear-
        ed and improved one-half the tract.  He is preparing to devote his
        attention exclusively to breeding fine grades of cattle, and has
        now a herd which contains some excellent specimens of the Short-
        horn and Holstein breeds.  He also owns 160 acres of land, with 30
        acres improved, in Austin Township, Sanilac County.
           MR. HALL was married Nov. 28, 1878, to BRIDGET, daughter of
        THOMAS and CATHERINE McCOY.  They have two children, - CATHERINE
        and MARY A.  MRS. HALL was born Feb. 25, 1852, in Ottawa Co., Ont.
           MR. HALL has held the office of Road Commissioner, of Port
        Austin Township, in which capacity he excelled.

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