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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Lloyd Garrison, and one of the managers of that famousunderground railway which so baffled and mystified slave-owners, and which assisted so many fugitives to make good theirescape from bondage to the freedom of British soil in Canada.Mr. Hall inherited his love of freedom from a long line of free-dom-loving ancestors. These had in old time, no doubt, beensettled in Scotland. In later generations they dwelt in thenorth of Ireland and became fully identified with the thriftyand sturdy life of that country. He himself spent most of hislife at Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, where he was aprosperous banker. He lived, as did so many of the antislaveryleaders, to a good old age, dying in 1897. His wife was a womanof English ancestry. To this couple the subject of the present sketch, Lewis A. Hall,was born, at Cambridge, in 1843, early enough to receive in hisboyhood the impress of the heroic age in which his father livedand moved and acted to so good effect. He was educated in the 142
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LEWIS A. HALL 143 admirable local schools of Cambridge, and then, at the age ofeighteen years, began business life as an inmate of his fathersoffice. The elder Hall was at that time engaged in a generaltrade with South America and other foreign countries, as a mem-ber of the firm of Flint & Hall. That firm continued in businessuntil 1870, ranking among the foremost in that department ofcommerce. In the year named the two elder partners retired,and Lewis A. Hall, forming a copartnership with others, suc-ceeded to the conduct of the business, with offices at Boston andat Burlington, Vermont. He carried the business on with muchsuccess, at first on the original lines, and then on such broaderlines as developing interests seemed to indicate. In 1873 Mr. Hall formed the Lumber Export Company, withits principal offices and storage-yards in New York city, and withbranches in Boston, Montreal, and Ottawa, and with large prop-erties in Michigan and some of the Southern States. This com-pan

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