Samuel B. Hall
Samuel B. Hall, merchant, Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, July 29, 1881; son of Henry and Elizabeth (Breck) Hall, natives of Vermont. His father was a son of Benjamin Hall, who settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1818, and taught the first district school in the township; his mother was a daughter of Daniel Breck, of Hartland, Vt. They had four children: Porter B., Caroline (deceased), Samuel B. (first, deceased), and Samuel B. (second). Henry Hall was a carpenter by trade, but after his settlement in Brimfield Township was principally engaged in farming. In 1850 the family removed to Franklin Mills (now Kent), where Mrs. Hall died in 1852. Mr. Hall then married for his second wife Mrs. Sophia Kilborn, of Hudson, whither he afterward removed, and there resided until his death in 1876; he died at the age of seventy-eight. He was a member of the Congregational Church, in which he was a Deacon for many years. Samuel B., the subject of this sketch, was educated in the common schools and Kent Academy. Owing to ill health, in 1853, he went to California, remaining there three years, when he returned to Kent and engaged in farming for several years. After that he embarked. in mercantile trade; then was in the drug business for a time, and in 1876 engaged in the boot and shoe trade, in which he has continued to the present time. Mr. Hall has been twice married, first in September, 1858, to Sarah, daughter of Guy and Sarah Doolittle, of Brimfield. this county. The issue of this union was one child—Cora (Mrs. Charles Reed). Mr. Hall was married to his present wife, Jane Barton, of Kent. Ohio, in September, 1866, and by her has three children: Henry, Porter and Herbert. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican; an active F. & A. M.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885