Adam Hall

ADAM HALL.

This gentleman, who is the efficient and popular superintendent of the Defiance County Children’s Home, located in Tiffin township, was born in that township March 14, 1841.

Jacob Hall, father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania January 15, 1803, and in 1822 married Susannah Coy, who was born July 2, 1805, in Greene county, Ohio, in the fall of 1831. They came to Williams (now Defiance) county, settling in Section 15, Tiffin township, where both died, the father on April 6, 1851, the mother on October 23, 1870. To them were born ten children — eight sons and two daughters — Adam being the eighth in order of birth.

The subject of this sketch, as will be seen, was ten years old at the time of his father’s death, and he remained upon the home farm with his mother, aiding in the labors of the fields, until he attained his eighteenth year. He then started out to make his own way in the world, but continued to live with his mother until he entered the Union army during the Civil war, enlisting February 8, 1864, in Company E, Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (a veteran regiment). In May of that year he was placed on detached duty at the headquarters of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, and remained in the service until hostilities ceased.

After his return from the war Mr. Hall engaged in carpentering in Tiffin township for about two years, and during the following two years and a half was in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Co., at Stryker, Ohio. In the latter part of November, 1870, he returned to Tiffin township, where he again worked at the carpenter’s trade for about six years, and then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. He is the owner of a good forty-acre farm in that township, which he has improved and placed under a high state of cultivation.

On September 14, 1865, in Tiffin township, Mr. Hall was married, by Houston Russell, J. P., to Miss Elizabeth Dieclen, who was born there January 24, 1847, a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Clark) Dieden, honored pioneer settlers of Tiffin township, having come to Williams (now Defiance) county in 1843. The father was born in Bavaria, Germany, and died April 16, 1872; the mother was born in Virginia January 24, 1807, and died July 6, 1889. They had a family of five children — one son and four daughters — Mrs. Hall being the fourth child. Her grandparents on the father’s side were born in Ebenburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, and died there, the grandfather when seventy-two years old. Mrs. Hall’s maternal grandparents were born in Virginia, whence they moved to Hocking county, Ohio; the grandmother died at the age of forty years, the grandfather at the advanced age of ninety-two years. To our subject and his wife have been born six children, as follows: Henry H., married to Florence E. Balser; Otto A., married to Hannah Greitman; Ernest A., married to Amanda Amsberger; Jennie M.; Western M.; and Roy B.

On September 4, 1895, Mr. Hall assumed the duties of superintendent of the Defiance County Children’s Home, and is now filling that responsible position for the fourth year. The grounds include twenty-two acres in Tiffin township, and the Home will accommodate forty children. Mr. and Mrs. Hall appear to be the right people in the right place: everything about the Home is kept in the best of order, and neatness prevails everywhere; indeed, the affairs of the institution were never more capable managed than under their able guidance. They are sincere and earnest Christian people, active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Hall is serving as trustee. Socially, he affiliates with Evansport Lodge, No. 489, I. O. O. F.; and with Bishop Post, No. 22, G. A. R. He takes a commendable interest in the welfare of his township and county, and has acceptably served as assessor in Tiffin township for three successive terms.

As printed in Commemorative biographical record of northwestern Ohio : including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams and Fulton, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and (1899). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.