Keppele Hall

As printed in 1909

Keppele Hall, a contracting engineer of Dayton, whose thorough preparation for his profession, combined with his unfaltering energy, has brought him to a creditable position in business circles, was born in Newark, New Jersey, on the loth of June, 1872. A year later his parents removed to Trenton, New [jersey, where they resided until 1898. In the meantime the son began his education in the public schools and continued his studies in the State Normal and Model School, from which he was graduated in 1889. Splendid educational facilities were offered him, for after leaving that institution he had the privilege of attending Princeton University, where he completed the four years’ course by graduation in 1893, while subsequently he pursued a post-graduate course in electrical engineering, there continuing for a year.

After winning his degree of electrical engineer, Mr. Hall opened an office and remained in Trenton until 1897. He then went to New York city with the Western Electric Company, accepting a position in its electrical laboratory. After spending three years there he went to Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1900 as manager of the Shore Electric Company and the Seabright Electric Light Company. He remained at Red Bank until 1902 and then came to Dayton as consulting engineer for the National Cash Register Company, which position he filled for four years or until 1906, when he began an engineering contracting business on his own account under the name of the Keppele Hall Company. In 1908 the business was reorganized as the Hall-Cronan Company, of which Mr. Hall is the president. This is now one of the profitable concerns of the character in Dayton, the ability of the partners gaining for them first rank in professional circles.

In 1896 Mr. Hall was united in marriage in Trenton, New Jersey, to Miss Fanny Southard Hay, a daughter of Malcolm Hay, of Pittsburg, who was the first assistant postmaster general under Cleveland’s first administration and died while filling that position. Mr. Hall belongs to the Dayton City Club, the Buzfuz Club, the Dayton Country Club and to Christ Episcopal church — associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests. In politics he is independent and does not seek office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon a business for which he has splendidly qualified by educational training and in which he has made steady advance, occupying a prominent place in professional circles.

As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.