My Genealogy Hound

Isaiah Hall, one of the pioneers of Michigan, and the owner of a finely developed farm of 200 acres in sections 19 and 20, Springfield township, was born March 17, 1836, in County Cavan, Ireland. He is a son of David and Mary (Nugent) Hall, the former of whom was born in Ireland, and the latter in Scotland.

The parents of our subject died when he was but a year and a half old, leaving seven children: James, who came to America in 1847, locating in New York, but soon after removing to Michigan and settling in Genesee County, where he died in 1900, aged 82 years; Samuel, who is a farmer and stock raiser of Genesee County, Michigan; Mrs. Jane Dailey, who lives in Oswego County, New York; Mrs. Elizabeth Tower, of Genesee County, Michigan; George, a retired farmer of Genesee County, Michigan; Robert, a farmer and stock raiser of Genesee County, Michigan; and Isaiah, our subject.

Isaiah Hall was about 12 years of age when he accompanied his brothers and two sisters to America. Until he was 18 years old, he lived at Albany, New York, removing then to Genesee County, Michigan, and finding it a great and lonely wilderness. It would be a long but very interesting story to tell of the hard work, the discouragements and the successes of our subject and his brothers, in the clearing and later cultivating of their 240 acres of land. They built a log house and a shanty and Mr. Hall lived there until removing to his present farm in 1861, having married two years prior to that. On his farm in Springfield township he has been very successfully engaged ever since in general farming and stock raising, making specialties of high grade cattle and stock, preferring cattle of Durham, Jersey and Galloway breeds, Rambouillet sheep, Poland-China swine and Clydesdale horses. He raises wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, peas and beans, and has a fine peach and apple orchard of six acres.

In 1859 Mr. Hall was married to Martha Irwin, who was born in Canada and is a daughter of David Irwin. Four children were born to them, namely: Mrs. Belle Hadley, of Holly, Oakland County, who has four children, — Bertha, Charles, Irwin and Arthur; Irwin, who died August 18, 1901, at the age of 38 years, leaving a wife and child; Mrs. Ella Kidd, of Fenton, Michigan, who has three children, — James, Helen and Martha; and Mrs. Ordell Beardslee, of Independence township, Oakland County, who has four children, — Laverne, Irwin, Josephine and Clara. The mother of this family died October 18, 1894.

For many years Mr. Hall has been more or less active in the ranks of the Republican party, attending nearly all the local conventions and taking part in their deliberations. He has served as highway commissioner to the satisfaction of the public, and his public spirited efforts have always been directed to the improvement of agricultural conditions and to the upbuilding of the common schools. He is well known and most highly considered in Springfield township.