Newton H. Hall From 'History of Portage County' 1885 NEWTON H. HALL, lumberman, P.O. Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, August 4, 1842, son of William and Bethiah (Palmer) Hall. His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Hall, a native of Vermont, settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1819, and his maternal grandfather, John Palmer, was a native of Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution. Our subject was reared in his native township, and was educated in the common schools. He was in the late war of the Rebellion, enlisting August 4, 1862, in Company I, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the Tennessee campaign, under Burnside; the Atlanta campaign, under Sherman, and the Nashville campaign, under Thomas; was in all the engagements of his regiment, and at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864, he captured a flag from Gen. P. Clayburn's division of the Rebel Army, for which act he received a medal from Congress in January, 1865. He was honorably discharged in June, 1865, when he returned to Brimfield Township and engaged in farming there up to 1881, and then removed to Kent, Ohio. The same year he embarked in business at Boardman, Ohio, where he is still interested in a planing-mill and lumber trade. He was married April 15, 1874, to Stella, daughter of James and Maria (Hopkins) Woodard, of Kent, this county, by whom he has two children: Anna and Helen. Mr. Hall is a F. & A.M. In politics he is a Republican. |