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the lumber business, a line in which he was destined to become notably identified. In 1902 the growing importance of the lumber trade demanded so much of his time that he disposed of his store and removed to Sala- manca, New York, which he made his head- quarters during his residence in Cattaraugus county. In 1904 he returned to Buffalo and at once assumed a leading position in the lum- ber trade. He organized the firm of Beyer, Knox & Company in 1904, and in 1907 the Pascola Lumber Company, of which he was chosen president. Besides being a large deal- er and closely identified with large lumber en- terprises, he labored successfully to bring about a spirit of co-operation among lumber- men and dealers, and in fostering a unanimity of sentiment and natural helpfulness that greatly benefited the trade. In 1908 he was chosen president of the Hardwood Lumber Exchange of Buffalo. In 1907 he was chosen treasurer of the Manufacturers' Club, 1908-00 he was president of the same, and in the same years vice-regent snark, Western Dis- trict of New York, of the Hoo Hoo's, a lumber organization. He is also a director of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- tion of Chicago, Illinois. In 1910 he was elected treasurer of Erie county, assuming the duties of that office, January 1, 1911.
Progressive and public-spirited, high-mind- ed and honorable, energetic and ambitious, there seems no qualification that Mr. Beyer lacks to carry him onward and upward in public or business life. He stands as a leader in civic and industrial progress ; his opinions carry weight with his fellows and his advice is sought on important matters relating to the public good. Politically he is a Republican, and an attendant of the Park Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Manufac- turers' Club, of which he was president, 1908- 09, and president of the Otovega Club. He has been identified with the Masonic Order for several years. He is a member of Queen City Lodge, No. 358, Free and Accepted Ma- sons; Salamanca Chapter, No. 362, Royal Arch Masons; Lake Erie Commandery, No. 20, Knights Templar ; Buffalo Consistory, No. 320, and Ismailia Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also a director and member of the executive committee of the Buffalo Chamber of Com- merce.
He married, August 20, 1890, Elizabeth G., born August 2, 1866, daughter of Samuel S.
Rolls, of Ontario, Canada, and his wife, Eliza- beth (Walker ) Rolls. She is the third of five children, Joseph W., Louise, Elizabeth G., George and Jennie A. Children of Frank A. and Elizabeth G. Beyer: I. Florence A., born December 5, 1892. 2. Marguerite A., June 20, 1894. 3. Lillian Vera, September 9, 1896. 4. Frank A. Jr., May 5, 1903.
The great mass of the English HALL Halls undoubtedly are the posterity of the men of Halle, Saxony, who came in the successive Saxon invasions of England. They were called De la Halle, which became a surname and is now simply Hall. It is said the Halls of Great Britain exceed in number any other name except Smith, Jones, Brown and Robinson. There were many Hall emigrants to New England prior to 1700 settling in all colonies.
The emigrant ancestor of the Halls of Port- land, Chautauqua county, New York, is Ed- ward Hall, who is probably the Edward made freeman at Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1636. He was at Duxbury, Massachusetts, July 7, 1636; at Bridgewater, 1640; at Taunton, 1641; at Duxbury, 1642-43; at Bridgewater, Massa- chusetts, 1644, where land was allotted him March 28, 1645. He owned a one fifty-fourth part of the town from 1645 to 1650, when he withdrew and had land apportioned him in Rehoboth. Edward Hall had a family in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he resided from 1650 to 1655. He moved to Rehoboth in 1655, where he was number 41 out of for- ty-nine persons in order of the settlers' estates for meadow lands. Lots were also drawn, May 26, 1668 for meadow lands. The name of Edward Hall appears in both drawings. He made his will, November 23, 1670, and died November 27, 1670. His wife, Hester, survived him. Children, born in Rehoboth, except the first two, born in Braintree: John, Esther, Samuel. Jeremiah, Thomas, Pre- served, Andrew, Benjamin (of whom fur- ther ).
(II) Benjamin, youngest child of Edward Hall, "the emigrant," was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, August 7. 1668, died in Wren- tham, Massachusetts, August 26, 1726. He was absent from Wrentham a year or two be- fore 1699 and a year or two after 1710. He married, in Wrentham, January 9, 1691, Sarah Fisher, died November 2. 1756. Children : Josiah, Edward (of whom further), Dorothy.
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Jeremiah, Benjamin, twin of Jeremiah, Pre- served, Sarah and possibly two other children not born in Wrentham.
(III) Edward (2), son of Benjamin Hall, was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in March, 1698. He was a proprietor of that town in 1734 and 1742. He died between November, 1764, and 1765. He was a ser- geant, ensign and lieutenant, commissioned by the English crown, and was in the colonial service. He removed to Uxbridge, where he purchased two hundred acres of land, pay- ing two thousand pounds. He married, Feb- ruary 7, 1721, Hannah, daughter of Eleazer Fisher, of Wrentham. Children: Ezekiel, Edward (of whom further), James, Hezekiah, Hannah, Mary and Seth.
(IV) Edward (3), son of Edward (2) Hall, was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, July 18, 1727, died in Croydon, New Hamp- shire, December 28, 1807. He settled in Croy- don before 1774 with a family of ten children and his niece, Elizabeth Hall. He lived near his father's farm in Massachusetts, and it is said kept a tavern. He was a lieutenant in the colonial service, commission by the crown, and was a Royalist from principle. He was highly esteemed, serving as selectman, 1784-85-86; also was constable, collector and moderator. His children were all born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, four of his sons serving in the continental army. He married, in 1748, Lydia, daughter of John and Sarah (Taft) Brown, of Uxbridge, or Leicester, Massachusetts. She was born 1730, died 1819. Children: I. Hannah, married Ezekiel Pow- ers. 2. Ezekiel. 3. Abijah, held the offices of constable, collector, selectman and captain. 4. James, of whom further. 5. Edward, held the offices of captain, constable, collector, modera- tor, representative and proprietor's clerk, 1794- 1810; a man of large property in Croydon. 6. John, married Jerusha Woodbury. 7. Lydia, married Timothy Eggleston. 8. Betty, married John Leverin. 9. Ezra, married Molly Leland. 10. Darius, married Betty Brown. All died in Croydon, New Hamp- shire, except Ezekiel, Ezra and Darius.
(V) James, third son of Edward (3) Hall, was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, April 19, 1757, died in Croydon, New Hampshire, July 29, 1835. He was a farmer all his life and owned a large trace of land. He served in the revolutionary war and fought under the direct command of General Washington.
He was in receipt of a revolutionary pension until his death. He was a member of the Episcopal church, and a man of great influ- ence. He married, November 30, 1775, (then in his nineteenth year) Huldah Cooper, of Croydon, who died February 19, 1847, aged eighty-eight years, and is buried in Croydon. She was a niece of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Children, five born in Croydon, New Hamp- shire, five in Richmond, Vermont, and two in Peru, New York: I. Abijah, born Novem- ber 7, 1777. 2. Sarah Cooper, July 12, 1779, died young. 3. Delia Ann Ward, August 31, 1782; married Benjamin White. 4. Ahira, of whom further. 5. Chloe, born May 19, 1787 ; married Manasseh Sawyer. 6. Huldah, July 21, 1789; married Darling, of Croydon. 7. James, born July 22, 1792 ; mar- ried (first) his cousin, Ruth Hall; (second) Mrs. Sarah Dustin ; settled in Newport, New Hampshire, and represented that town in the state legislature, 1845-46. 8. Asaph Sherman, born August 2, 1794, died 1813. 9. Carlton, born February 17, 1797; married (first) -; (second) Mrs. Catherine Hall. 10. Albina, born October 16, 1800; student of the medical department of Dartmouth Col- lege and prepared the herbarium used in the college for many years, being the best botanist in college. He was a graduate of Berkshire Medical Institute, 1823, and practiced his pro- fession successfully in Landoff, New Hamp- shire; Sedgwick. Maine; Fredonia, New York; Newport, New Hampshire; Wisconsin and Croydon, New Hampshire, dying in the latter place. He represented Croydon in the state legislature in 1868-69; was candidate for state senator in 1871, and served as jus- tice of the peace many years. He was the last survivor of his large family. He married Livia Powers, December 18, 1823; no chil- dren. II. Lyman, born in Peru, New York, December 9, 1808; studied medicine and set- tled in Cornish, New Hampshire ; married and had issue. 12. An infant, died unnamed.
(VI) Ahira, second son of James Hall, was born in Croydon, New Hampshire, December 26, 1784, died in the town of Portland, Chau- tauqua county, New York, February 24, 1858. He worked on the home farm in New Hamp- shire until attaining legal age, then went to Charlotte, Vermont, where he remained a few years before removing to Messina, St. Law- rence county, New York, where he took up
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a tract of land. At the outbreak of the second war with Great Britain, in 1812, he was among the first drafted for service and fought through the entire war on the Niagara fron- tier. His wife determined not to remain alone on their wilderness farm, and, after packing all she could upon a horse, buried the remainder of their household effects, started with her three children for her father's home in Vermont, which she reached in safety. After peace was declared, Ahira located in Chautauqua county, where he began his resi- dence with his family in a log house owned by Alfred Palmer, in October, 1815, in the town of Portland. Here his after life was spent in prosperity and honor, enjoying the confidence of his community. He was of uncommon ability, and occupied high position in town and church. He held the office of justice of the peace for fourteen consecutive years, being chosen on the Whig ticket. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, serving on the official board.
He married, in Charlotte, Vermont, October 18, 1807, Laura Palmer, who died in Brock- ton, Chautauqua county, New York, Decem- ber 18, 1863, aged seventy-three years. She was a daughter of John Palmer, born in Tol- land, Connecticut, in 1755, and when quite a young man settled in Charlotte, Vermont, where he took up a large tract of land which he cleared and cultivated until his death in 1835. He served in the reyolutionary war un- der General Washington and was awarded a pension for his services. He was a member of the Baptist church, of which he was a dea- con for many years. He married Ruth Chap- man, by whom he had ten children: John, James, William, Chapman, Melinda, married Zemri Hill; Abigail, married Edward Allen; Laura, married Ahira Hall; Ruth, married Annanias Jones ; Charlotte and Lovica. Chil- dren of Ahira and Laura Hall: 1. John Pal- mer, born 1809, died August, 1871 ; married, in Sherman, New York, October 24, 1841, Jane Ann Miller. 2. Albina, born October 10, 1810; became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church ; married, October 13, 1835, in Portland, New York, Nancy Quigley. 3. Ruth, born June 14, 1812; married, in Port- land, April 29, 1838, Richard Reynolds. 4. James Ahira (of whom further). 5. Laura Ann, born October 17, 1817; married, in Portland, November 25. 1841, Charles Fay. 6. Samuel P., born April 1, 1820; married, in
Sherman, New York, March, 1848, Miranda Kip. 7. Ralph H., born November 3, 1821 ; married, in Sherman, New York, March 29, 1852, Caroline J., daughter of James and Ruth (Hall) Hall, of Newport, New Hamp- shire. He became one of the most prominent men of his county, was a school teacher, cat- tle broker, farmer, bank president and a lead- ing member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1903 he completed the erection of a beautiful white brick and stone building on the corner of Main and Fay streets, in the village of Brocton, at a cost of nearly ten thousand dollars, and presented the same to the town of Portland to be used as a public library for the use and benefit of the inhabi- tants of the town. This is to be known as the "Ahira Memorial Library." This hand- some gift was made as a memorial to his father, who was one of the early settlers of the town. The people so appreciated his gift that a perpetual appropriation has been voted for its support and maintenance. No chil- dren. 8. Nancy Altheda, born February 21, 1824; married, in Portland, May 20, 1846, Henry Flint. 9. Livia Paulina, born Novem- ber 28, 1826; married, in Sherman, New York, January 17, 1852, John T. Green. 10. Lodoiska Matilda, born October 1, 1828; mar- ried, in Portland, William Martin. II. Sarah Melinda, born March 24, 1831; married, at Forestville, New York, October 7, 1865, Jolin D. Merritt. 12. Laura Jane, born February II, 1833; married, at Forestville, September 3, 1867, Frank D. Ellis. 13. Chloe, born May 4. 1835, died December 4, 1836. 14. Ezra, died in infancy.
(VII) Dr. James Ahira Hall. son of Ahira Hall, was born April 4, 1815. in New Hamp- shire, died in Brocton, town of Portland, Chautauqua county, New York. April 8, 1865. He was brought to Portland when but a year old. He was educated in the public schools, entered the medical department of Bowdoin College, whence he was graduated, M. D., 1839. He began practice in Sedgwick. Han- cock county, Maine, continuing until his com- ing to Portland, in 1844. He located in the village of Brocton, where he was in practice until his death in 1865. He was commissioned surgeon by Governor Morgan, September 9, 1861, of the Forty-ninth Regiment, New York Volunteers ; served until October 13, 1864, when he was honorably discharged at Fort Porter, Buffalo. Later he was appointed sur-
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geon in charge of the New York hospitals, lo- cated in and about Washington, D. C. He was a skillful physician and surgeon, and carved out for himself an honorable, useful career. He married, in January, 1839, Caro- line H., born August 25, 1820, daughter of Jolın Herrick, of Brooklyn, Maine. Mrs. Hall survives her husband and is now in her ninety- second year (19II). Children: Ralph A. (of whom further) ; Theodore F .; Helen A., married Milton C. Belknap; Alice C., mar- ried Frank J. Mericle ; Ada C., married Lewis D. Sullivan.
(VIII) Ralph Ahira, eldest son of Dr. James Ahira and Caroline H. (Herrick) Hall, was born in Sedgwick, Hancock county, Maine, June 5, 1844, his parents coming to Brocton, Chautauqua county, New York, the same year. He was educated in the public schools, completing his studies at Fredonia Academy, which he attended in 1859 and 1860. He entered business life as a clerk for John T. and William F. Green, in Sherman, New York, when he was seventeen years old. In 1870 he began business for himself as senior member of the firm of Hall & Thomp- son. In 1871-72 the firm was Hall & Ball. From 1872 to 1881 he was engaged in the hardware business under the firm name of Ralph A. Hall. In 1883-84 he was traveling salesman for the wholesale hardware firm of Walbridge & Company, Buffalo. From 1885 to 1892 he was engaged in private banking under the firm name of Dean & Hall. In 1892 he organized the State Bank of Brocton, was chosen president and held that important posi- tion continuously until August I, 1911, when he resigned. In 1891 he organ- ized the Brocton Land and Improvement Company and purchased all of the remain- ing property of the "Harris Community," some five hundred acres. This tract was divided into small vineyards of five and ten acres each and proved a most successful business venture. În 1900 he was instru- mental in organizing the Brocton Fruit Juice Company, for the manufacture of native wines. He has been treasurer of this com- pany since its beginning. His greatest activ- ity has been in the extension and improvement of grape growing, and as treasurer of several grape shipping companies has been brought into close touch with that important Chautauqua county industry. He is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is a
Republican in politics. He is a highly-respected gentleman and has passed a busy, useful life. He is a member of Lake Shore Lodge, No. 851, Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Masons, Dunkirk Commandery, No. 40, Knights Templar, and Ismailia Temple, Buf- falo, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
He married, in Brocton, New York, Octo- ber 19, 1870, Mary Jane Haight, daughter of Mark and Densy (Knickerbocker) Haight. of Chenango county, New York, later of Brocton, Chautauqua county. Child: Evelyn H., born July 7, 1873; married Walter N. Clark, of Brocton, New York, and has Frances H., born in Brocton, November I, 1897.
The Love family is of Scotch-Irish LOVE stock, and county Antrim, Ire- land, is the region from which the Buffalo branch immediately spring. Here the father of the original immigrant was born and died. His wife's name was Sloan, and she was an aunt of William Wilson Sloan, presi- dent of the Buffalo General Electric Company.
(II) David Love, son of the parents above referred to, was born in county Antrim, Ire- land, July 12, 1825, died in Buffalo, New York, May 30, 1884. While still under twenty years of age, he came to the United States. He was long engaged in Buffalo, in the pro- duce and commission business, buying out William Sloan. In politics he was an active Republican, and both in public affairs and in business was a man of prominence and in- fluence. Originally a Presbyterian, he was a convert to the Roman Catholic church, and was an attendant of St. Joseph's Cathedral. He married Anna Connor, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1826, died in 1897. Children : James Andrew, married Villa Carman: David, de- ceased, a grocer in Buffalo, left a son and daughter ; Elizabeth Eugenie, deceased, Anna, died in infancy ; John, died at age of thirteen years; William Henry, of whom further; Rose Gertrude, married John F. Cochrane, lives in Buffalo.
(III) William Henry, son of David and Anna (Connor) Love, was born in Buffalo, New York, November 18, 1862, died there, November 17, 1911. He was educated in the public schools of Buffalo, and graduated in 1881, at the age of nineteen years, from the Central high school. In the same year he was appointed to the principalship of one of the
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public schools. He filled several positions of this character until 1892, holding place in the front rank of public school teachers in the city. In 1892 he was unanimously chosen by the appointing board to fill the position of superintendent of education of the city of Buffalo, in which capacity he remained one year. At this time he was under thirty years of age. Though his tenure was short, he established for the first time a system of kin- dergarten work in connection with the pub- lic schools, and otherwise left his impress upon the department of public instruction. He had previously, in 1891, commenced the study of law in the office of Cuddeback & Kenefick. In 1893 he was admitted to the bar, and entered into partnership with Daniel J. Kenefick ; he practiced in association with him and with James Lester Quackenbush, now of New York City. In 1909 Mr. Love, as attorney, reorganized the New York State Steel Company. On account of the great ability displayed by him in this, he was two years later made president of the corpora- tion, one of the first importance, capitalized at about six million dollars. He was a direc- tor in the Columbia National Bank, the Buf- falo Abstract and Title Company, the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company, the
Holland Patent Realty Company.
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these. he was largely interested in the Stadler Hotel, now under construction in Cleveland, Ohio. For a short time he was a member of the park board. He was a member of the Buffalo Club, the Country Club, and the Auto- mobile Club. He was in good health and ac- tivity until a few days before his death, when he was taken ill with appendicitis, was oper- ated upon, and died several days later. In religion he was a Roman Catholic, and an attendant at the Cathedral Chapel. In poli- tics he was a Democrat.
Mr. Love married, in Buffalo, June 18, 1896. Helen A., daughter of Lonis and Jose- phine (Holman) Niendorf. Children : Helen E., born August 16, 1897; James, April 22, 1899: Virginia Ann, December 27, 1907.
LOVE John Love, founder of this family. was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He came to America about 1850, going first to Michigan, but soon coming to Buffalo, New York. He is buried at Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo. Child, William, of whom further.
(II) William, son of John Love, was born at Glasgow, Scotland, died at Buffalo, New York, December 24, 1887. He was a ma- chinist, and for thirty years foreman of the John W. Tifts machine shop. He married Janet Marr. Among their nine children the sixth was Archibald Stuart, of whom further.
(III) Archibald Stuart, son of William and Janet (Marr) Love, was born in Buffalo, New York, December 13, 1859, died in Buffalo, March 9, 1906. He was a machinist, but re- tired some years before his death. At one time he was an Odd Fellow. In politics he was a Republican. He married, June 28, 1888, Sarah Julia, born in Brooklyn, daughter of George Deloss and Sarah Ann (Lewis) Shep- ard. Her father was born at Little Falls, Herkimer county, New York, October 27, 1834, died October 28, 1908, at Buffalo, to which place he had moved in 1863. He was a carpenter and builder. He was a Democrat, and in his younger days quite active. In Buf- falo he was a member of the Richmond Ave- nue Methodist Church. He married, April 13, 1859, Sarah Ann Lewis, born at Little Falls, July 17, 1837, died in Buffalo, August 8, 1909. Children : 1. Sarah Julia, born May 5, 1860, of whom herein. 2. George Dennis, born August 11, 1861, died June 11, 1910; married Elizabeth Guth, and had eight chil- dren ; he was a carpenter and builder in Buf- falo. 3. Charles Francis, born in Buffalo, Oc- tober 30, 1873 ; educated in the public schools, engaged for a year and a half in the dyeing business, but since 1899 a carpenter and build- er ; he is independent in politics, and a member of the Richmond Avenue Methodist Church. Dennis Lewis, father of Sarah Ann (Lewis) Shepard, was born in Little Falls, New York, August 1, 1813 ; he was a boatman on the canal and moved to Buffalo about 1863, where he died February 10, 1872. Edward L. Shepard, father of George D. Shepard, was born in Herkimer county, died in 1861 in New York City, where he had been living for some time. Edward L. Shepard was a carpenter and builder, and also interested in the soap busi- ness, the manufacture of stoves, and a paper factory at Little Falls. Children of Archi- bald Stuart and Sarah Julia (Shepard) Love : I. William George, born and died October 31, 1889. 2. Janet Marr, born August 13, 1891 ; married, December 18, 1911, Frank Maynard, who is with the International Railway Com- pany, and lives in Buffalo. 3. Mary Julia, born
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May 24, 1895; lives in Buffalo. 4. Grace Sarah, born October 16, 1898.
Edward Livingston Hall, eldest
HALL son of John Adams Hall (q. v.) and Emily (Perry) Hall, was born October 1, 1841, in Warren, Pennsylvania. In 1849 his parents removed to Busti, New York, upon the farm that had been originally taken up by his grandfather, Samuel Hall, when he came from Vermont in 1814. His common school education was supplemented by courses of study in the academy at Painesville, Ohio, and in a business college at Poughkeepsie, New York. Mr. Hall assisted his father on the farm until the outbreak of the civil war. Enlisting then in the Seventh Company of Sharpshooters, which went to the front in 1862 with the One Hundred and Twelfth Regi- ment of New York Volunteers, he was hon- orably discharged in the following year at Suffolk, Virginia, for serious illness, and was taken home. After his recovery he managed the farm for his father upon shares, during the absence of the latter in Washington where he held a clerkship in the house of representa- tives.
In 1865 Mr. Hall was engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania with his brother Henri, and a couple of years later was a part- ner for a brief time in a retail drug store in Jamestown, New York, with Delos W. Hatch and Edward A. Dickinson. The principal business of his life, however, the purchase of standing timber and its manufacture into lum- ber, which he took up in 1868, and for about . ten years he and his business associates de- voted themselves to the pine lumber industry, marketing their product by shipping it down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers in rafts, gen- erally at the time of the spring freshets. As the pine forests disappeared from Western New York and Pennsylvania, and water trans- portation became supplanted by the newly de- veloped railroads, Mr. Hall turned his atten- tion to hardwood timber, and in 1878 formed with Edward Shaver the partnership of Shaver & Hall, a business association unbroken for more than a quarter of a century. The firm manufactured staves and heading for the east- ern market, and in a few years located its principal mills in Kentucky and Tennessee. When Orlando C. Frisbee joined the firm, about 1888, its name became Shaver, Hall & Frisbee, and its business was greatly extended.
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