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- Michigan Business Directory, 1863
BATTLE CREEK, p. 191
Tolman W. Hall and Ezra Convis joined the settlement in June, 1834. Vespucius Young came the same spring. Warren B. Shepherd came in the fall of the same year and taught the district school the following winter, and this was the first schoolmaster in Battle Creek. The next teacher was Miss Sarah Phelps, who taught the summer term.
BATTLE CREEK, p. 194
Hall Tolman W, postmaster, office on Main.
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Michigan Biographies, 1878
American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men with Portrait Illustrations on Steel, Volumes I-II
Hon. Tolman W. Hall
of Battle Creek, Michigan, was born at Sudbury, Vermont, September 1, 1805. His parents, Moses and Experience (Tolman) Hall, were of Puritan descent, and their early religious teachings have exercised a marked influence upon his life. His father served in the Revolution. An academic education ftted Mr. Hall for a teacher, and he followed the profession for several years. At Sudbury, April 12, 1832, he married Lois Mary Hitchcock, formerly of Hebron, New York. Soon after, he came into the possession of real estate near Battle Creek, Michigan, and, in 1834, he removed there and engaged in farming. In 1842 his wife died, and he gave up the farm and became a merchant. Before and after Michigan became a State, Mr. Hall held various local offices. In 1836, when the State government was organized, he was elected Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Calhoun County. He held the office until 1845; in 1844 he was admitted to the Calhoun County bar, but has never practiced. In 1855-6 Mr. Hall was a member of the Legislature; during the administration of Abraham Lincoln, and during part of Andrew Johnson's, he was Postmaster; in 1863 he was Alderman, and in 1865 was Mayor. He is now Justice of the Peace and Superintendent of the Poor of Calhoun County. He has always shown an active interest in the moral and educational advancement of Battle Creek. He holds office in the church, and aided in organizing the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in this city. He also aided in establishing the present school system, and takes a prominent part in the temperance movement. He was a Democrat until 1854; he is now a liberal Republican. Mr. Hall has traveled extensively through the United States and Canada. He is a man of strong character and positive convictions.
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1805 - Bef 1890 (84 years)
