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- HALL, HENRY M., M. D. An influential and honored citizen and representative physician and surgeon of Polk County is Doctor Hall, who is engaged in the general practice of his profession at Cedartown, the judicial center and metropolis of the county, and whose success and prestige in his chosen vocation mark him as one of the leading exponents of the same in the northwestern part of his native state.
Dr. Henry Morton Hall was born in the City of Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, on the 2Gth of January, 1870, and is a son of William Fitzgerald Hall and Eola B. (Hatton) Hall. The paternal grandfather of Doctor Hall was William Hervey Hall, who was a native of the State of Vermont and a representative of a staunch old colonial family in New England. In an early day he came to Georgia and became one of the most prominent and influential representatives of the iron industry in this state, as a manufacturer and general founder of iron in the City of Columbus. For many years prior to his death this sterling citizen was one of the prominent and influential business men of the state, and here he and his wife continued to reside until the close of the Civil war, at which period he removed to Rio Janeiro, Brazil, near which place he died.
William F. Hall, father of the doctor, was born in the State of Alabama, the place of his nativity having been the summer home of his parents, situated just across the Chattahoochee River from Columbus, Georgia. His early education was acquired in excellent private schools at Columbus, and this was supplemented by a collegiate course. At the inception of the Civil war he manifested his loyalty to his native Southland by tendering his services in defense of the cause of the Confederate States. He enlisted as a volunteer in a Georgia regiment and served four years, his valiant military career terminating only when the war came to a close and his record showing that he participated in numerous important engagements marking the progress of the long and weary conflict between the states of the North and the South. After the war he earnestly and effectively played his part in revitalizing the prostrate industries of the South, and like his father he became a prominent representative of the iron-manufacturing business, in which he continued his operations at Columbus until he disposed of his interests in that city and removed to Rome, this state, where he developed a substantial business in the operating of an iron foundry and furnace. After a period of twelve years he sold his business at Rome and removed to the City of Atlanta, where he continued as a prominent exponent of the same line of enterprise until 1882. He then removed with his family to Cedartown, where, venerable in years, he is now living retired from active business, secure in the high esteen of all who know him and recognized as one who has contributed much to the industrial development of the great state in which virtually his entire life has been passed. His devoted wife, a native of Georgia, was summoned to eternal rest in 1914, and her memory is revered by all who came within the compass of her gracious influence. Her father was for many years a leading physician and surgeon at Columbus, Georgia, and the Hatton family has been one of exceptional prominence in the annals of Georgia history. Of the seven children born to William V. and Eola B. (Hatton) Hall five are living: Y\7illiam H., who is a civil engineer by profession, is now a resident of Yalaha, Lake County, Florida; Fulton H. is engaged in the iron and wholesale hardware business in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Dr. Henry M., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Arthur W. is engaged in the real estate business in New York City; and Anna is the wife of Alexander W. Birkbeck, a prominent cotton manufacturer of Georgia, their home being at Cedartown. Source: A standard history of Georgia and Georgians, Volume 5 By Lucian Lamar Knight
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1870 - 1926 (56 years)
