U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hall, Moses Smith (1824-1905) --------------------------------------------------------------------- American Medical Biographies (1920) by Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage Baltimore, The Norman, Remington Company, 1920 Page 481, Moses Smith Hall Moses Hall was born at Hawley, Massachusetts, March 1, 1824, and died at Parkersburg, West Virginia, April 9, 1905. Dr. Hall came to Ritchie County, West Virginia, in 1844, and read medicine with Dr. (Gen.) Thomas M. Harris, of Harrisville, and attended the Louisville Medical University. He held an arduous country practice in Harrisville up to 1861, and in 1861 recruited a company for service in the Union Service, serving as its captain until May, 1862, when he was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel of the tenth Regiment of West Virginia Volunteers; was twice wounded and on his discharge in April, 1865, resumed practice at Harrisville, where he became the leading practitioner, also serving in the Legislature of 1874, and while there introducting a bill to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in West Virginia. It was defeated and such action delayed until 1881. He was a member of the West Virginia State Medical Society, and its president in 1874. In 1850 he married Ellen F. Sampson of Athens, Ohio. Two daughters survived. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1860 Census, Ritchie County (W)Va Harrisville, Page No. 54 Lines 29-31, Enum-Dwelling #382, Enum-Family #364 HALL, Moses S., 36, Doctor, $1500/$3000, Mass ", Ellen S., 35, O. ", Adda S., 5, Va 1870 Census, Ritchie County WV Town of Harrisville, Page No. 4 Lines 8-14, Enum-Dwelling #29, Enum-Family #23 HALL, Moses S., 46, Physician, $5000/$1000, Mass ", Ellen S., 44, Keeping house, Ohio ", Addie S., 15, Va(now WVa) ", Samuel, 4, WV ", Agnes G., 1, WV SAMPSON, Mercy, 71, Retired Keepinghouse, Mass SWINETTE, Frances, 24, Domestic-Servant, Va(now WVa) 1880 Census, Ritchie County WV Union District (west side), ED:149, Page No. 3 Lines 1-5, Enum-Dwelling #22, Enum-Family #23 HALL, M. S., 56, Physician, Mass-Mass-Mass ", Ellen S. (wife), 56, Keeping house, OH-Mass-Mass ", Samuel W. (son), 14, Student, WV-Mass-OH ", A. Grace (dau), 9, WV-Mass-OH KIRKPATRICK, Martha (servant), 22, Va-??-Va 1900 Census, Ritchie County WV Union District, Harrisville, ED:92, Sheet 10B Lines 61-69, North Street, Enum-Dw #188, Enum-Fam #193 PATTON, B. F. (head) Jan-1843, 57, M-25yrs, WV-WV-WV, Landlord ", E. B. (wife) Feb-1848, 52, 4-children/3-living, WV-WV-WV ", W. E. (son) Dec-1875, 24, S, WV-WV-WV, Farmer ", B. F. Jr. (son) Dec-1878, 21, S, WV-WV-WV, at school ", Gordie C. (son) May-1887, 13, S, WV-WV-WV, at school COLLINS, Lona (servant) Dec-1876, 23, WV-WV-WV GRINTER, Phil (boarder) May-1876, 24, S, Ky-Ky-Ky HALL, M. S. (boarder) Mar-1874, 76, Wid, Mass-Mass-Mass ", Grace M. (boarder) Jun-1869, 30, S, WV-Mass-Ohio --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------