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From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <>
Subject: BIO: HALL, 1928, Lawrence County
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:04:52 -0500

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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 247-248 w/photo

DESELM A. HALL, Huntington banker, began his career in that city a poor boy
and has made himself a man of influence and substantial means. He is
president of the Twentieth Street Bank of Huntington.
He was born in Lawrence County in Southern Ohio, February 8, 1886, son of
Samuel B. and Eliza E. (Neff) Hall both natives of Ohio, and now living at
Huntington. His paternal grandfather, William D. Hall, was born in Ohio,
where he followed farming. William D. Hall's father moved to Ohio from
Virginia after freeing his slaves. The maternal grandfather, Henry Neff,
was also born in Ohio. Samuel B. Hall was a farmer in Ohio, and after
coming to Huntington took up general contracting, but is now retired. He
served at one time as overseer of the poor and as building inspector. He is
a Republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Fraternal Order of Moose, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and both
he and his wife have been active members of the Methodist Church. They had
six children, four now living: R. W. Hall, manager of the First National
Bank Building at Huntington; Essa E., wife of R. E. Guimm; DeSelm A., and
Vivian H., wife of Charles D. Lewis, a Ford dealer at Milton, West
Virginia.
DeSelm A. Hall obtained his education in the public schools of Huntington
and in Marshall College, and also attended West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Most of his youthful working experience was on a farm. In 1903, at the age
of seventeen, he went to work for the Union Rail Company, remaining one
year. He left that to take up banking and for twenty years was in the
service of the West Virginia National Bank, which institution consolidated
with the First Nation Bank, in which he rose to the position of assistant
cashier. This bank later consolidated with the First Huntington National
Bank. In October, 1925, Mr. Hall went with the Twentieth Street Bank of
Huntington, and is now the largest stockholder as well as the president of
that institution. He is also interested in the Lewis-Hall Motor Company,
and does considerable business in real estate.
He married, in 1910, Miss Lillian Carrie Moore, who was born at Buckhannon,
West Virginia, and was educated there in West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall have one daughter, Mildred Louise, born September 7,
1918. They are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and he is a
Republican in politics.

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