From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 700-701.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


R. W. HALL

R. W. Hall, M. D., a leading physician of Moundsville, was born in 
Carroll county, Md., November 16, 1844, the son of William and Rachel 
A. (Mullineaux) Hall, both natives of Maryland, and the father a 
descendant of Lyman Hall, one of he signers of the Declaration of 
Independence.  The father, Captain William Hall, witnessed the 
breaking of ground for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, helped in its 
completion and ran an engine on the same.  In 1861 he enlisted in the 
Sixth West Virginia regiment as a captain of Company F, and served 
gallantly until 1865.  He took down the first rebel flag that was 
hoisted in Tucker county, and was threatened with death therefor by 
the notorious guerilla, Bill Harper.  At the close of the war, when 
taking some of his men to Wheeling for their pay, a railroad 
collision caused such severe injuries to him that he died seven years 
later, December 10, 1872, at the age of fifty-two years.  His wife, 
who survives, is a member of the Methodist church, to which he also 
belonged.  They had two children.  William H., the younger, is a 
resident of Mannington, of which he has been mayor.  Dr. Hall came to 
Martinsburgh, Va., with his parents, and removed with them to Preston 
county in 1853. He was clerking in a store when the war broke out, 
and on April 1, 1862, he enlisted in his father's company.  
Subsequently he was promoted fifth sergeant, and afterward quarter-
master sergeant of the regiment.  He participated in the battles of 
New Creek, Holly Meadows, Rowlesburg and others, and was wounded at 
Pleasant Run.  Returning home, he attended college at Columbus, Ohio, 
then engaged for a time in the mercantile business and then took up 
his medical studies, which he had pursued since youth.  He graduated 
in the class of 1874, at the university of Maryland, and he 
immediately began the practice at Mannington, W.Va., whence he 
removed to Moundsville in 1883.  Here he has achieved a high standing 
in his profession, and socially.  He is a member of the State and the 
American Medical associations, of the Masonic order and the G.A.R.  
In 1869, he was married to Mary E., daughter of Thomas and Rebecca 
Erwin, of Mannington, and they have had four children: Bertie L., 
Belle, deceased; William E., deceased, and Evangeline.    


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