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1691. Their third son, born in September,
1658, in Middletown, died March 14, 1740.
He married, December 6, 1683, Phoebe
Ward, born May 17, 1663, eldest daughter
of WilHam and Phoebe Ward, died May
14, 1741. Their eldest son, Samuel Hall,
born November 25, 1696, married (second),
August 26, 1731, Abigail Starr, born
October 10, 171 1, eldest daughter of
Joseph and Abigail (Bolton) Starr, granddaughter
of Comfort Starr, founder of the
family in Middletown (see Starr). Her
eldest child, fourth son of Samuel, was
Samuel Hall (3), born August 20, 1732,
married May 7, 1755, Lois Alvord, born
April I, 1736, third daughter of Thomas
and Submit Alvord. Thomas Alvord,
born August 28, 1683, was a son of
Thomas and Joanna (Taylor) Alvord,
grandson of Alexander Alvord of Windsor,
who came from Somersetshire, England.
Jonathan Hall, second son of Samuel
and Lois (Alvord) Hall, born March
14, 1767, died in 1863, married Catherine
Savage and was the father of Hannah
Blake Hall, wife of Daniel Minor Bacon,
as above noted. For many years he was
engaged in business in Middletown, first
in the firm of Montague & Hall, later
many years independently.
LeRoy Minor Tucker, son of Henry
V. and Clara C. (Bacon) Tucker, was bom
June 19, 1877, in the house in which he
now resides, in the eastern part of the
Westfield district, where he has ever
since resided. He attended the district
school of Staddle Hill and the Middletown
High School and was subsequently
a student at the State Agricultural College
at Storrs, Connecticut, from which
he graduated in 1896. He settled on the
home farm and has had very few vacations.
He engages in general farming and
participates himself in the labors incident
to his business. He has done much
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work upon the roads. For twenty-two
years he peddled milk in Middletown, and
since he ceased that occupation, he has
engaged largely in grain growing. In
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1921 he produced one hundred acres of
small grains. He engaged quite exten-
sively in the construction of silos and is
always busy. He is a member of Mattabessett
Grange of Middletown, in which
he has served as assistant steward, and
of Apollo Lodge, No. 33, Knights of
Pythias. He is also a member of the
North Church of Middletown. A Republican
in politics he has ever refused to be
a candidate for office, and devotes him-
self to the demands of his extensive busi-
ness.
He married, August 10, 1905, Ida D.
Scoville, born in Maromas, daughter of
Frank S. and Harriett (McKenstry) Sco-
ville. They have no children.
PASCALL, Richard Henry,
Manufacturer.
At the head of the leading manufactur-
ing industry of Portland, of which he has
been many years manager, and as citizen
of undoubted patriotism and moral worth,
Captain Pascall enjoys the confidence and
esteem of all who are privileged to know
him. He was born October 6, 1841, in
Fenton, Staffordshire, England, a son of
Richard and Margaret (Pickering) Pas-
call. The father, born in 1800, died in
England in 1844. He was a man of un-
usual mechanical skill, the only one of his
father's family to exhibit such ability, and
the son inherited some of this talent.
Margaret Pickering, wife of Richard Pas-
call and aunt of the late Thomas R. Pickering,
founder of the Pickering Governor
works, was a woman of remarkable char-
acter. Left with seven children to care
for, by the early death of her husband,