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1753, and died May 25, 1818. He married,
May 29, 1774, Hannah, daughter of George
and Hannah Ranney, of Chatham, Con-
necticut. They were the parents of Jesse,
of further mention.
(VII) Jesse Hall, son of Joel and Hannah
(Ranney) Hall, was born in Chatham,
Connecticut, June 28, 1787. He married
there, June 4, 1808, Harriet Cheney, who
was born July 31, 1787, and died May 24,
1827, daughter of Captain Daniel and
Julia (Cornwall) Cheney. They were the
parents of Joel, of further mention.
(VIII) Joel (2) Hall, son of Jesse
and Harriet (Cheney) Hall, was born in
Cromwell, Connecticut, March 15, 1814,
and died January 19, 1850. He married,
December 12, 1836, Eliza Ann Stocking,
born April 15, 181 1, daughter of David
Stocking. They were the parents of Jesse,
of further mention.
(IX) Jesse (2) Hall, son of Joel (2)
and Eliza Ann (Stocking) Hall, was born
in 1840, and lived at Portland, where he
married Clara E. Stewart, daughter of
Henry Stewart. They were the parents
of two sons: 1. Stephen Stocking, of fur-
ther mention. 2. Joel Stewart, born April
29, 1866. in Portland, Connecticut ; prominent
in business circles in Portland, and
associated with various town industries
member of Warren Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, the Republican party, and
clerk of Trinity Church Parish of Port-
land.
(X) Stephen Stocking Hall, son of
Jesse (2) and Clara E. (Stewart) Hall,
was born in Portland, Connecticut, January
18, 1864. He was educated at the Seabury
Institute of Saybrook, Connecticut,
where his family were living in 1870.
They removed again to Portland in 1880,
and he attended the high school at Middletown.
In 1881 he entered the employ
of T. R. Pickering & Company, of Portland,
Connecticut, as a clerk. Through
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his industry and attention to the details
of his business, Mr. Hall rose rapidly,
until in 1888 he was elected secretary,
upon the organization of the firm as The
Pickering Governor Company, and is
now, 1919, treasurer of the company. He
has continued in the association with this
firm to the present time, and is well
known among business men of the vicin-
ity. Mr. Hall was a director of the City
Savings Bank of Middletown, and now
holds the office of trustee with that insti-
tution, and is a director of the Freestone
Savings Bank, of Portland. A Republican
in political principle, he takes an active
interest in municipal affairs, although not
a seeker for office. He is a member of the
Hartford Club, the Hartford Automobile
Club, the Lincoln Farm Association, the
National Geographical Society of Washington,
D. C, the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and Warren Lodge,
No. 51, Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Hall was married, September 5,
1888, to Marie Ella Pascall, a daughter of
Richard Henry Pascall, born October 13,
1865. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are attendants
at the Protestant Episcopal church, of
Portland, of which he is a vestryman.
WHITNEY, William Hiram,
Man of Large Affairs.
Arms—Azure, a cross chequy, or and sable.
Crest—A bull's head coupled sable, armed ar-
gent, the points gules.
Motto—Magnomimeter crucem sustine.
For Whitney as a surname, one must
go back to the ancient parish of Whitney
on the western border of Herefordshire,
near the boundary between England and
Wales.
From Henry Whitney, the American
ancestor, the record shows twenty-one
generations direct to Sir Daldwinus de
Whitney, and from him five generations