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of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of
the Mayflower Society. He was a thirtysecond
degree Mason.
Mr. Hall was a member of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Protestant Epis-
copal, and was senior warden of the
church. Loyalty to the highest, as he
knew it, was a keynote to the character
of the man, and it was to be seen in his
business relations, his contact with the
community-at-large and in his social con-
nections. Able and upright as a business
man, he was a still more potent factor in
the life of his time through a personality
which set the highest ideals before the
vision of his fellows and then went to
work to attain them. He would have
said that he did not reach that for which
he strove, but the common consensus of
the community was that here was a man
who had accomplished his aims.
Mr. Hall married, February 9, 1870,
Sarah G. Loines, of New York, who was
descended from Quaker stock on her
father's side and also from the family of
Hopkins of Rhode Island. Her ancestor,
Stephen Hopkins, was a very prominent
citizen of Rhode Island during the Revo-
lutionary period. He was chief justice of
the Court of Common Pleas, and also of
the Superior Court, governor of Rhode
Island, and speaker of the House of Rep-
resentatives. He was twice elected to the
Continental Congress at Philadelphia, and
was one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Hall had
four children, two of whom are still liv-
ing, Clarence Loines and Grace Loines.
Mr. Hall died June 25, 1902, after an
illness of about three weeks, and many
tributes were paid to his memory and to
the sense of the loss the community had
sustained. Among the expressions of
sympathy were resolutions passed by the
Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing
Company, the Brainerd, Shaler & Hall
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Quarry Company, the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Trinity Parish, of Port-
land, Connecticut, the Men's League of
the Church of the Good Shepherd, of
which he was president, the Phoenix Life
Insurance Company, the Manufacturers'
Governor Company, and the Hartford Na-
tional Bank, besides a number of others.
That of the Colt's Company read as fol-
lows:
The Hon. John H. Hall, president of this com-
pany, having died on June 25, 1902,
We, the members of the board of directors of
the Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Com-
pany, deem it fitting and proper to enter on the
records of this company, and hereby order to
be so entered, this expression of our appreciation
of his exceptional ability as a financier and
manager; of his invaluable services to this insti-
tution, covering a period of fourteen years, during
which time its affairs have become more
firmly established than ever before ; of his sym-
pathy and geniality as a business associate; and,
finally of his high character as a man.
And, furthermore, we order that a copy of this
vote be suitably engrossed, as a token of high
esteem and as an expression of our sympathy for
those who mourn his loss from their family circle.
The Colt's Patent Fire Arms
Manufacturing Company.
The following is the tribute of the
Brainerd, Shaler & Hall Quarry Com-
pany:
At a meeting of the board of directors of the
Brainerd, Shaler & Hall Quarry Company, held
this day the following minute was adopted:
The directors of the company realize the great
loss sustained by the death of the president, the
Hon. John H. Hall, who died in the city of Hart-
ford, June 25, 1902, and desire to record their
high appreciation of his eminent ability, his tire-
less energy, honesty of purpose, and his steadfast
friendship, and wish to convey to his fam-
ily their most profound sympathy and sorrow in
their deep affliction. Since the organization of
this corporation he has been our president and
our friend. We miss his guiding hand, which was
ever ready to do the right. We miss his genial
presence, his generous disposition, and his wise
counsel. He was true, loyal, careful and con-