LUTHER A. HALL, Esq., was born August 30, 1813, in Onondaga County, New York. He came to Seneca County in 1833, and was married to Cynthia Hedges, daughter of Josiah Hedges, the founder of Tiffin, April 7, 1835. Their four sons are still living; two of them, Josiah and Albon, the latter a physician, have been living in Japan for some years past. Mr. Hall held the office Clerk of Court of Common Pleas and the Supreme Court of Seneca County from 1834 to 1841; attended a course at the "Cincinnati Law College," graduated, and admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1841 ; served as Prosecuting Attorney of Seneca County from 1856 to 1857; as Internal Revenue Collector for the Ninth Congressional District from 1862 to 1865; was one of the incorporators of the "Toledo, Tiffin and Eastern Railway" in 1867, and elected its first President in 1869, and served as such until completed, and the Presidential Elector of the Ninth District in 1868. Mr. Hall's many and really disinterested labors to promote the varied interests of Tiffin and Seneca County are well known and appreciated by those of his fellow-citizens who are best acquainted with his abilities and his motives.


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