History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . organized April, 1870 ; Joseph L. Crowell, ; J. Kearney Smith, Adjt. Meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of eachmonth. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. ALFRED Hall, manufacturer, of Perth Amboy, is aNew Englander by birth, having been born May 22,1803, in Meriden, Conn. On his fathers side he is ofEnglish, and on his mothers side of French ex-traction. Both his father, Avery Hall, and hismother, Sarah Foster, were natives of Connecticut,his father being a farmer at Meriden
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . organized April, 1870 ; Joseph L. Crowell, ; J. Kearney Smith, Adjt. Meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of eachmonth. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. ALFRED Hall, manufacturer, of Perth Amboy, is aNew Englander by birth, having been born May 22,1803, in Meriden, Conn. On his fathers side he is ofEnglish, and on his mothers side of French ex-traction. Both his father, Avery Hall, and hismother, Sarah Foster, were natives of Connecticut,his father being a farmer at Meriden. The earlyeducation of Alfred Hall was obtained iu the publicschools of Meriden. Later he removed with hisparents to Great Barrington, Mass., continuing hisstudies in the schools of that place. At the age ofseventeen he taught .school at the centre of Tyring-ham, Mass. His father owned a large tract of landabout fifty miles southwest of Cleveland, to whichAlfred and his brother Seidon, who is now a residentof Ohio, started for the purpose of clearing off aportion of the timber. They performed the journey. j4f>JLel ^ CITY OF PERTH AMBOY. 639 of seven hundred miles on foot, going by way ofAlbany and Rochester (the latter place being then amere collection of log huts), and thence throughButfalo and Cleveland, reaching their destination amonth after leaving home. Their first work was theerection of a log hut. Three months later the re-mainder of the family joined them, making thejourney in wagons drawn by oxen. The clearing inthe forest now became the family homestead. AlfredHall having a natural aptness for mechanical work,was frequently called upon to help his neighborpioneers in preparing their log homes. Alfred re-mained at home about one year, after which he wentto Silver Springs, Pa., to engage in school-teaching,remaining about two years, when he returned to hisfathers home, built for himself a log cabin near by,and settled down as a permanent citizen of the thenfore
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