A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . a fair educa-tion. Starting out for himself at the age of twenty-one years. Nathan Hall went to Iowa via Missouriand bought a tract of land near Granville, Ma-iiaska county, where he engaged in raising comand cattle. Later he sold there and went to Car-roll county. Mo., where he bought a farm andengaged in raising stock. On selling that prop-erty he turned his attention to the manufactureof cloth and blankets in a woolen mill, nearIvirksvi
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . a fair educa-tion. Starting out for himself at the age of twenty-one years. Nathan Hall went to Iowa via Missouriand bought a tract of land near Granville, Ma-iiaska county, where he engaged in raising comand cattle. Later he sold there and went to Car-roll county. Mo., where he bought a farm andengaged in raising stock. On selling that prop-erty he turned his attention to the manufactureof cloth and blankets in a woolen mill, nearIvirksville, Mo., but the price of wool, which hadbeen very high, dropped suddenly and ruined himfinancially. Forced to begin anew, and withoutthe nieans necessary to buy a farm, he decidedto turn to railroading. In 1875 he secured worknear Kirksville with the ^^abash Railroad Com-pany as a section hand. It was customary thento work four years before being made foreman,but his work proved so satisfactory that in four-teen months he was promoted to be foreman of asection. Coming to California in 1887 Mr. Hall set-tled in San Diego and secured employment witli. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1045 the Southern CaHfornia Railroad Company astrack foreman in the yards. After two years hewas appointed assistant roadmaster under O. and continued in that capacity until 1896,when he was appointed roadmaster in charge ofthe division from National City to Orange (onehundred miles), including the branches to Es-condido (twenty-two miles) and Fallbrook(eighteen miles), making a total of one hundredand forty miles under his supervision. Thoroughlyfamiliar with the details connected with railroad-ing, he has proved an experienced and capableman in the business and has shown himself to betrustworthy and painstaking. For some years helias been a member of the Roadmasters Main-tenance of Way Association of the United Statesand Canada, ?nd when their convention was heldat Niagara Falls, N. Y
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