Arthur Coleman Hall
History of
Kentucky and Kentuckians, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version,
Vol. III, pp. 1271-72. (Campbell County)
An essentially loyal and public-spirited citizen and a representative member of
the bar of Kentucky, Arthur Coleman Hall is well upholding the prestige of the
honored name which he bears and has gained distinctive precedence as an able and
versatile trial lawyer, well versed
in the science of jurisprudence.
He was born in Clark county, Kentucky, on the 2nd of September, 1873, a son of George C. and Mary E. (Hall) Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Hall bore the same name but were not related. The former is a native of Henry county, Kentucky, whither his parents came from Virginia, and the latter is a native of Clark county, her ancestors being of North Carolina stock.
Joshua F. Hall, paternal grandfather of Arthur C. Hall, emigrated from the Old Dominion commonwealth to Kentucky shortly after the organization of Kentucky as a state in 1792. He located on a farm in Henry county, where his marriage was solemnized and where he continued to reside during the residue of his life. He was a staunch Methodist and spent much time and money in furthering the interests of the church, holding camp-meetings and doing all in his power toward the conversion of his fellow men.
George C. Hall, father of him to whom this sketch is dedicated, was reared and educated in Henry county and has spent practically his entire life thus far in his native state. He resided in Putnam county, Indiana, and he also live in various counties in Kentucky. During the major portion of his active business career he was engaged in farming and he was also largely interested in contracting and building. He is now living virtually retired from active participation in business affairs and maintains his home in the city of Newport, having there resided for the past twenty years. He has attained to the venerable age of seventy-eight years, and his wife is in her seventy-first year.
Mary E. Hall is
a daughter of James Hall, who was born in Clark county and whose parents
were natives of North Carolina and pioneer Kentuckians. Representatives of this
fine old family served in the war of the Revolution, the war of 1812 and in the
Civil war, being members of the Confederate army in the latter conflict.
George C. and Mary E Hall became the parents of five children, all of whom are
living, the subject of this review being the
fourth in order of birth.
Arthur Coleman Hall has passed most of his life thus
far in Campbell County and his preliminary educational advantages were such as
were afforded in the private and public schools of this county. In 1896 he
entered the law office of Aubry Barber, at Newport, and in 1897, he was
matriculated in the Cincinnati Law School, in the city of Cincinnati, in which
excellent institution he studied for two years. He was admitted to the bar
at Newport in 1898, and he immediately thereafter initiated the practice of his
profession in the city of Covington, in partnership with R. H. Gray.
In 1890 he established his home in Bellevue, and he has built up a large and representative clientage in Newport and gained recognition as an able and well-fortified counselor. Mr. Hall is a loyal Democrat in his political proclivities and he has always taken an active interest in the local councils of the party. He has never manifested aught of desire for the honors or emoluments of public office but has devoted himself most assiduously to the demands of his profession.
As a citizen he is enterprising and progressive and he has contributed in no small measure to the civic and material development of his home county. He is a man of large ideas and broad information and holds a secure place in popular confidence and esteem. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.