Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Shelby Co.

WILLIAM H. HALL a native of Shelby County, Ky., was born September 15,
1841, and is a son of the late Col. Bartlett M. and Ann A. (Offutt) Hall,
both born in Scott County about 1827, was an extensive farmer, an elder
in the Presbyterian Church, a director of the Shelbyville Bank, and died
August 20, 1870.  William H. Hall is well known throughout the country as
a breeder of Shorthorn cattle, having commenced in 1868.  He has put more
money into the business than any other man in Shelby County, having paid
as high as $850 for a single female, and $1,050 for a male.  Some of the
best Shorthorns ever shown in Kentucky have been bred or imported by him.
About five years ago he formed a partnership with his neighbor, M. W. B.
Dale, and the name of Hall & Dale became at once among the best known in
Kentucky, because of the show herds they led into the fair rings in the
blue-grass section, and the many premiums they won.  They sold in two
months, in 1885, forty head of Shorthorns to their countrymen, and their
sales were quite extensive all over the West.  This firm was only recently
dissolved, and Mr. Hall became sole proprietor of his Wicklow herd of
Mary, Phyllis and other good families, headed by Baron Wily 3d.  Mr. Hall
has served on the board of the Shelby County A. & M. Association, always
giving the earnest attention to the duties that he does to his private
business.  He is an influential member of the Shelby County Shorthorn
Breeders' Association.  In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a
Presbyterian.  His farm of 760 acres is pleasantly located, adjoining the
western limits of Shelbyville, and well improved in every way.  William H.
Hall was married, October 24, 1865, to Miss Margaret A. Payne, daughter of
Col. Edward C. Payne, and Margaret D. Harbison.  Col. Payne, when a young
man, came from Fayette County to Shelby County, Ky., where he died in 1863,
aged seventy years.  His mother was a daughter of Col. John Howard.  His
grandmother a sister of John Preston, of Virginia.  The long and honored
line of his ancestry, of Revolutionary memory, was identified with the
history of Virginia; and his grandfather, Howard, early immigrated to
Kentucky as one of its pioneers.  Margaret D. Harbison was a daughter of
Col. Samuel Harbison.  Mrs. Hall has two sisters, Mrs. Dr. J. W. Dodd, of
Nashville, Tenn., and Mrs. J. S. Harbison, of Kansas City, Mo.  The
children born to Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hall are named as follows: Edward
Payne Hall, William Howard Hall, Bartlett M. Hall, Curtis Preston Hall,
Margaret Payne Hall, William Dodd Hall and Mary Davis Hall.

Hall Offutt Dale Payne Harbison Howard Preston Dodd
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Scott-KY Fayette-KY VA TN MO

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