Tulare County Biographies

ALBERT A. HALL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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There are probably few men known more widely or more affectionately in Tulare 
county than Albert A. ("Dad") Hall, of Tulare. A native of Watertown, N. Y., he 
was born July 6, 1846. While he was yet quite young, his family moved to 
Baraboo, Wis., where he was brought up and educated so far as he could be before 
he went away to the war between the North and the South. That was in 1863, when 
he was but seventeen. He enlisted in Company. F, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, which 
regiment was under command of Colonel Barstow, and saw arduous service, 
principally in guerilla warfare in Missouri and Arkansas, till he was mustered 
out at Leavenworth, Kans., June 27, 1865. Returning to Wisconsin, he was 
interested in hop raising there two years, then went to Nebraska and took up 
some government land. The grasshoppers were so numerous, however, that after 
five years filled with attempts to save from them enough for his absolute 
personal needs, to say nothing of improving a farm, he gladly turned his face 
toward California. He arrived in February, 1877, and bought a hundred and sixty 
acres of land near Forestville, Sonoma county, which he cleared of trees and 
planted to a vineyard which yielded him grapes for seven years. In 1888 he came 
to Tulare county and, settling on forty acres north of Tulare city, engaged in 
the dairy business and sold milk in Tulare fifteen years. Two years during that 
period he fed cattle in the mountains. In 1904 he established at Tulare City an 
express and transfer business, which, under the half jocular title of Dad's 
Transfer Company, has come to be one of the popular institutions of the town. In 
this well established enterprise his son, Rozelle E. Hall, is his partner.
Naturally, Mr. Hall is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Thus he keeps 
alive memories of the days of the Civil war in which he was a faithful, if a 
very young, soldier. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member also of Tulare Lodge No. 
269, Free and Accepted Masons. With Forestville Lodge No. 320, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows he affiliates also. He married Miss Adilla Plummer, a native of 
Wisconsin, in 1867, and they have children, Rozelle E., Carrie (wife of J. E. 
Robidoux, Eda (Mrs. F. A. Thomas, of Tulare), Beryl and Edna.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 618-619