Imperial County, CA Biographies

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007.

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ALMON A. HALL
 
                   Prominent among the wide-awake and progressive business men 
of Calipatria, is Almon A. Hall, proprietor of the Calipatria Drug Company. Mr. 
Hall came to the county in April, 1914. He was born in Woodstock, Ontario, 
Canada, February 17, 1884, a son of Asa and Matilda (Irwin) Hall. Mr. Hall's 
father is now serving as deputy city auditor of Los Angeles, and his mother 
passed away in Los Angeles and is buried in the Hollywood Cemetery. The 
ancestors of Mr. Hall are of old Scotch origin, and his forefathers were among 
the first to settle in Canada. Almon A. acquired his education in the Azusa, 
California, public schools, graduating from the high school of that place in 
1903. For three years he took charge of his father's orange grove. From 1906 to 
1914 Mr. Hall was secretary to Percy H. Clark of Los Angeles. In 1914 he came to 
Imperial County and served as secretary to the manager of the Imperial Farm Land 
Association. He is a man of culture and talent, whose mind has been broadened by 
coming in contact with men of affairs. Mr. Hall has made most judicious 
investments in the valley and in addition to being proprietor of the Calipatria 
Drug Company, he farms eighty acres of valuable land on which he grows cotton 
and corn. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic lodge, holding membership 
in Arlington Lodge of Los Angeles. He is a member of the Scottish Rite of 
Imperial Valley. Both in his business and agricultural pursuits, Mr. Hall is 
carrying on his labors after the most approved modern methods, and is meeting 
with well deserved success.
 
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California," Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 
1918,
pp. 381-382.