Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

JOSEPH H. HALL

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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One of the progressive rancher of Sutter County, Joseph H. Hall was born in 
Canada, near Ontario, August 27, 1863, the son of John E. and Jane Elizabeth 
(Benjamin) Hall, the father a native of Scotland, and the mother a native of 
Canada.  In 1867 the family came to California via Panama, and settled first in 
Contra Costa County, near Benicia, where the father leased farms for a number of 
years.  They next moved to Sacramento County, and there he rented a ranch one 
mile west of Franklin, which became the family home for twelve years.  In 1890 
the family came to Sutter County and rented Frank Walton�s dairy at Yuba City.  
After operating this for a couple of years the father passed away, aged only 
fifty-three years; the mother died aged fifty-four.
The youngest of a family of six children, Joseph H. Hall received his education 
in the Franklin district school, and at the age of sixteen started out to earn 
his own living, working as a ranch hand in Sacramento County and various other 
places.  His marriage, which occurred at Yuba City on December 27, 1897, united 
him with Mrs. Sarah Webb, nee Sarah Rackerby, the widow of Orrin Webb.  She was 
born in Marion County, Ore., the daughter of J. J. and Katherine (Hibbard) 
Rackerby, her father a native of Missouri, and her mother a native of Wisconsin. 
 J. J. Rackerby came across the plains twice, and finally settled in Sutter 
County, in 1873, on the Sutter side of Knights Landing.  He was a physician, and 
practiced in the early days in Oregon; but in later years he became a rancher 
near Knights Landing.  His death occurred at the age of fifty-seven, while the 
mother lived to be seventy-one years old.  Mrs. Hall was the fourth in a family 
of eleven children.
After his marriage, Mr. Hall engaged in ranching two and one-fourth miles north 
of Meridian, where he bought eighteen acres.  Here he does general farming, 
meeting with gratifying success.  He has lived most of his life in this section 
of the State and has first-hand knowledge of local crops and soil conditions.  
Two sons comprise the family of Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Wayne E. and Harvey W.; while 
Mrs. Hall has one daughter by her former marriage, namely, Mrs. Clara Orrina 
(Webb) Farington, the wife of I. E. Farington, a rancher near Sutter, Cal.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 613