... DONALD A HALL secretary treasurer and general manager of the Portland Forge and Foundry Company and long recognized as one of the active figures in the industrial life of that city was born at Portland and has lived there all his life with the exception of the time spent in college and a period of four years spent in Washington where he was serving as private secretary to John AM Adair, former representative in Congress from this district. Mr Hall was born on September 3 1885 and is a son of George W and Helen M Poor Hall, the former well known for his many years of connection with the loan and insurance business at Portland. Reared at Portland, Donald A Hall completed the course in the high school there and then took a course at DePauw University supplementing this by a course at Cornell University after which for four years he served as secretary to Congressman Adair. He then became associated with his father George W Hall in the insurance and loan business at Portland and thus engaged until 1913 when he became associated with the operations of the Portland Foundry and Machine Company. When this company in 1915 was reorganized as the Portland Forge and Foundry Company, Mr Hall was elected secretary and treasurer of the company and has since been serving in that capacity, the other members of the company being JA Long, president, CC Cartwright, vice president, and Clara J Holmes and Charles E Schwartz. Mr Hall is a Democrat, is a Freemason, a Kiwanian, a member of the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.
On November 30 1909 Donald A Hall was united in marriage to Vadia M Holmes who also was born at Portland a daughter of LG and Clara J Creager Holmes and to this union two children have been born Helen and Lee. Mr and Mrs Hall have a very pleasant home at Portland and have ever taken an interested part in the general social activities of their home town.
