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Thomas Jefferson Hall

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Thomas Jefferson Hall

Birth
Onondaga County, New York, USA
Death
17 Mar 1871 (aged 39)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Sect 9 lot 34
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Hall was a wealthy Syracuse merchant who moved to New Orleans c.a. 1858 after a brief foray to California and started a wholesale wine, liquor and cigar business. In 1861 he reorganized as a liquor and fancy grocery business (e.g. canned and bottled goods versus unprocessed staples), but that ended when the war started. Hall fought for the South in the conflict and attained the rank of Major. After the war he started the First National Chemical Works Company of Louisiana (incorp. June 11, 1866) , which used a patented process of extracting oil, turpentine, alcohol, pitch, illuminating gas and other chemicals from pine timber. The company sought to manufacture chemicals and also license the process to others. In 1869 he became vice president of the Mississippi Valley Navigation Company of the South and West, a corporation building low pressure steamboats and speculating on land in Louisiana and Texas. He shared a seat on the Board of the latter with George F. Brott (1825-1902) who he also joined on the Board of the infamous New Orleans and Ship Island Canal Co. c.a. 1869. He resigned and sold his shares before the company fell into the hands of a notorious gang of NY speculators.

His death certificate says he died from a stomach ulcer.
Hall was a wealthy Syracuse merchant who moved to New Orleans c.a. 1858 after a brief foray to California and started a wholesale wine, liquor and cigar business. In 1861 he reorganized as a liquor and fancy grocery business (e.g. canned and bottled goods versus unprocessed staples), but that ended when the war started. Hall fought for the South in the conflict and attained the rank of Major. After the war he started the First National Chemical Works Company of Louisiana (incorp. June 11, 1866) , which used a patented process of extracting oil, turpentine, alcohol, pitch, illuminating gas and other chemicals from pine timber. The company sought to manufacture chemicals and also license the process to others. In 1869 he became vice president of the Mississippi Valley Navigation Company of the South and West, a corporation building low pressure steamboats and speculating on land in Louisiana and Texas. He shared a seat on the Board of the latter with George F. Brott (1825-1902) who he also joined on the Board of the infamous New Orleans and Ship Island Canal Co. c.a. 1869. He resigned and sold his shares before the company fell into the hands of a notorious gang of NY speculators.

His death certificate says he died from a stomach ulcer.

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