William Columbus Hall is postmaster of Black Mountain and is a resident of that city who is widely know throughout this section of the State by his activities as a railway contractor and a general business man.
Mr. Hall was born in McDowell county, North Carolina, April 25, 1855, a son of Elijah and (Marinda) Aline (Biddix) Hall. His father had a farm in McDowell county, and during the war between the states was for four yours a Confederate soldier with Company F. of the Fifty-eighth Regiment of North Carolina.
The limited advantages obtained in the public schools, William C. Hall supplemented by attending Rutherford College. From college work he went almost immediately into railroad construction, part of the time as a sub-contractor. He helped cut some of the tunnels on the Southern Railway along the Asheville branch, and various other lines of that great system. Altogether, Mr. Hall put in about thirty years in railway work.
In 1882 he made his home at Black Mountain in Buncombe county, and in 1900 opened a stock of general merchandise in that town and has been one of the leading merchants there ever since. He was appointed to his first term as postmaster May 26, 1913, and was re appointed for a second term on September 14, 1917.
Mr. Hall's position in the community may be measured by many interests. He is a director of the Commonwealth Bank and a member of its finance committee, and is a director of the Black Mountain Electric Light Company. He is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Dec 25, 1870, he married Miss Sarah Carolina Finley, of McDowell county. Eight children have been born to their marriage: Annie Lillian, Mrs. W. R. Goodson, of Black Mountain: Wilhelmina Cleveland, Mrs. Solomon Evans, of Black Mountain: Maude, Mrs. R. E. Dodson, of Black Mountain: Winford, who married Nora Mizell and is a merchant, real estate dealer and orange grower at DeLand, Florida: James Finley, who is now a lieutenant in the United States Service stationed in the Panama Canal zone: Frank, associated with his father in business: William Newton, in the United States Navy and at present a quartermaster on a merchant ship: and Janet, deceased, who married Ralph Patton of Black Mountain.
Mr. Hall was born in McDowell county, North Carolina, April 25, 1855, a son of Elijah and (Marinda) Aline (Biddix) Hall. His father had a farm in McDowell county, and during the war between the states was for four yours a Confederate soldier with Company F. of the Fifty-eighth Regiment of North Carolina.
The limited advantages obtained in the public schools, William C. Hall supplemented by attending Rutherford College. From college work he went almost immediately into railroad construction, part of the time as a sub-contractor. He helped cut some of the tunnels on the Southern Railway along the Asheville branch, and various other lines of that great system. Altogether, Mr. Hall put in about thirty years in railway work.
In 1882 he made his home at Black Mountain in Buncombe county, and in 1900 opened a stock of general merchandise in that town and has been one of the leading merchants there ever since. He was appointed to his first term as postmaster May 26, 1913, and was re appointed for a second term on September 14, 1917.
Mr. Hall's position in the community may be measured by many interests. He is a director of the Commonwealth Bank and a member of its finance committee, and is a director of the Black Mountain Electric Light Company. He is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Dec 25, 1870, he married Miss Sarah Carolina Finley, of McDowell county. Eight children have been born to their marriage: Annie Lillian, Mrs. W. R. Goodson, of Black Mountain: Wilhelmina Cleveland, Mrs. Solomon Evans, of Black Mountain: Maude, Mrs. R. E. Dodson, of Black Mountain: Winford, who married Nora Mizell and is a merchant, real estate dealer and orange grower at DeLand, Florida: James Finley, who is now a lieutenant in the United States Service stationed in the Panama Canal zone: Frank, associated with his father in business: William Newton, in the United States Navy and at present a quartermaster on a merchant ship: and Janet, deceased, who married Ralph Patton of Black Mountain.
William Columbus Hall is postmaster of Black Mountain and is a resident of that city who is widely know throughout this section of the State by his activities as a railway contractor and a general business man.
Mr. Hall was born in McDowell county, North Carolina, April 25, 1855, a son of Elijah and (Marinda) Aline (Biddix) Hall. His father had a farm in McDowell county, and during the war between the states was for four yours a Confederate soldier with Company F. of the Fifty-eighth Regiment of North Carolina.
The limited advantages obtained in the public schools, William C. Hall supplemented by attending Rutherford College. From college work he went almost immediately into railroad construction, part of the time as a sub-contractor. He helped cut some of the tunnels on the Southern Railway along the Asheville branch, and various other lines of that great system. Altogether, Mr. Hall put in about thirty years in railway work.
In 1882 he made his home at Black Mountain in Buncombe county, and in 1900 opened a stock of general merchandise in that town and has been one of the leading merchants there ever since. He was appointed to his first term as postmaster May 26, 1913, and was re appointed for a second term on September 14, 1917.
Mr. Hall's position in the community may be measured by many interests. He is a director of the Commonwealth Bank and a member of its finance committee, and is a director of the Black Mountain Electric Light Company. He is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Dec 25, 1870, he married Miss Sarah Carolina Finley, of McDowell county. Eight children have been born to their marriage: Annie Lillian, Mrs. W. R. Goodson, of Black Mountain: Wilhelmina Cleveland, Mrs. Solomon Evans, of Black Mountain: Maude, Mrs. R. E. Dodson, of Black Mountain: Winford, who married Nora Mizell and is a merchant, real estate dealer and orange grower at DeLand, Florida: James Finley, who is now a lieutenant in the United States Service stationed in the Panama Canal zone: Frank, associated with his father in business: William Newton, in the United States Navy and at present a quartermaster on a merchant ship: and Janet, deceased, who married Ralph Patton of Black Mountain.
Mr. Hall was born in McDowell county, North Carolina, April 25, 1855, a son of Elijah and (Marinda) Aline (Biddix) Hall. His father had a farm in McDowell county, and during the war between the states was for four yours a Confederate soldier with Company F. of the Fifty-eighth Regiment of North Carolina.
The limited advantages obtained in the public schools, William C. Hall supplemented by attending Rutherford College. From college work he went almost immediately into railroad construction, part of the time as a sub-contractor. He helped cut some of the tunnels on the Southern Railway along the Asheville branch, and various other lines of that great system. Altogether, Mr. Hall put in about thirty years in railway work.
In 1882 he made his home at Black Mountain in Buncombe county, and in 1900 opened a stock of general merchandise in that town and has been one of the leading merchants there ever since. He was appointed to his first term as postmaster May 26, 1913, and was re appointed for a second term on September 14, 1917.
Mr. Hall's position in the community may be measured by many interests. He is a director of the Commonwealth Bank and a member of its finance committee, and is a director of the Black Mountain Electric Light Company. He is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Dec 25, 1870, he married Miss Sarah Carolina Finley, of McDowell county. Eight children have been born to their marriage: Annie Lillian, Mrs. W. R. Goodson, of Black Mountain: Wilhelmina Cleveland, Mrs. Solomon Evans, of Black Mountain: Maude, Mrs. R. E. Dodson, of Black Mountain: Winford, who married Nora Mizell and is a merchant, real estate dealer and orange grower at DeLand, Florida: James Finley, who is now a lieutenant in the United States Service stationed in the Panama Canal zone: Frank, associated with his father in business: William Newton, in the United States Navy and at present a quartermaster on a merchant ship: and Janet, deceased, who married Ralph Patton of Black Mountain.
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