"Solomon H. Hale was born at Quincy, Illinois, April 30, 1839, a son of Jonathan H. and Olive (Boynton) Hale. He accompanied his parents to Nauvoo, Illinois, then the headquarters of the Latter Day Saints, in which church Jonathan H. Hale became a high dignitary, a bishop. The annals of Illinois preserve the records of many events that have marred the fair escutcheon of that state and perhaps none of more human interest than that concerned with the mobbings and drivings of a religious body from Nauvoo in 1846. During these troubles the life of Bishop Hale, together with those of his wife and two daughters were sacrificed. Through this tragedy four children, three sons and one daughter, were left orphans and practically helpless. Solomon H. Hale came West to Utah with the other pioneers in 1848. He headed an exploring party into Bear river valley in 1856 and into Bear lake valley in 1857, and in 1861 he was engaged in breaking horses for the Pony Express Company. In 1862 he enlisted in the famous volunteer expedition sent out by President Lincoln to set up telegraph stations and lines which had been demolished by Indians and their operators killed. In recognition of this service, which history records as one of the most hazardous expeditions in the annals of local Indian Warfare, Mr. Hale was placed upon the pension roll and has been appointed senior vice commander of the John Quincy Knowlton Post, which was organized in 1911. Solomon H. Hale settled in Bear Lake county in 1865. moving to Soda Springs in 1872, and from there to Thatcher in 1875, being engaged there extensively in the stock business and in the mercantile line at Soda Springs. In 1890 Mr. Hale and family moved to Preston, in Oneida county, where he has served one term as mayor and also served a term as county commissioner of Oneida county. He continues a high church official and served as high counsellor in Bear Lake county, as bishop of Thatcher and for twenty-three years in the presidency of the Oneida Stake. For over sixteen years he was a member of the Board of Education of the Oneida Stake Academy, the construction of which institution he personally superintended. In 1907 he retired from business and public activities to his city home in Preston". [From the biography of Heber Quincy Hale, History of Idaho: a narrative account of its historical progress..., Volume 3 by Hiram Taylor French (1914)]
"Solomon H. Hale was born at Quincy, Illinois, April 30, 1839, a son of Jonathan H. and Olive (Boynton) Hale. He accompanied his parents to Nauvoo, Illinois, then the headquarters of the Latter Day Saints, in which church Jonathan H. Hale became a high dignitary, a bishop. The annals of Illinois preserve the records of many events that have marred the fair escutcheon of that state and perhaps none of more human interest than that concerned with the mobbings and drivings of a religious body from Nauvoo in 1846. During these troubles the life of Bishop Hale, together with those of his wife and two daughters were sacrificed. Through this tragedy four children, three sons and one daughter, were left orphans and practically helpless. Solomon H. Hale came West to Utah with the other pioneers in 1848. He headed an exploring party into Bear river valley in 1856 and into Bear lake valley in 1857, and in 1861 he was engaged in breaking horses for the Pony Express Company. In 1862 he enlisted in the famous volunteer expedition sent out by President Lincoln to set up telegraph stations and lines which had been demolished by Indians and their operators killed. In recognition of this service, which history records as one of the most hazardous expeditions in the annals of local Indian Warfare, Mr. Hale was placed upon the pension roll and has been appointed senior vice commander of the John Quincy Knowlton Post, which was organized in 1911. Solomon H. Hale settled in Bear Lake county in 1865. moving to Soda Springs in 1872, and from there to Thatcher in 1875, being engaged there extensively in the stock business and in the mercantile line at Soda Springs. In 1890 Mr. Hale and family moved to Preston, in Oneida county, where he has served one term as mayor and also served a term as county commissioner of Oneida county. He continues a high church official and served as high counsellor in Bear Lake county, as bishop of Thatcher and for twenty-three years in the presidency of the Oneida Stake. For over sixteen years he was a member of the Board of Education of the Oneida Stake Academy, the construction of which institution he personally superintended. In 1907 he retired from business and public activities to his city home in Preston". [From the biography of Heber Quincy Hale, History of Idaho: a narrative account of its historical progress..., Volume 3 by Hiram Taylor French (1914)]
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