[1] On July 2, 1851, he married Lucinda Atherton, a native of Goffstown, New Hampshire who came to Saugus as a child when she was adopted by relative Jacob Newhall following her mother's death.
[5] That same year, Governor John Albion Andrew appointed Hall to the position of state prison inspector.
In 1875 he was appointed to the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls board of trustees by Governor William Gaston.
[8][9] Hall worked as a grocery store clerk until entering the shoe manufacturing business in the office of Thomas Raddin.
[11] Hall was also a founder and longtime president of the Saugus Mutual Fire Insurance Company.