Hall worked at a Hoboken, New Jersey shipyard as a general draftsman for fifteen months[1] before becoming a cadet engineer in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service on 21 October 1907.

[2] While serving there, he discussed the possibility of using aircraft to aid search and rescue missions with his commander Captain Benjamin M. Chiswell and Third Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone.

With Chiswell's encouragement, Commandant Ellsworth P. Bertholf sent Hall to study aircraft design, construction and maintenance[3] at the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company factory in Hammondsport, New York on 31 October 1916.

In August 1942, Hall was given the additional assignment of Coast Guard liaison to the Facility Security Division of the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator for War.

He had remarried with a widow, Gladys Marsh Footner, in 1954 and they were living in Chevy Chase, Maryland at the time of his death.