Jonas Galutia Hall

• Born: 12 Jun 1822, Calais VT
• Marriage: Caroline Amanda Curtiss on 7 Mar 1846 in Calais VT
• Died: aft 1889

  General notes:

Jeweler and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed c 1835 to Samuel Abbott in Montpelier VT
  

• He worked from circa 1838 to 1841 as a watchmaker in Boston MA

• He worked from circa 1842 to 1848 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Montpelier VT

• He was a partner from 1848 to 1851 with Ira Strong Towne in Montpelier VT as TOWN & HALL. ⁸

• He worked from 1851 to 1852 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Montpelier VT ⁸

• He worked from 1852 to 1863 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Montpelier VT with the firm of PHINNEY & MEAD, who had bought out both his and his old partner's business. ⁸

• He worked from 1873 to 1889 as a jeweler and watchmaker Roxbury VT Roxbury VT manufaturing both watches and watchmaker's tools from a factory opposite the train depot. By 1885, the firm was employing 12 men, mostly involved in the tool trade, especially a watchmaker's staking form of Hall's invention. ⁸

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Roxbury VT, listed as a manufacturer of watch tools.

Jonas married Caroline Amanda Curtiss on 7 Mar 1846 in Calais VT. (Caroline Amanda Curtiss was born on 23 Sep 1823 in Calais VT.)