The Press., 1888-07-19
wILLGNGTON.
Cnrreanlondence.

Cleo. Fl. Shows continued i'll health compelled his return from Haverhill, Mass. In the pursuit of some light out door em- ployment he hopes to become restored
 Ed. Jones. recently an inmate of the aims house, died last week
 Do not forget the young peoples ice I cream entertainment at the Town hall next Monday night. It promises to be quite attractive and to draw crowd.
 Rev. David Breed of West Stafford has received call from the Congregation al society. We do not learn what his de- cision is.
 Miss Carrie B. Dimock returned home from New York last week for two months vacation. She was accompanied from Grot- on by Mrs. Lydia Buddington, who is vis- iting at A. D. Dimocks.
 Friends here on Tuesday received no- tice of the funeral of Origen Hall, a long time resident of Wilmington, which was held at his late residence in Willimantic this forenoon. "Uncle Origen" will be sincerely mourned, especially by his nephsws and nieces, for whom he always had a kind and cheerful word and cordial welcome at his pleasant home in Willing ton and later in Willimantic. We copy the following obituary from the Courant correspondence
 MT. Origen Hall died at his home Mon- day at 6 a. m, He was born in Mansfield December 4, 1906. During his boyhood his parents removed to Coventry and some time after to Willimantic, where he en- gagged with the Windham Manufacturing company as spinner, working in the same room for sixteen years. Among the hands working nnder him was Colonel Robert Hooper. March 23, 1929, he. married Miss Salina Preston of Wilmington, by whom he had one daughter, Mrs. Timothy Merrick of Holyoke, Mass. Mir. Hall was a pio- neer in the thread b0siness& and Williman- tic owes largely to him her success in this great industry. In 1840 he went to Will lington, where he engaged in the thread manufacture with Elisha Johnson, Otis Dimock and others, under the name of the Willington Thread company, thus laying the foundation of the widely known thread business at South Wilmington. He re- mained in business there about twenty years and sold out. He then formed partnership with Messrs. Timothy and Austin Merrick, and started the same bus mess at Mansfield Hollow under the name of the Merrick Thread company, now the National Thread company. He continued there three or four years. On the 23d of January, 1863, he married sfor his second wife Miss Almira Barrows, who survives him. The following spring they moved to North Windham, where he remained three years in charge of thread mil, after which he went to Holyoke with his son-in-law, MT. Merrick, to assistIin the inauguration of the thread business there on limited scale, which has since developed iAto a large and flourishing business. Abo4s 20 years ago he purchased a pretty home on Church street, where he spent the remain der of his life in quietude. He became al- most totally blind from the effects of cataract, and suffered from other ailments. A year ago he had slight stroke of paraly- sis, and on the 4th of last May he expe- rienced a severe shook, and on Tuesday last another, from which he never rallied. AS neighbor and citizen he was held in high esteem. He was a staunch republi- can, and was constant subscriber to The Courant for over 50 years. But two now remain of the large family of eleven chil- dren, viz. Mrs. Phila Brown, Valley street, mother of o. D. Brown, merchant, and MT. Norman Hall of East Hartford. Gardner Hall % Willjngt ton diad few. years since.
 Rev. Frederic James, having returned from New York to spend feWs weeks with his daughters in Willington, would be happy to supply any destitute church in the vicinity for one or more Sabbaths. [
 Mrs. Harvey Merrick is visiting friends in town.
 Wilbur Duncan has bought the old John Wright place of Mrs. Della A. Rider. Preston, the Philadelphia publisher, who is issuing the History of Holland County, was in town yesterday.