The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-02-08
FELIX GRUNDY HAIL.
Assemblyman From the Sixth District
Sierra and Plumas Counties.

ASSemblyman From the Sixth District,
Sierra and Plumas Counties.
Mr.. Hail represents the Sixth District
in the Assembly, Sierra and Plumas
Counties. He was born in Camden
County, Missouri, October 9, 1851.
When seven years of age the family re-
moved to Kansas. His parents were Ken
tuckians, and his father was veteran of
the Mexican war, who died in Butte
County in 1888. Mr.. Hail resided in Kan
sas until 1868, much of his boyhood being
passed in the midst of the stirring scenes
and events that preceded the civil war,
and marked its progress. The family
came to California, crossing the plains
in wagons from Linn County, Kansas,
and arriving in Chico in 1868. They set
tied near that city and began the farmer
life. The winter of 1863 Ga was dry one
and the small production of the farm de-
manded not only rigid economy, but
hard and assiduous labor. When young
Hail, therefore, was not at work upon the
home place, he was found laboring for
wages and enjoying only few months
OF schooling in each year. This hard dis
clpllne was OF immense value to him,
however. When his younger brothers
were old enough to give the labor neces-
sary to the farm, young Hail, then 10,
struck out for himself, determined to
broaden his education all he could, and
to hit himself for manhood and independ-
ence. During the succeeding year, by
hard work, close economy and rigid self
year, 1S7l-72, at school under the tu-
torship of II. T. Batchelder, then
leading educator of Butte County.
He won teachers certificate, and
entered upon the vocation of teaching.
He went to Plumas county in 1875 and
followed the same honorable profession
until 1884. In 1877 his abilities and popu-
larity led to his election to the office of
Superintendent of Schools for that county.
a position to which he was deservedly re-
elected in 1879. In the meantime he won
O life diploma. On the 18th of Nav. 1878.
he was married in Sacramento to Miss
Mary ALIVE Leonard, who had lust re-
turned from the State Normal School.
Mrs. Hail is the eldest daughter of Mrs.
R. M. Austin, the well-known botanist.
Four children-two boys and two girls
have been borns to the couple. In 1884
Mr.. Halls attention was directed towards
Journalism, and in that year he purchased
the Greenville Plumas) Bulletin, and is
now the editor and proprietor of that in
fluential journal, which he conducts with
ability and dignity and with sincere and
ardent devotion to the best interests of
the county and of the State. Mr.. Hail
was member of the Republican State
Convention of 1886. In September last
he was nominated by his party as Joint
Assemblyman for Plumas and Sierra. and
defeated F. r. Wehe, the most popular
young Democrat of that section, and who
had the support of many wealthy par
tisans of Sierra, and of the Native Sons.
During the campaign Mr.. Hail took the
stump with ex-senator Kellogg, and did
effective and honorable service in secur-
ing Republican victory in the Sixth
District. In the Assembly Mr.. Hail will
be found bold, judicial and impressive
He Is Chairman of the Assembly Com
mittee on Mines and Mining Interests,
and member of the Committees on WAYS
and Means and Education During his
attendance at the Legislature his paper is
ably edited by his wife.