Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 658.
 
REASON B. HALL

     Born in Georgia in 1794; was taken to Kentucky by his father and reared
there.  Served in the war of 1812 and in the Black Hawk war.  Married in 1823,
while in Indiana, Miss Martha Wright, by whom he had ten children, eight of whom
still survive -- Mary (Mrs. H. Croisan), Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Smith), Lawrence M.,
Edward C., Reuben and William (twins, born on the plains), Andrew Jackson, and
Benjamin F.  Mr. Hall brought his family across the plains in 1846, and in the
next year settled permanently on a donation claim where Buena Vista now stands.
This town he laid out in 1861, and named in from the celebrated battle field in
Mexico.  Mr. Hall died December 13, 1870.


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