Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 295.

WINTHROP C. HALL

     One of the leading figures in the industrial affairs of Eugene is Winthrop
C. Hall, who for fifteen years has been at the head of the Eugene Concrete Pipe
Company, one of the most successful and important manufacturing concerns in this
section of the Willamette Valley. Mr. Hall is a man of a high type of business
ability and his conduct of this enterprise has been marked by a close adherence
to the slogan, "Build a good name." Mr. Hall was born in 1862 in New York state,
but was reared in Michigan, to which state the family moved during his boyhood.
He attended the public schools, completing his education in the Michigan State
College, where he was graduated in 1887. In 1912 Mr. Hall came to Eugene,
Oregon, and soon afterwards established the Eugene Concrete Pipe Company, the
first plant being located at the foot of Ninth avenue East. The enterprise
proved successful and business increased to the extent that in ten years larger
space was needed, and the plant was moved to its present splendid location at
Blair boulevard and the Southern Pacific railroad. The company is incorporated
and its present officers are as follows: Winthrop C. Hall, president; Howard A.
Hall, vice president; Hugh P. Ford, secretary and manager, and B. B. Brundage,
treasurer. The company has one of the most modern and complete plants of- the
kind in the entire northwest and its products have been of a character and
quality that have gained for them favorable attention among contractors and
public improvement boards, the sales territory reaching from Portland to the
California state line. Their specialty is concrete pipe for sanitary purposes,
storm sewers and culvert construction and is made as large as forty-four inches
in diameter.
     Mrs. Hall is a graduate of the Michigan State Normal College and was
engaged in teaching school for many years. She comes of old pioneer stock, her
grandparents and Mr. Hall's father being among the earliest settlers in
Michigan. The Hall family for several generations have held high rank in the
professions, principally as educators and ministers of the Presbyterian church,
and Mr. Hall's only brother was for thirteen years at the head of the department
of English in Arizona College and for twenty-five years has been professor of
English in Leland Stanford University, California. To Mr. and Mrs. Hall have
been born five children, namely: Howard A., who is associated with his father in
business; Mrs. I. H. Ware, of Eugene, whose husband is identified with the
Eugene Concrete Pipe Company; Mrs. Lewis A. Bond, of Pasadena, California;
Lowell L., who is in the office of the collector of internal revenue at
Portland, and Franklin P., who is a student in the University of Oregon. Howard
A. Hall is a veteran of the World war, having enlisted April 6, 1917. He was
sent to the aviation school at Chicago and from there to the school at Memphis,
Tennessee, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant. He was transferred to
the aviation field at Dallas, Texas, and later to Houston, that state, where he
served as an aviation instructor, as he also did at Fort Worth, Texas. His last
service was as an instructor in machine gunnery at Houston, and at the close of
the war he was honorably discharged. He attended the University of Oregon three
years and is now devoting himself to the interests of the business with which he
is connected. In 1918, in Memphis, Tennessee, he was united in marriage to Miss
Marjory Mae Williams, and they are the parents of a son, Howard A., Jr., born on
December 11, 1923.
     Winthrop C. Hall has attained distinctive recognition in the business
circles of Eugene as a man of strong character, stanch integrity and marked
business acumen, and the success which he has attained has been the legitimate
fruitage of his well directed and determined efforts along right lines.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2012 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.