Dwight Hale Hall, the only son of Joshua and Susan (Bigelow) Hall, was born in Dover on April 13, 1871. He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy and from Dartmouth College in 1894. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in 1897.
Dwight Hall was living with his parents at the time of his father’s death in 1898 and inherited the house by his father’s will. He lived in the house until his death in 1963 when he left it to his niece Elizabeth Sawyer and his nephew Jonathan Sawyer, the two children of his sister Susan Gertrude who had married William D. Sawyer of Dover the eldest son of Gov. Charles H. Sawyer.
Dwight Hall was state chairman of the Republican Party for a number of years and also Collector for the Port of Boston. He served as chairman of the Trustees of the Woodman Institute and was Mayor of Dover in 1911 & 1912. He was a director of the Strafford National Bank for 50 years, the longest length of service on the board in the Bank’s history.
His first wife Frances C. Smith died Dec. 10, 1948 and he married Almie Jenness only to become a widower for the second time when Almie died July 16, 1960. Dwight Hall died March 14, 1963. He had no children.
Photograph from Dover Public Library archives, text from Marston, Robert, Dover, NH: People, Businesses and Organizations: 1850 to 1950. Dover, NH, 2004.