Background
George Hall was born on September 21, 1825, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the eldest child of Patten Hall of Manchester, New Hampshire, and his wife, Parthenia Coburn of Dracut, Massachusetts. He was a descendant of Thomas and Mary (Dickey) Hall, emigrants from the north of Ireland who settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire, in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Patten Hall, a prosperous lumber dealer, died in 1829 and shortly afterward his widow with her three children moved from Manchester to Boston.