At Leadville, on Friday last, Henri Hall, for some years past special agent of the post-office department, took suddenly ill of pneumonia and on Wednesday the light which had been suddenly dimmed went out forever. The remains were immediately embalmed and Mr. John A. Hall, Jr., of Robinson, a brother of the deceased, has started with them for Jamestown, New York.

The deceased was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death was thirty-seven years of age. When but a child his parents removed to the state of New York, where he lived with them near Jamestown until he was seventeen years old, when he left and joined in the rush to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, engaging in that business near Titusville. He was there some five or six years, and then returned to New York and began the manufacture of lumber near Salamanca and Jamestown. He afterward removed to Newark, New Jersey, remaining there until 1878, when he closed up his business and came to Leadville in January of the year following.

He engaged in mining here, says the Herald, and had been here but a few months when he was appointed assistant special agent of the postoffice department for the district embracing Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. He held this office until the first of January, 1880, and then resigned on account of his desire to devote all of his time to mining. He was largely interested in the Ten Mile district with his brother, and owned the major portion of the Ophir, the Ruby and the Champion tunnel, the latter being an extension of the Robinson vein.

Mr. Hall went east about the first of last June, returning to Leadville on Tues-day of last week, the twenty-sixth of July. He was taken sick on Friday, and was removed from the Clarendon hotel to Mr. Hutchinson's on Saturday, but his brother not being very ill, he returned to his home. On Sunday, however, he became worse, a telegram was sent to Robinson, which was not delivered until 10 o'clock at night, and, no answer being received here, a messenger was sent and arrived just as Mr. Hall and his wife were taking the 7 o'clock train for this place on Monday morning. They were with him up to the hour of his death, and in company with his physician gave him the most devoted attention, but were unable to save his life. The dying man was conscious until his last moment, though very weak. Mr. Hall was an unmarried man, and a citizen whose place it will not be easy to fill.

The Rocky Mountain News (Daily) August 5, 1881

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