Union-Pulaski County IL Archives Biographies.....Hale, John A. 1866 - 
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Author: George Washington Smith (1912)

   JOHN A. HALE, M. D. AS practicing physician of Alto Pass and founder and
editor of its principal newspaper the Enterprise, Dr. John A. Hale is one of the
busiest and most prominent men in that thriving little city. A resident of Alto
Pass since 1896, he has in the intervening years built up a wide general
practice and become well and favorably known among those people who go to make
up his clientele, and his further labors as editor of the Weekly Enterprise have
brought him a prominence in Union county that renders him a leading figure in
his community.

   Born December 16, 1866, in Anna, Illinois, John A. Hale is the son of Dr. J.
I. Hale, a native of Union county, who is proprietor of the Hale Sanatorium of
Anna, details of his life and work being given mention elsewhere in this history
of Southern Illinois.

   John A. Hale was educated in the Anna schools, and following his public
school years he attended and was graduated from the Union Academy of Anna in
1886. Later he was graduated from the Beaumont Hospital Medical College, now
comprising the medical department of St. Louis University, in March, 1888. He
practiced medicine for six months at Dongola, then in December of that year he
located in Olmstead, where he remained for a period of six years in the active
practice of his profession. From June, 1894, to 1896 he was occupied as
assistant to the Professor of Obstetrics in Beaumont Hospital Medical College in
St. Louis, and in June of 1896 he located in Alto Pass, where he has built up an
excellent practice. Previous to studying medicine, Dr. Hale had served some
little time as a newspaper reporter, and from time to time throughout his
college career he supplemented his income by his earnings in that manner, on a
number of occasions acting as court reporter. These various experiences were of
assistance to him when he decided in 1904 to establish a newspaper in Alto Pass.
He went about the work, and in that year he succeeded in successfully launching
the Enterprise, and it has been since its inception a well patronized and
satisfactory newspaper. It is a six column eight page, newsy sheet, devoted to
the best interests of Alto Pass and its people. The plant is thoroughly modern,
having a power equipment of approved order, with modern presses and other
appliances suited to the requirements of such a plant. On the whole Dr. Hale is
quite as successful in his newspaper venture as with his professional career.

   Dr. Hale is an inveterate student, and has mastered fully the French, German
and Spanish languages, in addition to which he is widely read on all topics
touching upon the interests of his professional and business life. He is a well
known contributor to a number of the best medical journals, and is local surgeon
for the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. Fraternally the Doctor is affiliated with the A.
F. & A. M., Odd Fellows the Modern Woodmen of Alto Pass. He is also a charter
member of the Illinois State Academy of Science, the Union County Medical
Society, The American Medical Association and the Illinois State Medical
Association.

   In 1891 Dr. Hale was married to Jessie Lewis, of Olmstead, the daughter of
Jesse Lewis, a native of Grayson county, Kentucky. They are members of the
Congregational church of Alto Pass.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal
Interests

BY
George Washington Smith, M. A.
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1912


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