Bio of HALL, Judge Levi M. (b.1889), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

HON. LEVI M. HALL - Vol II, pg 132-135
Early success has crowned the efforts of Judge Levi M. Hall of the municipal
court of Minneapolis (Conciliation Division), who received his appointment to
the bench at the age of thirty-three. Born in this city on the 9th of August,
1889, he is the son of Dr. Pearl M. and Anna C. (Depew) Hall, Ohioans by birth.
His paternal grandfather, Levi Hall, was a circuit rider in Ohio and one of the
first Methodist ministers to come to Minnesota. After preaching in this state
for some time he took up the study of medicine and became a physician, his son
Pearl following him in the medical profession. Levi M. Hall received his basic
education in the Minneapolis schools, going through the grades and graduating
from the North high school. He then attended the University of Minnesota,
securing the literary foundation for his legal training, which he received at
the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in the class of 1916, with
the LL. B. degree. During 1915 he was engaged in practical legal work and in the
year of his graduation he was admitted to the bar.
For a short time Mr. Hall devoted himself to building up a legal practice in
Minneapolis, but during the difficulty with Mexico he enlisted as a private in
the First Minnesota Field Artillery and went to the Mexican border for patrol
duty. Scarcely had he resumed his legal work after the troops returned from the
border when the United States declared war against the Central Powers and he
promptly volunteered for military service, entering the First Officers Training
Camp at Fort Snelling in May, 1917, and receiving a commission as second
lieutenant. Lieutenant Hall was sent to Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, where he was
attached to the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Field Artillery, Thirty-third
Division, until July, 1918, when he was transferred to the air service at Fort.
Sill, Oklahoma. In August, 1918, he was sent overseas with the Ninetieth Aero
Squadron, Third Army Corps, First army, and served as an aerial observer
throughout the Meuse and Argonne offensive. Returning to the United States in
January, 1919, he received an honorable discharge at Garden City, Long Island.
Again Mr. Hall established himself in legal practice, this time being associated
with his uncle, Albert H. Hall, until the time of the latter's death. Under the
name of Woolley & Hall he subsequently formed a partnership with Mark J.
Woolley, which was terminated at the conclusion of the first year. Following the
dissolution of this partnership Mr. Hall practiced alone until December, 1922,
when he was appointed to the bench as municipal judge for Minneapolis by
Governor Preus.
On October 10, 1917, Mr. Hall married Miss Mary A. Adams and they have become
the parents of one daughter, Nancy. Judge Hall is a member of the American
Legion and has been very active in promoting the work of that organization as
well as in helping individual soldiers who served in the World war. He was
appointed national committeeman and served on the national executive committee
at the national encampment of the Legion in 1922. He is also a member of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars; a Mason, belonging to Plymouth Lodge, No. 60, A. F. &
A. M.; and he has also membership in Minneapolis Lodge, No. 44, Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks. Judge Hall is a republican and loyal to his party, but
his appointment to the bench at his youthful age was a recognition of his legal
ability, combined with a judicial temperament, and also of his stanch
Americanism as evidenced by his voluntary military service during the Mexican
incident and the World war. On June 11, 1923, he was reelected by an
overwhelming majority for a term of six years.