Bio of Charles F. HALL (b.1869), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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CHARLES F. HALL (1869)

Charles F. Hall, judge of probate of Yellow Medicine county, and a resident
of Granite Falls, is one of the earliest settlers of the county.  His
father, S. A. Hall, bought 160 acres of land in Wood Lake township in 1869
within the limits of the old Indian reserve, buying the land from a squatter
by the name of William Churchill for $600.

S. A. Hall was a prominent man in the early history of Yellow Medicine
county.  He was the second superintendent of schools of the county,
succeeding J. A. White in January, 1873, and was the real organizer of the
county's school system, serving until 1877.  In the fall of 1876 he was
elected to the State Senate and served one term.  He was county commissioner
in the early eighties.  He was a regularly ordained Methodist Episcopal
preacher, and for ten years after coming to Yellow Medicine county preached
at various points in the county, wherever a congregation could be gathered
together.  He married many couples in pioneer days and preached a number of
funeral sermons.  He was an orator of considerable ability and his services
were frequently sought for memorial sermons, Fourth of July speeches, etc.

S. A. Hall was born in Jefferson county, New York, July 15, 1835.  He was
graduated from the Wisconsin University in 1861.  He had charge of the
Wesleyan Seminary at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, until 1864.  Then he organized a
company and was commissioned captain of Company K, Fifth Wisconsin Infantry,
and served under General Grant until the close of the Civil War.  Mr. Hall
then taught school at Waterloo, Wisconsin, one year, after which he returned
to Eau Claire and again had charge of the seminary until 1869.  Then he came
to Yellow Medicine county, where he made his home until 1907, when he moved
to Redwood Falls; he has since resided at that point.

S.A. Hall was married to Emma Leona Knapp, a native of Waterloo, Wisconsin.
They have six children, namely, Charles F., Hattie L. ( Mrs. B. M. Hamre),
of International Falls; Mary R. (Mrs. J. I. Gates), who was superintendent
of Yellow Medicine county schools in 1900-02, now living at Pewaukee,
Wisconsin; Benjamin F.., now superintendent of schools at Belleplaine,
Minnesota; Albert H., who lives on and manages the old farm in Wood Lake
township; and Erwin A., a stenographer and abstractor, or Forsythe, Montana.

Charles F. Hall, of this sketch, was born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, August 6,
1869, and in October of that year came with his parents to Yellow Medicine
county.  He was educated in the district schools and grew to manhood on the
farm.  He entered Hamline University in 1888.  Afterwards he taught school
and worked on the farm until 1892.  Then he was elected county
superintendent of schools and held the office four successive terms.  In
December, 1899, owing to failing health, he gave up that position and went
to California, seeking recovery from a breakdown caused by overwork and a
sunstroke.  He returned from California in 1901 and filed on a homestead in
Itasca county, Minnesota.  He spent the greater part of the time there until
1906, when he resumed his residence in Wood Lake.  In 1910 he was elected
probate judge.

Our subject was married in San Diego, California, June 25, 1900, to Ruth I.
Faus, a native of Montevideo, Minnesota, where she was born July 26, 1875.
She was graduated from the Montevideo High School in the spring of 1892 and
from Hamline University in 1897.  She was a teacher of mathematics and
literature at Pipestone and taught in the Montevideo High School two years.
They have one child, Marjory, born April 24, 1907.

Mr. Hall is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He owns a farm in
Sioux Agency township.

Source: A History of Yellow Medicine County by Arthur P. Rose.  Published
1914.