Carroll County, Missouri Biography - John B. Hale b. 1831 

Source: History of Carroll County, Mo.; pages 596 & 597 & 598

Colonel John B. Hale 

Colonel John B. Hale, was born in Brooke County, Virginia, February 27, 1831,
the son of the Rev. John Hale, a native of Maryland. His mother was Miss
Elizabeth Blackwell, daughter of Colonel Joseph Blackwell, of Fauquier County,
Virginia. 

To this marriage were born five daughters and one son, the subject of this
notice. The father of Colonel Hale, in the spring of 1837, moved to Illinois
and settled in Grafton; during the summer every member of his family was sick.
Losing two daughters and suffering severe affliction himself, he determined
to return to his native state. He reached the city of Cincinnati in December,
and stopped with his uncle, General Charles Hale, and lived but a short time.
His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, of the First
Presbyterian Church in that city, and he was buried in one of the cemeteries. 

His widow returned to Brooke County, and in 1841 came to Missouri with her
daughters and her only son. She remained here until 1844, and returned to 
Virginia. Keeping her children at school, in 1847 returned with her family
to Missouri. Schools, at that day, in Carroll County, were very common; in
l849 a few of the citizens, feeling the importance of a better school,
employed Rev. Bartlett Anderson. It was at this school that Col. Hale was a
student, and began the study of Latin, with other branches, in which he made 
rapid progress for five months. At the close of this school he entered the
law office of Messrs. Able & Stringfellow, of Brunswick. After completing
his studies he returned to Carrollton, and opened an office. (The law at
this time had run completely down, some terms of the court not more than
thirty cases were on the docket, and not more than three or four new cases;
mostly continued and appealed cases, from justices' courts.) This quiet in
business gave him time to review his studies. In 1855 his friends brought
him forward as a candidate for the legislature, in opposition to Dr. Atwood,
a candidate to fill the vacancy made by the death of Dr. McMurtry. He made a
gallant race against one of the ablest speakers in the ranks of the Knownothing
party. Atwood was elected by twenty-four votes only. The following year he was
brought out as the champion of the Democrats again. Dr. Atwood declined making
the race, and Mr. Hale walked over the track without much opposition, and was
elected by nearly five hundred votes, being the youngest member of the
legislature. In that year Governor Polk was elected United States Senator. On
his return home business began to improve with him, and a lucrative practice
was secured. 

In 1861, when the excitement between the North and South began, he took the
side of the Union, and became its champion, and in 1862 he was elected Colonel
of Enrolled Militia, to serve one year. He then became associated with Captain
Eades in the practice of law, which association at once rose to the leading law
firm in the fifth judicial circuit, and was dissolved on the first of
January, 1881. Colonel Hale having a son whom he wished to advance took him
into partnership, and Captain Eads took in partnership his son-in-law. In 1858
he was married to Miss Mary Claiborne Casby, and by this union they have six
sons and one daughter. The eldest son is in partnership with his father and 
the second is attending the law school at St. Louis. In 1874 Colonel Hale was
elected to the constitutional convention, and is now in his fifty-first year
of age, independent in circumstances, with vigorous health. He has always been
Democratic in politics.



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