Neal C. Hall Biography


	This biography appears on pages 585-586 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				NEAL C. HALL. 

	Neal C. Hall is county treasurer of Lawrence county and makes his 
home in Deadwood. He was born at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, May 24, 1881, a 
son of Frank A. and Nancy (McIntosh) Hall the former a native of 
Boston, Massachusetts, and the latter of Farmington, Maine. In early 
life the father engaged in the lumber business and on leaving New 
England went to Wisconsin. He left home at the age of fourteen years 
and began work in the lumber camps and sawmills near Eau Claire. In 
that locality he married and established his home. He became 
superintendent for the Empire Lumber. Company and continuously acted in 
that capacity until 1904, when he retired from active life. In business 
connections he worked his way steadily upward and won a substantial 
measure of success which was the legitimate reward of his industry, 
perseverance and fidelity. He is now enjoying well earned rest in his 
home at Russell, Minnesota. His wife passed away in Eau Claire, 
Wisconsin, in 1905. In their family v ere two children: Earl L., who is 
living in Russell, Minnesota, where he is engaged in the practice of 
medicine and surgery; and Neal C. 

	The latter attended school in Wisconsin, afterward became a 
student in the Minneapolis Academy and still later attended the 
University of Minnesota. When twenty years of age he put aside his 
textbooks and made his initial step in the business world, becoming an 
employee in the Simmons hardware store of Minneapolis. He there 
remained as a salesman for four years, at the end of which time he came 
to South Dakota, settling in Lead, where he entered the service of the 
Homestake Mining Company, with which he was connected for four years. 
He then received the appointment of deputy treasurer and has been 
connected with the office since, devoting his entire time to the duties 
of his position, which he discharges in a prompt, capable and loyal 
manner, making a creditable record in office.  

	On the 15th of August, 1906, Mr. Hall was united in marriage to 
Miss Daisy O'Brien, a native of Minneapolis and a daughter of Burke and 
Flora (Lovejoy) O'Brien, both of whom were natives of the state of 
Maine. The father, who was a merchant, ultimately became a resident of 
South Dakota, settling in Lead in 1905. There he embarked in business 
and is still proprietor of a store at that place. He served as a 
drummer boy in a Minnesota regiment during the Civil war, joining the 
army at the age of fourteen years and remaining at the front for a year 
and eight months. Mrs. Hal}is the youngest of a family of four children 
and by her marriage has become the mother of three children: Elizabeth 
Lucille, who was born July 17, 1907; Frances Estelle, August 21, 1909; 
and Neal Chester, November 19, 1911.  

	In his political views Mr. Hall is a stalwart republican and has 
been a recognized leader in party ranks in his section of the state. He 
represented Lawrence county in the state convention at Pierre in 1913. 
He served for two years as deputy county treasurer and was then elected 
to the office of county treasurer of Lawrence county, in which position 
he is now serving for the fourth year. His father-in-law served for 
four years as an alderman in Minneapolis and in 1910 was elected a 
member of the South Dakota legislature from Lawrence county.  

	Mr. Hall is well known in fraternal circles, holding membership 
with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Workmen and the 
Yeomen. He has a wide acquaintance in Lawrence county and the esteem of 
many whom he has met from other sections of the state. In his home 
locality his friends are many, for all who know him entertain for him 
warm regard.