Biography of J. L. Hall

	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 408-409

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J. L. HALL. - This name will be readily recognized by many of the 
citizens of Volga, and Brookings county, as one of the leading business 
men of that thriving village. Mr. Hall was born at Rockford, Illinois, 
November 25, 1856. His father, Charles Hall, a native of Massachusetts, 
was engaged in the livery business at Rockford, and died there in 1858. 
His mother was born in New York and died at Rockford in 1890 at the age 
of sixty-two years.

	Our subject spent his boyhood at Rockford, and received a 
preliminary education in the public schools of that place, which he 
supplemented by a course in the high school, and acquired an education 
which has enabled him to conduct his business in a strictly first-class 
manner. While in Rockford he learned the tinner's trade, and later, when 
he moved to New Hampton, Iowa, this was his occupation. In 1880 he went 
to Tyler, Minnesota, where he established a hardware business and 
operated the same at that place about two years, and then moved his 
stock of goods to Volga, Brookings county, South Dakota, secured a fine, 
large building, stocked it with a full line of hardware, stoves, ranges, 
etc., and has since added to it a full stock of lumber, his house and 
yard being one of the largest in the county.

	Mr. Hall is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge of Volga, of which 
he has passed all the chairs and now holds the office of secretary. He 
is one of the pioneers of this lodge, being one of its organizers in 
1887 and has since been actively interested in the affairs of the order. 
Mr. Hall is a man of good business qualifications, and, by careful 
attention to the various details of his work, has built up an extensive 
and profitable trade. He is public spirited and active in all matters 
pertaining to the general welfare, and has a large circle of warm 
friends.