Harrison County, West Virginia    Biography of Belle Jane HALL, D. C.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New 
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc. 
Chicago and New York, Volume II, 
Pg. 402 

BELLE JANE HALL, D. C., has the distinction of being the first practicing 
representative of the benignant system of chiropractic in the City of 
Clarksburg, Harrison County, and her technical skill is supplemented by 
her being also a trained nurse of marked ability and much practical experience.

Doctor Hall was born on the homestead farm of her parents in Harrison County, 
and the date of her nativity was September 6, 1876.  She is the second daughter
of David L. and Sarah (McPherson) Hall, the other three children of the family
being Hattie E., Ivy M. and Raymond L., but the last named is deceased.  
The devoted mother died many years ago, and the father is one of the venerable 
and honored citizens of Harrison County, which has ever represented his home, 
his birth having here occurred August 30, 1840.  His has been a useful and 
exemplary life, and since his retirement from farm enterprise in 1915 he has
resided in the City of Clarksburg.  Though he will soon (in August, 1922) 
celebrate his eighty-second birthday anniversary, he is hale and active and
takes lively interest in the questions and issues of the day.  He is vice-
president of the Farmers Bank of Clarksburg.  His father, Martin E. Hall, 
likewise was born and raised in Harrison County, the latter's father having
been a native of Wales and having become one of the sterling pioneers of 
Harrison County.

David L. Hall was not yet twenty-one years of age when the Civil war began,
and he promptly tendered his services in defense of the cause of the Confederate 
States.  He enlisted in Company B, Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry, and with this 
gallant command he gave faithful and valiant service during virtually the entire
period of the war, in which he took part in many engagements.  After the close
of the war he was for many years numbered among the most progressive and 
substantial exponents of farm industry in Harrison County.  He is a staunch 
democrat, has been affiliated with the Masonic fraternity more than fifty years, 
and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as was also 
his wife.

Doctor Hall was reared on the old home farm and received the advantages of 
the public schools of her native county.  In 1900 she was graduated in the 
training school for nurses maintained by the New York Medical College and 
Hospital, and for several years thereafter she successfully followed her 
profession as a trained nurse, principally in the cities of New York and 
Washington.  In 1911 she was graduated in the National College of Chiropractic,
in the City of Chicago, and after thus receiving her degree she returned to 
Clarksburg, where on the 6th of May of that year she opened an office and 
engaged in the practice of her profession, as the first chiropractor in this
city.  Her success has been distinctive and attests alike to her professional 
skill and personal popularity.  She maintains her offices in Department F of 
the Gore Hotel.  The doctor is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy
and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.