Hall, Gilbert

HALL, DREW

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 12:45:44

HALL, Gilbert
Farmer; Sec. 33; P. O. Newton; born in New Hampshire Oct. 29, 1831. Married a Miss DREW in Ohio in 1857. She was born in Maine Jan. 8, 1833. They have one child - Bertha, born in Jasper Co., Iowa. Has eighty acres of land, valued at $40 per acre. He moved to Ohio, where he followed shoemaking six months, and thence to Iowa in 1853, and followed trade one year; followed carpentering three years, and then located on his present farm, where he now resides, in 1858. Mr. Hall followed school teaching in Newton; taught in the old Court House, which has since been removed. Held the office of Township Clerk four years and President of the School Board two years. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Universalist Church in Newton. ~ "Malaka Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)