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Subject: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - CHARLES K. HALL.

Date: Sunday, May 06, 2001 6:27 PM

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF RINGGOLD AND DECATUR COUNTIES,

IOWA; l887.

CHARLES K. HALL

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CHARLES K. HALL, farmer, section 32, Garden Grove Township, was born in

Huron County, Ohio, October 6, l835, son of Isaac and Lucilla (Kellogg)

Hall, natives of Onondaga County, New York. He was reared a farmer, and

has followed that occupation through life. When he was nine years of

age he had the misfortune to lose his father, by death. His early

educational advantages were good, and he has always been closely

identified with the school interests of Decatur County. He purchased

eighty acres of land, entered with a land warrant by his grandfather,

and now owns l60 acres. He was married in Hancock County, Ohio, in

l863, to Rachel A. Thompson, daughter of William Thompson, a native of

Ohio. They have one child--Racine D., who graduated in l884, at the

Parsons and Jefferson College, Iowa. Mrs. Hall's maternal grandfather

was in the war of l8l2. Mr. Hall enlisted, in l86l, in Company L, Third

Iowa Cavalry. He served two years, and was discharged on account of

disability. He was at the battles of Huntsville, Sand Spring and

Limestone, and was mustered out at Ironton, Missouri. He and his family

belong to the Presbyterian Church, of which he is deacon.

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