We are in receipt of a copy of the Denver, Colorado, Sun containing
pictures and biographical sketches of the prominent railway men of that
city.  Among the portraits we notice that of J.P. HALL, formerly a well
known and popular business man of Leon.  We reproduce the sketch in
full:

J.P. HALL was born in Iowa in l854.  He commenced his railroad life in
l872 as a telegraph operator on the Iowa division of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad, where he worked in various capacities as
operator, ticket agent and station agent until l876, when he was
transferred to Lincoln, Nebraska as operator and cashier for the same
company, afterward being appointed ticket agent from which position he
resigned in l877 to accept the cashiership of one of the largest banking
institutions in southern Iowa, at the place where he formerly worked as
operator.  He served as cashier until l88l, when on account of failing
health he was compelled to resign.

He came to Colorado in l88l, and after roughing it for about one year,
and his health improving, he accepted the chief clerkship in the general
agency of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad at Denver.  He has
worked continuously for this company from that time until the present at
Denver, serving in various positions, such as chief clerk, traveling
freight agent, traveling passenger agent, ticket agent, and in l888 was
appointed to his present position of Colorado passenger agent, having
charge of the passenger business for the states of Colorado and Wyoming
and the Territory of New Mexico north of Santa Fe.
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(I thought he might be one of your HALLs - Pauline Stubbs.)