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         MARTIN C. HALL, a farmer of Louisa County, residing on section 30, Elliott Township, was born in Dearborn County, Ind., May 26, 1819, and is a son of John and Hannah M. (Eubank) Hall, both of whom were natives of England, the father of Lincolnshire, and the mother of Yorkshire. John Hall was a carpenter by trade, and when our subject was a small child removed to the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where Martin grew to manhood and learned his father’s trade. In 1845 he was united in mar- . . .

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. . . raige with Adeline Batman, a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, and shortly after the young couple removed to Jennings County, Ind., where Mr. Hall worked at his trade until 1857, and then emigrated to Lee County, Iowa. He then worked at the same occupation in Ft. Madison until the month of August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, 19th Iowa Infantry, and served three years, participating in the battles of Prairie Grove, the entire siege of Vicksburg, Yazoo, and was on the Red River expedition under Gen. Banks, after which he was detailed as one of the pioneer corps, in which he served until July, 1864, and then returned to his company. He received his discharge on the 1st of August, 1865, after three years’ hard service on the battle-fields of the South.

In the fall of 1863 Mr. Hall was sent home on the sick list, and during his furlough came to Louisa County, where he purchased sixty acres of land on section 30, Elliott Township. To our subject and estimable wife has been born a family of six children, four of whom lived to maturity: John B. died in 1882, at the age of thirty-five years; he was married. William S. is engaged in farming in Mercer County, Ill.; George Randall and Spencer L. are farmers of Elliott Township. Mr. Hall is at present Justice of the Peace, serving his third term. In his political sentiments he is a stalwart Republican, and is well known throughout the community, where he enjoys the respect of all.