Stanton Hall
Stanton Hall, proprietor of one of the meat markets of Osage, was born in Herkimer Co., Vt. April 6, 1820. He grew to manhood upon a farm, receiving his education in his native State. When twenty-one years of age he left home and began working on a farm, receiving as compensation $10.50 per month.
He was married in 1848 to Ellen Allenson, by whom he had two sons and three daughters: Mary, Nellie, Edith J., William H. and Walter. In 1860 he left New York and came west to Illinois, settling in Lake County. In 1869 he came still farther west and located in Floyd County, and finally in 1878 came to Osage where he still lives, engaged in the meat market business. Mr. Hall came west a poor man, but has accumulated a fair property. Politically he is a republican. He cast his first vote for William H. Harrison for President. Hr. Hall owns 160 acres of land valued a $30 per acre.
Transcribed by Gordon Felland, July 2003