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Portrait And Biographical Album Of Mecosta County, Mich. Containing
Portraits And Biographical Sketches of Prominent And Representative
Citizens of the County together with Portraits And Biographies of All The
Presidents Of The United States  And Governors of the State.  Also
Containing A Complete History of The County, From Its Earliest Settlement
To the Present Time.  Chicago, Chapman Bros. 1883

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HALL, Reuben N.
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Reuben N. Hall, farmer on sec 1, Hinton Tp., is the son of Gardner and
Theory (Nott) Hall, was born March 11, 1819, in Jefferson Co. N. Y. His
father was a native of Rhode Island, and the mother of Vermont, they were
married in the State of New York.

Mr. Hall passed the first 20 years of his life at school and on the farm.
At 21 he engaged himself to learn the trade of tanner and currier, which
occupation he followed until the fall of 1863, when he came to Ionia Co.,
Mich. He has made agriculture the pursuit of his life, and followed it in
the counties of Ionia and Montcalm, until the summer of 1881, when he
purchased 40 acres of improved land on sec.1, of Hinton Tp. In the spring
of 1882, he moved his family from Montcalm County. In the winter of 1882 he
bought 120 acres of land, chiefly in heavy timber, sec. 12. Having sold 40
acres to son, his landed estate in Hinton Tp., includes 120 acres.

Mr. Hall was married in the State of New York, July 15, 1844, to Lydia,
daughter of James and Melinda (Kinney) Heald, natives of Vermont, who was
born in Essex Co., N. Y., April 29, 1823. Of five children born to Mr. and
Mrs. Hall, only three survive: Ellis W., born March 7, 1849, Genevra, born
Feb. 16, 1855, and Augusta C., Sept. 4, 1856.

In politics Mr. Hall is independent.

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