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Born 1877
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
DR. EARL L. HALL (1902) is a physician and druggist of Russell. He is a native of the Badger state and was born at Eau Claire May 26, 1877. He is a son of 'Frank A. and Nancy M. (Mcintosh) Hall, the former a native of Massachusettts and the latter of Maine. Mrs. Hall died in 1905. The father resides at San Francisco. They were the parents of two sons: Dr. E. L., of this sketch, and Neale C, of Lead, South Dakota. The latter is county treasurer of Lawrence county.
Our subject was graduated from the Eau Claire High School in the modern classical course. He later attended the Medical Department of the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated in 1902. After that he was house physician in the Minneapolis City Hospital one year.
Dr. Hall came to Lyon county in 1902 and located at Russell for the practice of his profession. He has practised there continuously since that date and has been very successful. In April, 1911, he purchased the C. J. Wimer drug store at Russell. He has put up a splendid building next to the postoffice and has one of the neatest and best arranged drug stores in this section of the state.
Dr. Hall holds membership in the Masonic and Modern Woodmen lodges and has served as master of Coteau Lodge Xo. 244 two years. He has been a member of the Village Council of Russell the past six years and was president of that body three years.
Our subject was married at Eau Claire April 28, 1906, to Florence Pickett, a native of that place. They are the parents of two children, Robert and Richard.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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