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Born 1876, Kankakee county
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
JAMES H. HALL (1897), county attorney of Lyon county, was born in Kankakee county, Illinois, in 1876. He is the son of James and Margaret (McGlade) Hall, of Balaton. Both parents were born in Ireland and came to America when children.
In 1883 the family moved to Hand county, South Dakota. Our subject received his education in the country schools of that county and in Wessington Springs Seminary. After his school days he taught one year in South Dakota, and in 1897 he located in Lyon county. After teaching two years in Lyon county Mr. Hall took up the study of law in the offices of O. E. Maxson, E. C. Patterson and V. B. Seward. He then attended the night school of the St. Paul College of Law, took the state bar examination, and was admitted to practice in 1905. He formed a partnership with E. C. Patterson, of Marshall, and was a member of the firm of Patterson & Hall from October, 1905, until January 1, 1910. Mr. Hall then opened an office in the Dibble Block. 'He was elected county attorney in 1910 and took office the first of the following year.
Mr. Hall was married December 31, 1905, to Rose Parfitt, of Sunnyside, Washington. He is a member of the Methodist church and of the Masonic order.
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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