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Born 1865
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
THOMAS H. STALL (1805), senior member of the Jackson mercantile firm of T. H. Stall & Co., is forty-four years of age and has spent his entire life in Jackson county. He was born on section two, Des Moines township, on October 31, 1865, the son of Oliver and Helen (Hansen) Stall. These parents were born in Norway a.nd came to the United States when young. They were married in Illinois and in the spring of 1865, immediately after the discharge of Oliver Stall from a three 3'ears' service in the union army, they came to Jackson county. The head of the family took as a homestead claim the northeast quarter of section 2, Des Moines township, making the filing in May, 1865. A census of the county, taken two months after his arrival, showed a total population for Jackson county of 233. Oliver Stall continued to farm his original homestead until 1906, when he retired from active life and is now enjoying the fruits of a well spent and hard working life at the age of seventy years. Our subject's mother died in the fall of 1876. They were the parents of four children, of whom the three following are living: Thomas H., of this sketch, Martina (Mrs. Jake Johnson), of Windom, and Hans M. Stall, who resides upon the old boni( stead.
Thomas H. Stall lived with his parents on the farm until he reached his majority. He attended the country schools and completed his education in the Jackson high school. At the age of twenty-one years he bought a farm in Belmont township and conducted it five years. He then moved to Jackson and entered the employ of J. W. Cowing and clerked in that gentleman's store five years. At the end of that time he bought an interest in the store and remained with the firm two years. In 1899 he formed a partnership with H. E. Anderson and G. A. Husby and opened a general store in the building in which he is still located. The firm carries a line of general merchandise, dry goods, groceries, clothing and shoes.
Mr. Stall is a member of the Lutheran church and of the E. F. U. and M. W. A. lodges. He has three sons and two daughters, namely: Norin, Tilford, Theodore, Hazel and Ruth.
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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