History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 438, Astoria Township
John W. Hall & Son, attorneys at law. The senior
member of this firm is a well-known lawyer. He was born in Va.
March 22, 1833. When still a youth he accompanied his parents to
Licking Co., O., and at the city of Granville he fitted himself for the
business pursuits of life, and for a number of years worked at the
tailor's trade. But he had a desire to become an attorney and
studied late and early, and for three years read under P. W. Gallagher,
a talented attorney. In 1855, in Fulton county, he was married to
Miss N. C. Taylor; in 1854 settled at Cuba. From there he went to
Bushnell and was appointer Postmaster by Pres. Lincoln. Resigning
he went to Chillicothe, Mo., and was appointed on U. S. Secret
Service. After the war, went to Elmwood, then to Cuba, both
places as a merchant, and after much travel settled in Astoria in
1877. Of the marriage above spoken of 6 children wre born, of
whom but one survives, E. C., the law partner of his father.
