Hall, John bio

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 916-917, Vermont Township
John Hall, farmer, sec. 34; P. O., Vermont; born in Belmont Co., O., in 1816; married Mary Ann, daughter of Daniel Knock, by whom he has 5 children. In 1839 he came to Vermont tp., where he has since lived; was a cooper by trade but is now a farmer. One day, when out in the woods cutting hoop-poles, Mr. Hall heard his dog barking a little way off, and going to the spot he found that the dog had treed a large catamount. On his arrival the cat jumped down, aiming to attack the dog, but failed at the first effort. However he turned upon the dog and would have killed him had not Mr. Hall at that juncture run up to them, and given the wild animal a few well directed blows with his hatchet, and killed him.