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| Reuben N. Hall, farmer on sec 1, Hinton Tp., is the son of Gardner and Theory (Nott) Hall, was born March 11, 1819, in Jefferson Co. N.Y. His father was a native of Rhode Island , and the mother of Vermont, they were married in the State of New York. Mr. Hall passed the first 20 years of his life at school and on the farm. At 21 he engaged himself to learn the trade of tanner and currier, which occupation he followed until the fall of 1863, when he came to Ionia Co., Mich. He has made agriculture the pursuit of his life, and followed in the counties of Ionia and Montcalm, until the summer of 1881, when he purchased 40 acres of improved land on sec.1, of Hinton Tp. In the spring of 1882 he moved his family to Montcalm County. In the winter of 1882 he bought 120 acres of land, chiefly in heavy timber, sec. 12. Having sold 40 acres to son, his landed estate in Hinton Tp., includes 120 acres. Mr. Hall was married in the State of New York, July 15, 1844, to Lydia, daughter of James and Melinda (Kinney) Heald, natives of Vermont, who was born in Essex Co., N.Y., April 29, 1823. Of five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, only three survive: Ellis W., born March 7, 1849, Genevra, born Feb. 16, 1845, and Augusta C., Sept. 4, 1856. In politics Mr. Hall is independent. |