Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 637 - 638 

WILLIAM T. HALL, a resident of Mt. Hope, is the owner of a fine farm in Greeley Township, the operations of which he carefully superintends, and which is largely devoted to stock-raising. He ships annually large numbers of cattle to the Eastern markets, and feeds cattle both in the town and at his farm. He has been an important factor in the development of the agricultural resources of this county, to which he came in the spring of 1877, and is numbered among its most enterprising and public-spirited citizens.

            A native of Missouri, our subject was born Nov. 20, 1854, and is the son of Thomas D. and Telitha E. (Weir) Hall, of Tennessee. Thomas Hall, a farmer by occupation, and also engaged in mercantile business, was born Jan. 7, 1806, and left his native State in 1841, for Missouri. There he carried on farming and merchandising in Humansville, until after the outbreak of the late Civil War, and removed in 1863 to Illinois. When the conflict was ended he returned to Missouri, and died there in 1873.

            The father of our subject was a man of more than ordinary ability, and while in Missouri was Justice of the Peace, Judge of the County Court, and occupied other positions of trust and responsibility. He was well educated, and followed teaching considerably in his native State. He also taught one term of school in Missouri. His wife, Telitha, was born Sept. 1, 1813, and their marriage took place July 29, 1834. Mrs. Hall is still living, and passing her declining years at the home of our subject, who is ministering to her wants with true filial affection. She has been an invalid for some years, on account of a fall which dislocated her hip, and moves around by the aid of crutches.

            The parental family included eleven children, eight of whom are living, and are residents mostly of Kansas. One son, Ambrose, is in Mexico operating a stock ranch near Las Vegas, which he owns in company with our subject; Jefferson M. is married and engaged in the livery business at Colorado Springs. The other children of the family were named respectively: Charlotte A., now Mrs. McIntire, of Windsor, Mo.; Jefferson M.; Josephine B., Mrs. J. B. Wells, of Missouri; Susan P., the wife of R. T. Huston, of Greeley Township; John L. and Hugh S. also reside in Greeley Township.

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