many years a practicing physician of Waverly, Missouri. His father went to Missouri from Kentucky in 1818. The ancestors of the family in America came to Maryland with Lord Baltimore, and one of them was Lord Surveyor of the colony of Maryland. The family is descended from the Cecils, who were united by marriage with the Royal family of England. Dr. and Mrs. Hall are the parents of two children, Agnes Lester and John Randolph Hall, Jr. Hall, Uriel S., lawyer, farmer and member of Congress, was born in Randolph County, Missouri, April 12, 1852. He attended the public schools, and afterward entered Mount Pleasant College at Huntsville, graduating at the age of twenty years. He taught school three years, then studied law and practiced for eight years, after which he engaged in farming. He was for a time State lecturer for the Farmers' Alliance, and afterward State president, though he did not approve all the doctrines of that organization. In 1892 he was elected as a Democrat to Congress from the second district, receiving 18,039 votes, against 16,178 cast for C. A. Loomis, Republican, and 2,761 for J. C. Goodson, Populist. His father was William A. Hall, who was circuit judge for thirty years and member of the thirty-seventh and thirtyeighth Congresses. Hall, Willard P., lawyer, soldier, Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Missouri, was born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1820, and died at St. Joseph, Missouri, November 21, 1882. He had the advantage of a good education, having been trained in the schools of his native town, and then sent to Yale College, where he graduated at the age of nineteen years. He then studied law, and in 1841 came to Missouri and commenced the practice of his profession at Huntsville, but removed the next year to St. Joseph and made that city his home for life. His talents and education soon commanded recognition, and in 1843 he was appointed circuit attorney by Governor Reynolds. His free and cordial manners won him a large measure of popular favor, also, and in 1844 he was made presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, doing a full share in carrying Missouri for James K. Polk, and when the electoral vote for Missouri was cast he was chosen to take the certificate to Washington. When the Mexican war began, he, with many other brilliant and ambitious young men of northwest Missouri, enlisted in Colonel Doniphan's regiment and took part in the famous expedition to New Mexico. When the army took possession of Santa Fe, General Kearney detailed him to make a digest of laws for governing the country under American rule, and he executed the task so wisely and well that the code has survived, in its main features, for more than a generation. On his return from New Mexico in 1847 he was elected to Congress, re-elected in 1849, and again in 1851, serving three full terms in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses. At the close of this service he returned to the practice of his profession, and was soon recognized as one of the best lawyers in a circuit renowned for its bar. He owned a fine farm near St. Joseph and took great interest in agricultural experiments, with the object of improving the standard of Missouri farming. When the disputes and controversies that preceded the Civil War came on, he boldly declared himself a Union man, and was elected a delegate to the State convention of 1861, at the first session of which he became one of the recognized leaders of the Union party. At the second session of the convention in July, after Governor Jackson and Lieutenant Governor Reynolds. had openly espoused the cause of the South, Hamilton R. Gamble was made Provisional Governor, and Willard P. Hall, Lieutenant Governor. On the death of Governor Gamble, in January, 1864, he became Governor, and continued to the end of the term in the following January. He then returned to St. Joseph and led a quiet life until his death in 1882. His public career was marked by integrity, generosity and freedom from extreme party spirit, and his name stands high among those whom the people delight to honor. Hall, William E., farmer and mineowner, was born in Jasper County, Missouri, March 14, 1845, son of Winston and Jane (Roberson) Hall. His father, who was a native of Surrey County, North Carolina, was the son of Harrison and Rebecca (East) Hall, and came of an old English family. Harrison Hall was a millwright by trade, and was. among the early settlers at Springfield, Illi nois. His wife died in Indiana on the long journey from North Carolina to Illinois, and he himself died shortly after the remainder of the family arrived at Springfield. Winston Hall accompanied his parents to Illinois as a child, and while crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains witnessed the wonderful "falling star" phenomenon of 1833. He grew up in Illinois, finishing his education in the common schools of that State, and while still unmarried came to Missouri and settled in that portion of Barry County which later became Jasper County. He married there, his wife having gone to that region with her parents shortly before he arrived there. He settled on a farm about two and a half miles north of the site of the present city of Joplin. After living there some time he sold this land and improved a farm four miles east of Joplin, on which he resided until his death. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are now living. They are William E. Hall, the subject of this sketch, of Carthage, Missouri; Thomas C. Hall, George W. Hall, Augustus H. Hall, Albert W. Hall and Mrs. Mary E. Halley, all of whom are residents of Williamson County, Texas, and Mrs. Rebecca J. Ewing, who lives at Morrisville, in Polk County, Missouri. Winston Hall died December 21, 1863, and his wife died in February of 1869. During the Civil War they suffered much at the hands of the military bands which overran Jasper County. Farm animals belonging to them were appropriated by the marauders, and they were despoiled of much of their property. Mr. Hall's grandfather, Clisby Roberson, who was a noted pioneer of Jasper County, and who was holding the office of public administrator when the war began, was killed at the age of seventy-nine years, at his own home in 1863, by bushwhackers who supposed that he had a considerable amount of money in his possession. William E. Hall attended the public schools of Jasper County as a boy and grew to manhood there. While still a mere youth he enlisted in the Confederate Army, and was accompanied into the service by his younger brother, Thomas C. Hall. After serving two years in the army, he returned home and a little later went to Texas, where he attended school for four months, and where he lived for five years afterward. His mother had gotten permission from the military authorities, in 1865, to pass. through the lines and go with her family to a farm they owned in Texas. This was what took William E. Hall to that State, and while there he was engaged in farming and stockraising. He returned to Jasper County in 1870, and settled on a farm a half mile north of Webb City, in Mineral Township, where he devoted his attention to farming and stock-raising until 1878. In 1877 he first be identified with mining enterprises. through leasing his lands to the North Center Creek Mining and Smelting Company. The tract of land was converted into a mining property, proved to be very rich in lead ore, and the first large mill erected in the district was built on this tract. Ever since that time Mr. Hall has been interested in mining properties and engaged in mining enterprises, and his ventures have made him a man of large means. Politically, he has always affiliated with the Democratic Party, which made him township assessor of Mineral Township in 1874, 1875 and 1876, notwithstanding the fact that the township ordinarily gives a Republican majority. In 1878 he was elected collector of Jasper County and served two years in that office. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In Masonry he has taken the Knight Templar degrees and he is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. October 14, 1869, he married Margaret C. Glasscock, who died at their home in Texas, April 22, 1870. May 7, 1871, he married Miss Martha E. Webb, daughter of John C. and Ruth F. (Davis) Webb. Four children have been born of this union, of whom John W. Hall died at the age of seventeen and a half years. Ruth Hall became the wife of Harry A. Vanderford in March of 1897, and died in December following. Charles T. Hall married Mary Himes Hendrix, who resides in Carthage, and is engaged in stock-raising and mining. Edward M. Hall also resides in Carthage, and is engaged with his father in business. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and are liberal supporters of the church and its charities. Halleck. -A town in Buchanan County, once known as Fancher's Cross Roads, and nicknamed “Old Taos." It has a population A four was for meray Tenous. in septa «hool in th olleck. Henry W., soldier, was born a la deville, Yea York, in 1814, ani d ar la teville, is sureks, Jun 4, 9, 1872. He red at Vest Point m 1839, and was, asste ant professor in the M Maty He served wrta distinction in th War on the Pacific Coast. In 1861 vade najor general, and on the rechort from the con.mail of the *h of ' sopry, in Noveær, 1861, amorted to succeed Ları. In 1852 he of the Gheratons Letore and conducted the siege mutil the ey cuated by the Com ́ederates, that year he was ma le genera-1the «rio", and held to place until eq by General Grant. He was in 2 of the Department of Missouri sce i vy General S f. It was adumista on that re m fagut and won the bane of Inn Tavern). On the 12th oer, IS 2. he issued an order, No. Ps.autod ceram wealthy יין s of St. Lows, for he stoort of the large nurabers of whnt ha 1 ..., n item their homes and forced to in that city. One or two of the asse sul refised to pay and sroon; the others paid to escape In the mon h of D、cenaber, red nules of the North Missouri destroyed by disban led solaers army, and to prevent a tẹp tiis work General Halleck declared ʼn St. Lons and in the counties ych railroads ran, making death taking up the rails of a road curn age of destroyng it, and requirwas and counties along the road #a! such damage. Shortly after the thes onder, eight porscas were consamiraty corun ission at Palmy a bridges and cars and destroying "I entreed to be shot, and Genapproved the sentence; but the xecution were never set, th of Febry ry, 1862, he modve to cortine neat in the Alton Three other men found er cffense by a military com “Ancient Hi tory beginning in 1854 school m the entered the be strict f tor i inter. two 1, en and s Through three wint 1. he atter led a cor, ♫ $38 he appar School, where * * English branicies, lson at i le neh, in [ry palaIns school att arce was t'e tine and dech of his he continued his studies. prire paty the night hours, at hope. In 18 he lly passed the mat. 'cu 4tion exarition and began the study of medicine in Victoria University, Toronto, Cana la. His advancement was so satisfac tory that in 1867 he was appointed pro ector to the chair of anatomy, which afforded hima unn, ual opportunity for farther improvement in that department of medical knowledge. In March following he went to New York City, where he took the spring course at Long Island College Hospital, and be useď the summer in atte ng ci ical 1 เป็ at various hospitals and dispesies |