Born in Ohio, but has spent the important years of his life in Iowa and Missouri. After obtaining a good fundamental education he entered upon a course of legal reading. In 1873, soon after his admission to the bar of his native State, Mr. Hall removed to Boone County, Iowa, where he soon took a place of prominence in legal and political affairs. For fifteen years he practiced law and dealt in securities in Iowa, and assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Boone, Iowa, of which institution he was a director for ten years. He also served a splendid constituency in the Legislature of that State. He was a member of the Twenty-second General Assembly, and was the third member of the committee which had in charge the framing and successful inaction of the wholesome railroad law which now appears on the statute books of Iowa. In 1888, after the adjournment of the Legislature, Mr. Hall moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and there assumed charge of the legal department of the New England Loan & Trust Company. He served in that capacity until 1898, when he organized the New England Securities Company. He married Miss Josephine Reynolds, of La Porte, Indiana, July 24, 1878.