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James Hall
Van Buren County
Born March 13, 1810, in Maryland. He traveled to Wisconsin Territory and became one of the founders of the town of Keosauqua in 1837. A year later, Iowa Territory was created. He went on to represent Van Buren County in the House of Representatives of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Legislative Assemblies of the Iowa Territory, 1838-1841. He married Emilia Shaff in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1842. They had one child. He was a man of great suavity of manners, exceedingly polite and gentlemanly in his intercourse with society, and might properly be called the politician of the association. A man of pleasing address, he had very warm and active friends, and was popular with the people. A man of strong impulses generous to the last cent, tenacious of this honor, ready to resent an insult, enjoying the convivialities of the dance or the glories of a corn husking or house raising, give his personal influence to all public or benevolent enterprises, treating all person respectfully, he was a general favorite, and died generally lamented as any one who has brought mourners to his bier in our place. He died November 19, 1845, in Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa.
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