JOSEPH HALL.
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JOSEPH HALL.
Joseph Hall, Senator from the Seventh District, composed of Cuming and Burt counties, is a native of England, born in Hartford county, in 1840. Left an orphan in childhood, he came to America in 1856, and located in Wisconsin, spear the town of Tomah, and in the institute of that town he completed his schooling, attending the school until 1861 when he enlisted as a private in the 4th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. He served until the close of the war, part of the time as regimental and brigade quarter master, and when his regiment was transferred from infantry to cavalry, he was made captain of cavalry in Co. L. He was mustered out of service in 1866 and then came to Nebraska and took up a homestead, upon which he still lives near Tekamah, in Burt county. He has been justice of the peace, police judge of Tekamah, assessor, and three terms commissioner of Burt county. He served as a member of the lower house of the Nebraska Legislature during the 27th Session. He has a wife and six children, all of whom, excepting one, an eighteen year old son, are married. Mr. Hall is one of the conservative members of the Senate. He has always been a steadfast Republican.
M. A. HALL.
Matthew Alexander Hall, Senator from he Sixth District, Douglas county, was born at Scarboro, York county, Ontario, Canada, July 11, 1862, of English and Scotch blood. His father was Thomas H. Hall, a merchant, farmer and stock breeder, and his mother was Janet Burns. All of Mr. Halls grandparents were among the pioneers who settled along the northern shores of Lake Ontario, east of Toronto, the father's parents coming from Cumberland, England, and those of the mother from Aberdeen, Scotland.Mr. Hall was educated in the public schools of Scarboro and Markham, and the High school at Newmarket, Canada, and the Collegiate Institute at Toronto. He earned his first money as a teacher in the public schools of Glenville and Kettleby in his native province. After teaching two years he was a commercial traveler for McColl Bros. & Co. of Toronto, and later traveled through the United States and Canada for the Standard Oil Company for several years.
In 1886 he entered the law department of the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1888 with the degree of LL. B. He came to Omaha, August 3, 1888, and began the practice of law, and has been signally successful, being associated for the greater part of the time with
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Carroll S. Montgomery, also a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, under the firm name of Montgomery & Hall.In 1897 Mr. Hall was appointed by the British Government as Vice-Consul at Omaha, and has held the office ever since. In 1898 he was commissioned by the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition as special envoy to Canada, and he succeeded in inducing the Canadian Government to participate in the exposition by an attractive display of its products and resources. In 1897 he was president of the Victoria Diamond Jubilee association of Nebraska and Iowa. In 1898 he was president of the British-American club, organized in view of the coming to Omaha of large numbers of subjects of Queen Victoria, to visit the exposition, and in the same year he was president of the Omaha Cricket club. He is a member of the Omaha club, the Omaha Country club, The American Bar association, and is Past High Chief Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters in Nebraska, is a Scottish Rite Mason, and one of the board of Governors of the Knight of Ak-Sar-Ben. He is a member of All Saints Episcopal church, and a Republican in politics. He takes an ardent part in the promotion of the social welfare of his fellow citizens and his personal and professional character is held in high esteem.
In October, 1890, he was married to May Wurtele, daughter of C. J. C. Wurtele, a prominent member of the Canadian Bar, at Sorel, Quebec. They have three children--Percy Wurtele, born September 15, 1892; Charles Alexander, born September 9, 1894; Donald James, born November 6, 1897.
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L. S. HASTINGS.
Lovel Sheldon Hastings, Senator from the Nineteenth District, composed of Butler and Seward counties, was born in Boone county, Illinois, November 1, 1866. When he was twelve years of age he removed to Nebraska with his parents, who settled in Butler county. His rudimentary education was received in the public schools of Illinois and of Butter county, Nebraska. Inclined toward the study of law, he quit the home farm and entered the office of Hon. J. C. Roberts, at David City, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1887, and commenced practice in David City, which place has since been his home. He was county attorney of Butter county from 1891 to 1895. While always an active worker in the Republican party, he has never been among the office-seekers, and this is his first term in the State Legislature. Senator Hastings was married in 1893 to Eva V. Sheldon, and has two children, daughters.
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