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Hon. Matthew Watson Hall, M.D.
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- ↑ Portrait and biographical record of Lafayette and Saline Counties, Missouri: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893)
199, 566.
MATHEW W. HALL, of Saline County, comes of a family of professional men, who trace their ancestry back through professional men; and he himself is handing down the title to his sons, among whom are three practicing physicians, a banker and a Circuit Clerk. Dr. Hall's birthplace is in Washington County, Ky., where he first saw the light of day May 15, 1817. He was reared in La Fayette County, graduating in 1837 from the Transylvania Medical College, at Lexington, under its first Board of Instructors. Soon after graduation, he went to Salem, Ill., and practiced eight years and tbere married Miss Agnes Lester, a native of the State of Virginia.
The Doctor came to Arrow Rock, Saline County Mo., in 1845, practiced here twelve years, then removed to his present home, purchasing a farm of three hundred and fifty acres of fine land, and continuing his practice until his advanced age made it advisable for him to lead a more quiet life.
Dr. Hall's family consists of eight children:
- Dr. C. Lester, a practicing physician of Kansas City;
- William E., who is a banker of the same city;
- Louisa F., wife of William W. Trigg, of Boonville, Cooper County;
- John R., a practicing physician of Marshall;
- Florida L., wife of Dorsey W. Shackleford, of Boonville, a prominent lawyer of that place;
- Thomas B., who resides on the old home farm with his father, and is a practicing physician;
- Mathew W., the present Circuit Clerk; and
- Ettie B., wife of Fred B. Glover, a business man of Kansas City.
Dr. Hall's parents, Rev. Nathan H. and Annie (Crawford) Hall, were from Virginia and Kentucky. The Rev. Nathan Hall preached at the First Presbyterian Church at Lexington, Ky., for twenty-seven consecutive years. Ilis family consisted of seven children, the four sons all being professional men. Both Randall and Nathan Hall, grandfather and great-grandfather of Dr. Hall, were Revolutionary soldiers, and were with Washington at the surrender of Yorktown.
The Halls arc of Scotch extraction, with the strength for which that nationality is noted. The Doctor's great-grandfather was at one time an Episcopal minister, but did not continue in that church, and his son became a Baptist minister, so several denominations have been represented.
Dr. Hall's sons who are doctors are graduates from the St. Louis Medical College, and the older two have taken post-graduate courses in New York. As has been noticed, one of his sons-in-law is a lawyer, adding another professional man to the family. Dr. Hall has been greatly blessed in his children, all seeming to fulfill the expectations that might reasonably have been indulged in with regard to them, and helping to prove the theory of inherited tendencies, as indeed would seem to lie the case with the Doctor himself. In 1861, and again in 1875, Dr. Hall represented Saline County in the Legislature, being elected to that position on the Democratic ticket, having always been an ardent supporterof that party. During the war he was surgeon in Col. Robinson's Regiment, and was taken prisoner on the Black Water River, and sent to McDowell College, and later transferred to Alton, Ill., where, after three or four months, he received his parole. His eldest son. C. Lester, was taken prisonei at the same time. His second son was also in the Confederate army, and served under Joe Shelby.
Dr. Hall is a member of the Mt. Olive Presbyterian Church, of which he is an Elder. His post-office address is Marshall, while his farm is located on section 7, township 49, range 20. It is a fine place, and furnishes plenty of interesting occupation for all the time and strength that the Doctor feels able or inclined to put upon it, and he himself, after a long life of usefulness, has earned the right to take the part now of an interested looker-on and adviser, living over again in the lives of his children, and especially, perhaps, in those of his sons who are following his own profession, the years of his own youth and middle age. Respected in the community, and esteemed by many friends, he is going pleasantly down the slope of this existence toward a new and larger one. Mrs. Hall departed this life at her home, September 17, 1883. ...
... Hon. M. W. Hall, M.D. was born just out of Lexington, Ky., March [sic] 15, 1817, and is a son of the Rev. Nathan H. Hall, who was for thirty years Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lexington. Ky. Our subject's father grew to maturity and was educated at Lexington, where he acquired his degree of Doctor of Medicine in the old medical college. Later he moved to Saline. Ill., where he was engaged in the practice of his profession for twelve years, and while there he was married to Miss Agnes Lester. In February, 1845, he moved to Saline County, Mo., locating at Arrow Rock, where he was soon in requisition as an experienced physician. In 1857 he moved to his present home, twelve miles west of Arrow Rock, and has practiced continuously, with the exception of a short time when he was a prisoner at Alton during the late war, having been captured at the Black Water surrender. He owns a fine farm of which he acquired the preemption papers direct from the Government. This has been the family home since 1857. ...
... [M.W. Hall, M.D.] was a member of the State Legislature in 1861 during the memorable session that voted to carry Missouri out of the Union.
- ↑ 77306080, in Find A Grave
includes headstone photos, last accessed Mar 2024.
- History of Saline County, Missouri: including a history of its townships, cities, towns and villages. (St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Historical, 1881)
851-852.
Dr. Matthew W. Hall, physician and farmer, P. O., Salt Fork. Was born in Washington county, Kentucky, in 1817, and is a son of Rev. Nathan Hall, a well known minister of that state. In 1820 his father moved near Lexington, Kentucky, and remained there until Matthew was twenty years of age. In the spring of 1837 Dr. Hall went to Salem, Illinois, and lived there eight years, and in February, 1845, moved to Arrow Rock, Saline county, where he lived and practiced his profession for twelve years. In 1857 he moved to his farm in Salt Fork township, where he has since resided. Dr. Hall was educated and graduated in medicine at the Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. In 1839 he was married at Salem, Illinois, to Miss Agnes J. Lester, of Charlotte county, Virginia, and has had eleven children, eight of whom are now living: Dr. C. Lester Hall, of Marshall, W. Ewing Hall, Esq., of Kansas City, Dr. John R. Hall, of Marshall; Mrs. Louisa Trigg, of Booneville; Matthew W. Hall, Jr., living in Booneville; Dr. Thomas B. Hall, practicing with his father; Miss Florida Lee Hall and Miss Effie Hall. Dr. Hall is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, membership at Mt. Olive, and also a Free and Accepted Mason, has been a member of the Arrow Rock lodge for thirty-five years. In 1860 Dr. Hall was elected to represent Saline county in the legislature, and was an uncompromising pro-slavery democrat, and earnestly supported the war measures suggested by Gov. Jackson, and attended the session at Neosho. In 1874 Dr. Hall was again elected by the democrats to represent Saline in the legislature. In December, 1861, he was captured with the regiment of recruits on Blackwater, of which he was surgeon. He was taken to St. Louis, then to Alton, paroled to hospital duty, and finally paroled to go home. His oldest son, Dr. C. Lester Hall, now of Marshall, was captured at the same time.
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