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BENNETT HALL, the subject of this sketch, was born in 1834, in the State of Connecticut. His father, Zalmon Hall, was a native of the same place, where he still resides, now more than eighty-eight years of age, and his mother, Malinda Bennett, was also a native of the same state. Bennett Hall was reared and educated at his old home. He learned the carriage-making trade in his early years, and in 1858 removed to Fairbury, Illinois, where he continued in carriage manufacturing until 1862. In this year he enlisted in Company E, of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, serving three years. They were through the siege of Atlanta and the battles following it until Lee’s surrender. After his return from the army to his old home, he remained till 1867, when he came to Carthage, Missouri, engaging as salesman for Thomas & Co., continuing for three years. Subsequently he engaged in the nursery business for some six years, and still operates more or less. Mr. Hall resides one mile from the square, on land which he owns, mostly devoted to a fine orchard. Mr. Hall engaged in the hardware store of Jesse Thacker in 1879, and in 1880 was employed as general manager of the business, which has grown, under his management, to one of the most flourishing business houses of the city. He was married in 1861 to Isabel Smith, a native of New York City. He is a member of the M. E. Church, and the Masonic fraternity, and is widely and favorably known in the county.