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wife. To them was born a family of children, of whom Thusnelda, Edna, David C., Mary, Edmund H., and Elsa are still living.
D. H. HAEGER ESTATE, manufacturers of brick and tile, at Dundee and Gilbert's, custom millers at Dundee and dealers in coal, brick, tile and building material at Dundee and Elgin; established at Dundee in 1871. The present plant consists of the brick and tile factory at Gilbert's, Ill., where thirty men are employed, with an output in 1901 of two million brick and two million feet drain-tile; the factory at Dundee, where thirty-five men are employed, with an output in 1901 of three and a half million brick; and the mill, elevator and retail yards at Elgin-representing in all an investment of $75,000, with eighty men on the pay-rolls.
ALBERT L. HALL, editor and publisher, Elgin, Ill., born on a farm in St. Charles, Kane County, Dec. 28, 1870, son of Gustavus and Mary (Alexander) Hall, spent his early youth under the parental roof-tree, and secured his education ln the Elgin city schools. In 1893 Mr. Hall purchased the "Leland Express," which he published for two years, when it was consolidated with the "Earlville Gazette," the publication of the combined papers being continued at Earlville, as the "La Salle County Gazette-Express." Pour years later having sold the "Gazette-Express," Mr. Hall bought the "St. Charles Chronicle," which he edited and published until 1903. During that year he organized the "Courier Publishing Company," which purchased the "Elgin Daily and Weekly Courier," Mr. Hall becoming business manager and editor of both publications, a position which he still retains. In 1897 he married Miss Frances Rice, of Mediapolis, Iowa.
CHARLES F. HALL, merchant, Dundee, born in Dundee, Ill., Feb. 27, 1846, son of George E. and Helen (Carpenter) Hall, secured his education in the Dundee public school,' Clark's Seminary, Aurora, and Oberlin College. In May, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the fall of that year, when he was mustered out. In 1868 he established himself as a merchant in Dundee, and has been continuously in trade to the present time (1903). He is a member of the Congregational church, and of the Order of Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen, the Knights of the Globe and the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1870 he married Miss Julia Fairchild, of Berea, Madison County,
FRANK H. HALL, noted educator and author, Aurora, Ill., was born in Mechanic Falls, Me., Feb. 9, 1841, and educated in the home schools and in Bates College, Maine. He enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry in the summer of 1862, and accompanying his regiment to the front in Virginia, rendered a soldier's duty until mustered out July 15, 1863. For a year he was engaged in college work at Bates, and then became Principal of Towle Academy, where he remained until 1866, when for two years he was Principal at Earlville, Ill. From 1868 until 1875 he was Principal of the West Side Schools in Aurora, and then took a similar position at Sugar Grove, which he held until 1887, when he was called to Petersburg in the same capacity, but the year following he resumed his old position in Aurora on the West Side. From 1890 to 1893 he was Superintendent of the School for the Blind at Jacksonville, and again from 1897 to July 1902. From 1893 to 1897 he was Superintendent of Schools in Waukegan, Ill. Since his last retirement from the Jacksonville institution he has devoted his time to Farmers' as well as Teachers' Institutes. His series of arithmetics has been extensively introduced into the schools of more than half the States of the Union, and his mechanical ingenuity is shown in his invention of the Braile-writer, and the stereotype-maker, which are in use in many schools for the blind, not only in this country but in Europe and Australia as well. The stereotype-maker was perfected by him in association with Harrison and Seifried.
JERRY HALL, retired merchant, Elburn, Ill., born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1821; educated in Chicago, and attended the first public school of that city; came to Elburn, Ill., and was employed as a clerk in several mercantile establishments until 1888, when he retired from active business life; married on March 17, 1850. Harriet M. Hotchkiss, who died Jan. 5, 1891. Mr. Hall is at the present time (1903) the oldest male settler living in Blackberry Township, Kane County.
