City: Gallatin
HALL, William, banker; born near Castalian Springs, Tenn., March 17, 1848; son of William Harrison and Sarah Winseanna (McDaniel) HALL; father was a farmer and Colonel of the Co. Militia, and soldier in the Florida war; paternal grandparents Gov. William and Mary Brandon(Alexander) HALL; maternal grandparents Winston and Lydia (Winchester) McDANIEL; educated in the country schools and Rural Academy, Castalian Springs, Tenn.; worked on farm for twenty-five years, then clerked in a country store and taught school five months, then went to Louisville as hotel clerk of the Alexander Hotel, afterward became bookkeeper in a bank, his health failed him then and he went back to the farm; ran a custom flour mill and engaged in making ax handles by machinery; elected assistant cashier and later cashier of the 1st National Bank, Gallatin, Tenn., which position he now holds; interested in farm lands, bank stock and is president of Mutual Fire Insurance Co., director in Southern Insurance Co.; Democrat; formerly Circuit Court Clerk Sumner Co. for six years, and chairman of the Co. Court of Sumner Co., Tenn., six years, now Justice of the Peace; married Mary Brandon MENTLO Oct. 14, 1874; member of the Church of Christ.
