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Moses B.Hall'in Good Health, Nearing 100th BirthdayMOSES B. HALL AND OKAND-DAl’OHTER• Special to The TrlrgrofhMarietta, . Pa., Sept. 15.— Moses R.Hall is in his one hundredth year and enjoying the best of health. He was horn in Franklin county, Vermont, in 1815, just five months after the battle of New Orleans. This aged man Is | well versed in the general affairs of the day. When he was ten days old. the battle of Waterloo was fought, and he was born during the second administration of James Madison. He has lived through the lives of all the Presidents of the T’nited States except the first three—Washington, John Adams* and Thomas Jefferson. He was 2!* years old when the first telegraphic message was sent from Baltimore tlt;* Washington, announcing the U'* mocratic nomination of James K. Polk. He was thirteen years old when ground was broken by President John Quincy Adams for the first mile of railroad in the I’nlted States. He was 4 6 years old when the war of the Rebellion broke, and was too old to enlist, and has been sorry ever since, as he says he would certainly have Iik»«i to have gone to the front. The' telegraph, the telephone, the trolley j car, the use of electricity, airships, etc., .have all developed In his lifetime. He has lived through four warswar of 1812-15; Mexican war. 1 846-' 48; Civil war, 1861-65, and Hpantsh-Amcrican war, 18U8. lie left his native State when young, and has since resided in New York, Ohio, Canada and to-day he lives in Pennsylvania, lie is the father of ten children, nine of whom are living. The oldest is Henry Hall, a Civil War veteran of IJnesville, Ph.. 70 years old. Mr. Hall, the subject of this sketch, expects to see the century mark, and is enjoying the best of health. He is at present visiting his daughter, Mrs. C. C. Freeland. 1
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Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Sep 15, 1914
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