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HALL, George B.

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 209

George B. HALL, town clerk and insurance agent, Roxbury [Washington County, 
Vermont], was born 24 June 1844 at Richmond [Chittenden County, Vermont], son 
of Benjamin and Lovina Delight (CARROLL) HALL. Educated in the public 
schools, at Northfield High School, and at Vermont Conference Seminary, 
Montpelier [Washington County, Vermont]. Has taught in the public schools, 
been pension attorney, clerked in a general store, and conducted a small 
insurance business. Enlisted in 1862 in Company I, Ninth Vermont Infantry; 
transferred to Company B, Second Battalion, Seventeenth U. S. Infantry in 
1863; re-enlisted in the Third Vermont Battery 1863; and was discharged in 
1865 at the close of the war [Civil War officially ended April 1865]. Was in 
the battles of Harper's Ferry 1862, Chancellorsville 1863, Petersburg Mine 
1864, and Petersburg in March and April 1865. Member Republican county 
committee; justice of the peace 1878-1888; town clerk 1903 to present time. 
Methodist. Member of Mad River Lodge No. 77, Free & Accepted Masons; King 
Solomon Chapter No. 7, Royal Arch Masons; Montpelier Council No. 4, Royal and 
Select Masons; Mount Zion Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar; Mount Sinai 
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine; Gamaliel Washington 
Lodge of Perfection, fourteen degrees; Mount Calvary Council, Princes of 
Jerusalem, sixteen degrees; Delta Chapter of Rose Croix, eighteen degrees; 
Vermont Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, thirty-two degrees; 
Northfield Lodge No. 19, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; past commander 
William H. Boynton Post No. 94, Grand Army of the Republic; ex-delegate to 
National Encampment, aide-de-camp to commander-in-chief, and junior vice 
commander Department of Vermont. In 1877 he [George B. HALL] married [Miss?] 
Evelyn S. PEARSON of Roxbury; they have one son, Homer Perl.

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