Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — B. J. HALL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

B. J. HALL.

A Portrait and Sketch of the New Commissioner of Patents. Hon. Benton J. Hall, of Bnrlington, lowa, who has been appointed Commissioner of Patents, in place of Col. M. Y.

Montgomery, resigned, will assume the duties of the office May 1. Mr. Hall was bom at Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1835. He was educated at Knox College, Illinois, and at Miami University, Ohio. In June, 1855, he was graduated from the last-named institution. Betuming to Burlington, he read law in his father’s office, and was admitted to the bar after two years. Since 1857 he has been izx practice at Burlington, of which place he is a distinguished citizen.