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- The following is taken directly from the HALLS OF NEW ENGLAND by Rev. David B. Hall, 1883:
"Franklin Hall worked on his father's farm until after his brother David had graduated, then at the age of twenty years he began a course of preparation for a profession, he studied at Millbury Academy and afterwards at Westminster Academy and
at graduation took the valedictory; he studied law in 1843 with Judge Ira M. Barton and Hon. P. C. Baron, of Worcester, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1846 and settled in a good practice at Worcester; in August 1862, he enlisted in Co.
E., 42d Regt., Mass. Vols., Capt. Fred I. Stiles, which joined Gen. Bank's expedition for New Orleans; after with his regiment to Boston and was honorably discharged; but while in the service he contracted a physical disability which has caused
him such sickness and suffering ever since; he was appointed magistrate by Gov. Briggs in 1864; for the sake of a more congenial climate he went to Philadelphia, and engaged in business where he remained four years; he then went to New Orleans
and engaged in the General Newspaper Advertisement Agency alone on a small capital which he has continued with varied success until the preset time; residence Philadelphia, Pa., office 713 Sanson Street; he has kindly furnished the record of
his near of kin and pedigree to Nehemiah Hall, of Uxbridge, Mass. Franklin Hall, Esq., m. in Worcester June 17, 1856."
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