Philo Hall

Philo Hall was a South Dakota attorney and politician. He served as Attorney General of South Dakota and a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Philo Hall was born in Wilton Township, Waseca County, Minnesota on December 31, 1865, the son of Mary E. and Philo Hall, a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War. His parents ran a hotel in Wilton, and the family moved to Brookings, Dakota Territory after the 1883 death of the senior Philo Hall. The younger Philo hall was educated in Wilton and Brookings, studied law with Judge J. O. Andrews, was admitted to the bar in 1887, and practiced in Brookings.

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