Jonathan C. Hall (1854 - 1855)
Served on the Iowa
Supreme Court from February 15, 1854, when he was appointed to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the retirement of John F. Kinney, until January 15, 1855.
Born in Batavia County,
New York, February 27, 1808. After attending Wyoming Academy in New York he
engaged in surveying, then studied law at Albany. He first practiced law at
Cleveland and Mt. Vernon in Ohio, In 1840 he came to Iowa and practiced at Mt.
Pleasant and Burlington.
He was a member of the
Eighth and Eighth Extra General Assemblies and of the Constitutional Convention
of 1857, As a member of the convention he was the author of the constitutional
provision for the present public school system. He was also one of the founders
of Iowa Wesleyan College. Justice Hall is credited with the responsibility of
the publication of the Code Revision of 1860. He was, for a time, president of
the Burlington and Missouri Railroad.
Justice Hall died June
11, 1874.
