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��HON. JOSHUA G. HALL.

���HON. JOSHUA G. HALL.

��success which he has attained. He was admitted to the Strafford Bar in 1855, and immediately commenced the practice of the profession at Union Village in his native town, where he remained for three years.

Here it may be remarked that Mr. Hall is not the only lawyer of distinction reared in the town of Wakefield. George Y. Sawyer of Nashua, formerly a Jus- tice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and one of the ablest members of the Hills- borough County Bar, is a native of this town — a son of William Sawyer, also a well-known lawyer of his time, who graduated at Cambridge in 1801, being a classmate of the late Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, studied law in Dover with Henry Mellen, Esq., and settled in Wakefield in 1804, subsequently forming a partnership with Josiah H. Hobbs, fa- ther of Frank Hobbs now of Dover, another of the sons of Wakefield who has attained eminence in the legal pro- fession.

��In December. 1858, Mr. Hall removed from Union Village to Dover, and en- tered into partnership with Hon. Samuel M. Wheeler, remaining in company with that gentleman in the practice of the law until 1867, when the co-partnership was dissolved. Since then he has been alone in practice, and has devoted himself un- tiringly to the duties of his profession, winning an enviable reputation as a sound lawyer, and substantial success as a practitioner.

In politics Mr. Hall is a Republican of Whig antecedents, and decided convic- tions, but has never been a politician in the usual acceptation of the term, and has never sought political preferment, though he has frequently been chosen to official positions of honor and trust. He was elected Mayor of Dover in Novem- ber, 1865, and so acceptably discharged the duties of the office that he was re- elected the following year by a nearly unanimous vote, only five ballots, in all, being cast against him. His administra-

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