From the History of Mower County, 1911:

Reuben Oscar Hall, a retired business man of Austin, and one of the honored old residents of Mower county, was born in Rochester, Vt., January 10, 1829, son of Reuben and Marena (Brown) Hall. He received his early education in the district schools of his neighborhood, and took one year's course in the high school at Rutland, Vt. He came west in 1850, and located in Wisconsin, farming summers and teaching school winters for six years. In 1856 he went to Mendota, Ill., and there engaged in the grocery business until 1866, in which year he went to Wheaton, Ill., a short distance out of Chicago, in DuPage county, and purchased a farm. Three years later, in 1869, he went to Dixon, Ill., and engaged in the flour business four years. The year 1873 dates his arrival in Austin. In that year he came here and opened a dry goods store in partnership with his son-in-law, Col. Charles L. West. After twenty-six years' constant attention to this business, he sold the business to Colonel West and retired. Then he spent nearly two years in California and one year traveling in the southern states. Mr. Hall is a Republican in politics, having been an Abolitionist and a Prohibitionist also; has served as sheriff of Mower county four years, from 1875 to 1879; has been alderman of Austin from the second ward, and has done excellent service to the city as chairman of the Austin board of education. He is a high degree Mason, and has been a trustee of the Methodist church for over forty years. The subject of this sketch was married April 8, 1852, to Frances Annette Smith, a native of Schoharie county, New York, born April 8, 1834, and died July 25, 1896, leaving six living children. Eliza Marena, born May 4, 1856, in Mendota, Ill., is now Mrs. Lyman D. Baird. Charlotte Cerucia, born January 6, 1853, in Winnebago county, Wisconsin, married Col. C. L. West, and is now deceased. Frank O., born July 29, 1860, in Mendota, Ill., is a groceryman of Austin. Adelbert Eugene, born July 16, 1871, in Dixon, Ill., is agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company, at Madison, S. D. Fred H., born September 12, 1869, in Dixon, Ill., lives in Kansas and travels for the Marshall Field Company, of Chicago. Jay Mason, born March 25, 1873, is a St. Paul dentist. Mr. Hall was married the second time August 31, 1897, to Alice Gertrude Harvey, of Woodstock, Vt., daughter of George W. and Caroline (Conant) Harvey, of Woodstock, Vt., the former being still living and the latter dead. To this union have been born two children: Louise Elizabeth, born February 18, 1899, and Reuben Harvey, born April 17, 1905. It is worthy of note that the old Harvey homestead in Woodstock, Vt., has been in the family since the time of Mrs. Hall's great-great-grandfather in revolutionary times, and is now owned by Mrs. Hall's father, G. W. Harvey. Edmond Harvey, Mrs. Hall's great-great-grandfather, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.

Contributor:
Janet Stephenson
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Reuben and "Nettie" were the parents of 11 known children:

Charlotte C. 1853-1901
Infant son 1854-1854
Eliza Marena "Lila" 1857-1923
Harley Wesley 1858-1858
Infant son 1859-1859
Frank Oscar 1860-1948
Charles Henry 1863-1864
Harry Herbert 1865-1869
Fred Herbert 1869-1939
Adelbert Eugene "Bert" 1871-1941
Jay Mason 1873-1946

Reuben and Alice were the parents of 2 children:

Louise Elizabeth 1899-1976
Harvey Reuben 1905-1998