Judge James Hall
Another member of our circle was Judge James Hall, then editor of the Western Monthly Magazine, whose name is known both in Europe and America. He also, in the long time that elapsed before his death, accomplished much and good work as a writer, citizen and man of business. The Western Monthly Magazine, which he then edited, was an excellent periodical, to which many of the literary young men of Cincinnati contributed. Judge Hall left the magazine to become cashier and president, of the Commercial Bank, a much more profitable business. In the meanwhile he published several stories, novels, and essays on the West, which made him widely known, and deserves the success they receive, by their very pleasant style and pictures of Western life.
From Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe; Pub. 1888