caption death_date death_place birth_place other_names name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation
j. m. hall , undated photo 26 may 1935 tulsa , oklahoma marshall county , tennessee j. m. hall , james m. hall james monroe hall 12 april 1851 j. m. hall
 james monroe hall merchant , civic leader
j. m. hall

james monroe hall -lrb- 1851 -- 1935 -rrb- came to the town of tulsa in what was then known as indian territory .
james and his brother , harry c. hall , operated a tent store that had followed the route of the atlantic and pacific railroad and selected the site where the road would stop at tulsa .
they initially selected a site where the railroad crossed what would become lewis avenue and pitched a tent for the store there .
this location was just inside the boundary of the cherokee nation .
when the halls discovered that the creek nation had less restrictions on the activities of white merchants , they moved the store a couple of miles west to what would become first street and erected a more permanent wooden building .
