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other positions of trust by the citizens of his state and town. He has ever been a leader in measures for the public good, is a total abstainer from the use of intoxi- cating liquors and tobacco, and believes in the policy of prohibition. His church con- nections are with the evangelical Con- gregational church. In politics he is a Republican.
During the late civil war, in 1864, he was delegated by the United Christian Commission to labor among the wounded soldiers. His special fields of service were at Fredericksburg, Va., immediately after the battle of the Wilderness, where he re- mained until General Grant gave it up in his progress toward Richmond -afterward at the White House Landing, and lastly at Cold Harbor. He arrived at Cold Harbor the day after the terrible battle between the 18th corps and General Lee's army, and remained there until General Grant moved still farther on toward Richmond.
HILL, ARTHUR ASA, son of Alfred and Phœbe (Emerson) Hill, was born in Green- wich, Hampshire county, October 3, 1853.
After receiving the education afforded by the common and high schools, he went
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to Springfield and entered the " Republi- can" office to learn the business. Like many other ambitious but misguided young
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men, however, he desired to begin at the top rather than at the bottom, and after working in various departments, he left for New York City, and entered White- horne's publishing and printing house, at the corner of Nassau and Ann streets. He soon went to Ohio and entered Oberlin College, where he remained long enough to get a smattering of the classics, paying his way by work in the local printing-office. An unusually restless disposition led him to make other changes, and long before he was twenty-one he had been a reporter for the " Cincinnati Gazette," a compositor on the "Chicago Times," and for a year a reporter and city editor of the Toledo (Ohio) "Democrat and Herald." He then drifted back to New York City, became one of the original members of the New York Press Club, and led a Bohemian life. for several years, during which time he was a partner in establishing two papers, a weekly, called " The Lantern," and a daily, " The Morning Telegraph "- both of which were started without capital and soon came to an end.
Seven years ago Mr. Hill, with a partner, purchased the "Haverhill Evening Ga- zette," a journal at that time with an uncer- tain tenure of life. Under his editorial management the "Gazette " has increased more than five-fold in circulation.
Mr. Hill has served on the school board, but he has never been an office-seeker nor fond of public prominence. As an editor, he is aggressive and energetic. Politically he is a Republican.
Mr. Hill is unmarried.
HILL, ARTHUR GAYLORD, son of Samuel Lapham and Roxana M. (Gaylord) Hill, was born in Northampton, Hampshire county, December 6, 1841.
The public schools furnished him with his early educational training. He fitted for college in the Allen Brothers' school, West Newton, and was graduated bachelor of science from Harvard College in the class of 1864.
From 1865 to '85 he was assistant treasurer of the Nonotuck Silk Company, Florence. He was afterwards partner in the firm of Martin & Hill, manufacturers of cash-railways.
He is president of the Whitney Safety Fire Arms Company ; president of the Northampton board of trade ; director in the Florence Furniture Company ; treas- urer of the Florence Kindergarten ; vice- president of the Lilly Library Association, and interested in several manufacturing companies and social organizations.
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He has been grand dictator of the Knights of Honor for Massachusetts ; a prominent member of the Free Congregational society of Florence, and member of the school board of Northampton. He has also served as alderman and mayor of Northampton.
In his earlier years, Mr. Hill enjoyed considerable celebrity in the national game of base ball, having been captain of the Florence club, 1865, '66 and '67, when this team was one of the most noted in New England. He was also manager of the Florence Dramatic Club, organized in 1863 to raise funds wherewith to purchase and send supplies to the soldiers. This organ- ization is still in existence.
Mr. Hill was married in Northampton, July 7, 1869, to Kate Elizabeth, daughter of Eli and Julia C. (Clapp) Edwards. Of this union were four children : Florence Gaylord, Marion Louise, Annie Edwards and Samuel Irving Hill (the last two de- ceased).
HILL, DON GLEASON, son of George and Sylvia Hill, was born July 12, 1847, at West Medway, Norfolk county. His father, who was a carpenter, had not the means to give his children an education, but taught them his trade, at which Mr. Hill was early put to work in order to earn the money necessary for future study.
By close application and strict economy he was enabled at an early age to attend school at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbra- ham. He was educated at Amherst Col- lege, class of 1869, and at the law school of the University of Albany, N. Y., from which he received the degree of LL. B., May, 1870, and soon after was admitted to the bar of New York.
Returning to Medway he was for a time a student in the office of Charles H. Deans, but in June, 1871, he removed to Dedham, and entered the law office of the late Hon. Waldo Colburn. Upon the recommenda- tion of Mr. Colburn he was admitted to the Norfolk county bar, September 25, 1871, and remained with him until June, 1875, when Mr. Colburn was appointed to the bench. Mr. Hill then began active practice in the office left him by his able instructor.
In October, 1875, a law partnership was formed with Charles A. Mackintosh, an- other of Judge Colburn's students, under the firm name of Hill & Mackintosh, which continued a number of years. For several years past Mr. Hill has devoted himself almost exclusively to practice in probate and real estate law and convey- ancing.
In 1875 he succeeded Judge Colburn as attorney of the Dedham Institution for Savings, and is also one of its trustees ; he is also the attorney of the Braintree Savings Bank, and frequently employed by other banks throughout the county. In 1880 he was elected to, and has since con- tinued to hold, the office of town clerk of Dedham.
He takes a lively interest in antiquarian pursuits, and has recently edited two important volumes of ancient records - one of the births, marriages, and deaths recorded with the town records from 1635 to 1845 ; the other of the church records in
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the town, covering the same period. At his suggestion, and under his direction, the town has caused them to be printed.
In 1882 he was elected a selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor, to which offices he has at times been re-elected, and at present is serving in the same capacity. He is a director in the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and one of the trustees of the Dedham public library. The Dedham Historical Society, of which he is president, owes much of its present prosperity to his efforts during his membership. He has for several years been a member of the New England His- toric Genealogical Society.
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At the 250th anniversary of Dedham's incorporation, in 1886, his familiarity with the ancient landmarks of the town ena- bled him to be of great service on the committee having in charge the marking of historic spots. The county commis- sioners of Norfolk county having deter- mined to have the proprietors' records in the ancient towns in the county tran- scribed, have recently appointed Mr. Hill to superintend this work.
He is a member of the first committee appointed to distribute the interest of the fund recently bequeathed the town by the late Hannah Shuttleworth for the relief of the needy poor. The work of the com- mittee is to try to prevent people from becoming paupers, by assisting and ena- bling them to help themselves.
In December, 1876, he married Carrie Louisa Luce of Dedham, and has five chil- dren : Carrie Frances, Helen Florence, Don Gleason, Jr., Maria Louisa, and Alice Laura Hill.
HILL, FREDERIC STANHOPE, son of Frederic Stanhope and Mary Welland (Blake) Hill, was born in Boston, August 4, 1829.
He received his early educational train- ing in Brattleborough, Vt., and at the Friends' Academy, New Bedford.
In 1842, following the fashion of other youths of Boston, and the traditions of his family, he went to sea, and as is the fre- quent experience of those who for a few years are attracted by a sailor's life, he abandoned the ocean, was in California in 1849-'51, then returned East. He was then employed in the Boston post-office, 1852 to '56, and in the custom house, 1856 to '60, and at the same time he was a writer on the "Boston Post," and a regular corre- spondent of " The New Yorker," a literary journal of that city.
At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed acting master, United States navy, and ordered to the U. S. S. " Rich- mond." He was in all of Farragut's bat- tles, eight engagements, and at the admi- ral's special request, after the capture of New Orleans, in 1863 was promoted to lieutenant, United States navy, and ordered to a command on the blockade of the coast of Texas, and later commanded the iron- clad " Benton " and the "Tyler" in the Mississippi squadron.
After the war was over, he resigned, and re-entering journalism, founded the " Daily News," Chester, Pa., and later the " Daily Press," Middletown, N. Y., both still four- ishing journals. He passed five years in
Europe, and in 1886 he purchased the old "Cambridge Chronicle," Cambridge, which he owns and successfully manages at the present time. He has also done much other literary work in various directions.
Mr. Hill is a warden and treasurer of Christ church, Cambridge, and a member of the Episcopalian Club of Massachusetts.
He was married in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1861, to Caroline, daughter of Samuel and Evelina (Brown) Tyson. Of this union is one child : Gertrude Blake Hill, who married Dr. Lawrence Montgomery Stanton of New York City.
Mr. Hill is a member of the G. A. R.
HILL, HAMILTON ANDREWS, son of Hamilton and Anna (Andrews) Hill, was born in London, England, April 14, 1827.
His early school training was received in the public schools of his native city. After coming to this country, he studied in Oberlin College, Ohio, of which his father was treasurer for many years. He left be- fore completing his full collegiate course, but subsequently received his degree of A. M. from that institution in 1867. He also received the honorary degree of A. M. from Williams College in 1868.
He entered business life in Boston, in 1849, as a shipping and commission mer- chant, in the British-American and English trade. In 1867 he was made secretary of the Boston board of trade, and held the position until 1873. He has been secre- tary of the national board of trade, with a brief interval when he was living in Europe, since 1868. He was special com- missioner of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co., on European immigra- tion, from 1873 to '75.
Mr. Hill was a member of the House of Representatives, 1878, '79, 'So and 'SI, serving as chairman of the committee on finance, and the committee on harbors and public lands. In 1878 and '79 he was a member of the board of state charities. He is a member of the American Philo- sophical Society, and of the American Historical Association. He is a vice-presi- dent of the American Statistical Associa- tion, and he has been a director in, and treasurer of, the American Social Science Association ; he was corresponding secre- tary of, and is now a director in, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and a director in the Bostonian Society.
He was chairman of a commission ap- pointed by the mayor of Boston to report upon annexation in 1873.
Mr. Hill is the author of " A Memoir of Abbott Lawrence," "The History of the
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Old South Church," and various commer- cial and historical pamphlets and reports ; he was contributor of one of the chapters in the " Memorial History of Boston," vol. iv., published by Ticknor & Co.
Mr. Hill was married in Roxbury, May 4, 1859, to Miriam Phillips, daughter of Samuel Hurd and Mehetabel Sumner (Bates) Walley. She died August 31, I 862.
Mr. Hill's second marriage occurred in Boston, May 27, 1869, with Anna Frances, daughter of .Charles and Mary Anna (Bachi) Carruth. He has two children : Anna Carruth and Hamilton Hill.
HILL, HERBERT E., son of Enos and Sarah (Randall) Hill, was born in Boston, December 18, 1845. He came of ances- tral stock noted in the annals of military fame. His father, a prosperous merchant, losing his health through an accident, re- moved to Vermont, where he died, leaving a widow and five children.
Herbert, the eldest son, received his education in the grammar and high schools of that state, and at the age of seventeen entered the ranks of the 8th Vermont vol- unteers ; was in every battle and skirmish after his enlistment with that famous regi- ment, in the campaigns in Louisiana, Miss- issippi, and the renowned campaign of Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. After this campaign, Colonel Hill was detached from the regiment and assigned to duty at headquarters, in Washington, where, among other work, he was connected with the search for J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. He was promoted for meritorious conduct, and came home with a most honorable record.
At the close of the war Colonel Hill re- turned to Boston, where he resided four years, and then removed to Somerville, his present residence. Governor Rice com- missioned him captain and senior aide-de- camp on the staff of General Moore, Massa- chusetts militia. Governor Talbot made him assistant adjutant-general of the State, with rank of colonel. He followed Colo- nel King as commander of Willard C. Kins- ley Post 139, G. A. R., of Somerville. For four years Colonel Hill was a department officer, G. A. R., serving in the council of administration as vice-commander of the department, and afterward was honored by being made vice-commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. in the United States.
No citizen of Somerville has done more than Mr. Hill to perpetuate historic spots and memories. The beautiful memorial battery on Central Hill, Somerville, the
marble shaft on the battie-field of Win- chester, Va., and the monument on the bat- tle-ground of Cedar Creek are witnesses of his generosity and perseverance. No- vember 2, 1866, the Vermont Senate and House of Representatives unanimously adopted resolutions declaring "That the patriotic act of Col. Herbert E. Hill (now of Boston) in placing enduring monu- ments to mark these sacred spots, merits the gratitude of the people of this State, and we hereby tender him the thanks of the General Assembly."
Colonel Hill has written several war articles, descriptive of battle scenes, for the Vermont State Military History recently published, also a notable account of "Sher- idan's Ride," which has been copied by the press throughout the country.
Politically, Colonel Hill has been promi- nent and active. In 1880 he was chosen to bear the electoral vote of Massachu- setts to Washington for Garfield and Ar- thur. He was elected to represent Somer- ville at the centennial celebration at Lex- ington and Concord ; had charge of the regimental troops at the centennial cele- bration, Bunker Hill, June 17, 1875 ; was on the Massachusetts examining board for admission of candidates to West Point, and was delegate to the Soldiers' national convention at Chicago. He was three years secretary of the Middlesex Club, Boston, and personally secured from Gen- eral Grant a week's visit to the city of Bos- ton in 1880.
Colonel Hill is a successful Boston mer- chant, a member of the large cotton house of Hill & Cutler ; he has never accepted local office except as commissioner of water- works, and in connection with charitable work, member of the board of overseers of the poor, and one of the board of man- agers of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, in Boston, and trustee of one of Moody's schools for Christian workers in Springfield.
Colonel Hill was married at Somerville, on the 9th day of January, 1873, to Emma O., daughter of Richard and Sarah Jane (Wheelwright) Rich. They have one child: Herbert Pierce Hill.
HILL, LUTHER, son of Washington and Almira (Kent) Hill, was born in Spencer, Worcester county, November 22, 1825.
He obtained his early education in the common schools of his native town, sup- plemented by short terms of attendance at Wilbraham and Leicester academies.
From the time he left school, at fourteen years of age, till he reached his majority,
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his occupation was teaming, farming and clerking in his father's store. He was apt and ready, more fond of adventure than of study. Soon after his majority he pur- chased a store in Spencer, where he carried on the business of general trade. He was soon appointed postmaster, which position he held eight years. He was also deputy sheriff under Col. James Esta-
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brook, then Democratic sheriff of Worces- ter county. Mr. Hill was a Jeffersonian Democrat in those days, and a leader in that political faith up to the breaking out of the civil war, and for some time thereafter was classed as a " War Democrat." He was appointed a trial justice, and has tried more than six thousand criminal cases, there being no district court established in Spencer. Mr. Hill's law came to him by intuition, his decisions reaching to the justice of the case, trimmed of technicali- ties and quibbles.
In 1851 he sought the gold-fields of California, going by way of the Isthmus. En route he made the acquaintance of a gentleman with whom he formed a part- nership in the hotel business. In a few months he returned East, for the purpose of settling his affairs, expecting to return to the Pacific slope for a permanent resi- dence. Circumstances, however, did not
favor his return. His business in San Francisco was sold, and he remained in Massachusetts, retaining his former offices.
Mr. Hill has always been distinguished for his public spirit, and is among the fore- most to advocate liberal appropriations for public schools, and the furnishing of suit- able buildings. It was largely through his influence that Spencer has a paying rail- road connecting the village with the Bos- ton & Albany. The town is also indebted to him for its excellent water and sewage systems. They are literally the work of his hands. The Spencer gas works are also the result of his public spirit.
Mr. Hill is emphatically a self-made man, and his sympathies are with the labor- ing classes. He is a natural leader of men, prompt and fearless in following his convictions -never shirking a responsi- bility.
His business life, successful as it has been, experienced a reverse in 1862 that left him without a dollar. This was brought about by the rebel Quantrell's raid into Kansas, burning the town of Lawrence, where Mr. Hill was so heavily involved that he was obliged to turn over all of his eastern property to his creditors. To a man of his energy this was, however, only a matter incident to chances in busi- ness life.
Mr. Hill has represented his district in the Legislature for six times, five in the House, and once in the Senate. He has been selectman of Spencer thirteen years, and was the leading spirit in town affairs during the war, both before and after he left the ranks of the Democrats. He is the president and general manager of the Spencer Gas Company, and the Spencer Railroad Company.
Mr. Hill was married in Spencer, March 2, 1856, to Louise A., daughter of Daniel and Fannie (Mead) Granger. They have no children.
Mr. Hill is a staunch Republican. His attitude on the temperance question is most satisfactory to the friends of law and order. . They rely upon him with implicit confidence to execute the law. He wor- ships with those "who live to help one another." This is his religion, but his con- tributions are liberal to the support of all church organizations in town, of whatever creed.
HILL, WILLIAM HENRY (Jr.), only son of William H. and Abby F. (Remich) Hill, was born in Boston, July 14, 1838.
His early education was obtained in the private and public schools of Boston and
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Roxbury. After his graduation from the Roxbury high school, he made an early connection in business as a clerk in the publishing firm of Sanborn, Carter & Ba- zin, and continued with their successors, Brown, Taggard & Chase. At his major- ity he became a partner in a publishing and book concern, under the firm name of Chase, Nichols & Hill. Two years later he retired from the firm and continued a book and publishing business under his own name for a period of six years, until the spring of 1869.
Mr. Hill was married in Boston, January 8, 1863, to Sarah E., daughter of William B. and Susan J. (Warren) May. They have had as children : Warren May, Har- old St. James, Marion, Clarence Harvey,
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Spencer Richardson, Ernest Lawrence, William Henry Reginald, Donald Mackay, Barbara, Philip Sanford and Kenneth Amory Hill, of whom Harold, Barbara and Philip are deceased.
Mr. Hill is at present a member of the firm of Richardson, Hill & Co., bankers, Boston. He is also president and general manager of the Boston & Bangor Steam- ship Company, and as president, director, or trustee is connected with, and interested in, many manufacturing, insurance, and transportation companies.
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Mr. Hill's career has been one of con- tinued growth and strength. It has been somewhat unusual in one regard : while the son of a prominent and wealthy merchant (one long known in the mercantile commun- ity of the city of Boston, especially among the older merchants, for his sagacity and integrity), yet he has by his own unaided efforts made his own fortune, and acquired a conspicuously honorable standing among the enterprising, successful, and reliable men of affairs in the city of his birth.
HILL, WILLIAM M., son of Alexander A. and Ruth (Millett) Hill, was born in Salem, Essex county, August 16, 1831.
He received his early education in the public schools of Salem.
Upon leaving school he learned the cur- rier's trade, and continued in various de- partments of that trade for twenty years. In 1884 he commenced in the real estate and fire insurance business at Salem, which he now carries on.
He was for several years a member of the state detective force, chief of police in Salem three years ; served in the common council four years, being president of that body three years ; member of the school committee four years ; was trustee of the Salem water loan sinking fund for four years, and mayor of the city of Salem for 1883 and '84.
He was grand master of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Massachusetts, in which capacity he attended sessions of the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Denver, Col., in 1887, and at Los Angeles, Cal., in 1 888.
Mr. Hill was married at Salem to Annie M., daughter of Daniel B. and Nancy (Foote) Lord. He has one daughter : Annie Lord, wife of Edward F. Dalton of Salem.
HILLMAN, BERIAH T., son of Owen and Charlotte Hillman, was born in Chil- mark, Dukes county, January 28, 1843.
He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of nineteen entered the normal school, Bridgewater, where he remained one term, then enlisted in company K. 43d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, which took part in the campaign under General Foster in North Carolina during the winter of 1862-'63, and the following spring. The term of service of the regi- ment had expired and it had reached Bal- timore on its way home while the battle of Gettysburg was being fought. He then volunteered to go to the front, where he
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remained until the Confederate army was all south of the Potomac. In the autumn of 1863 he re-entered the school, and remained there until the following summer, and then enlisted as 2d lieutenant in company C, 60th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. Having served out his term of enlistment, he again returned to the normal school, and was graduated July 26, 1865. After graduating he engaged in teaching in the Boston "Farm school," and later in the towns of Chilmark, Barn- stable and Quincy. From 1874 to '76 he carried on a country store at West Tisbury. He is now a teacher in Chilmark.
Mr. Hillman was married at Woonsocket, R. I., August 7, 1867, to Abby B., daugh- ter of Horace M. and Anna H. Pierce. Of this union are six children : Anna Helen, Horace Owen, Fannie Beal, Arthur Beriah, Walter Pierce and Charlotte Hill- man.
Mr. Hillman has been treasurer of the town of Chilmark fifteen years, collector of taxes four years, and member of the school board seven years. He represented Dukes county in the Legislature, 1875 and '86, the latter year serving on the committee on education. He is a trial justice, and chairman of the Republican county and town committees.
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