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Hill, Adams Sherman – Hill, Henry Alexander

Hill, Adams Sherman

educator, author, was born in 1833 in Massachusetts. He has been the Boylston professor of rhetoric at Harvard university since 1876; and is the author of Our English; The Principles of Rhetoric; and The Foundations of Rhetoric.

HILL, MRS. AGNES LEONARD [SCANLAND], author, poet, was born in 1842 in Kentucky. She is the author of Mollie Myrtle; Myrtle Blossoms; Vanquished, a novel; and Heights and Depths.

Hill, Ambrose Powell

soldier, was born Nov. 9, 1825, in Culpeper county, Va. He attained the rank of brigadiergeneral. He died April 7, 1865, in Petersburg, Va.

Hill, Benjamin Dionysius

clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1842 in England. He is a Roman catholic clergyman and educator, for some time at Notre Dame university, who has published Poems Devotional and Occasional.

Hill, Britton Armstrong

lawyer, author, was born in 1818 in New Jersey. He is a prominent lawyer of St.

Louis; and the author of Liberty and Law under Federative Government; Absolute Money; and Specie Resumption and National Bankruptcy Identical.

Hill, Charles Augustus

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1833, in Truxton, N. Y. He enlisted in company F, eighth Illinois cavalry in 1862, and was in the battle of Antietam.

He was elected state's attorney in 1868 for the counties of Will and Grundy; declined a renomination, and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed assistant attorneygeneral of the state.

Hill, Clement S

congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.

Hill, Daniel Harvey

soldier, mathematician, author, was born in 1821 in South Carolina. He was a noted mathematician who held professorships in several southern colleges before and since the civil war, but during that conflict was a general in the confederate army. He was the author of Elements of Algebra; Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount; and The Crucifixion of Christ. He died Sept. 25, 1889, in Charlotte, N. C.

Hill, David H

lawyer, legislator, jurist, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1833, in North Berwick, Maine. He was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature in 1870-71, and since 1880 has been judge of probate of his county. His poems have appeared in standard publications.

Hill, David Jayne

educator, college president, author, was born June 10, 1850, in Plainfield, N. J. He is an educator of note, president of the Lewisburg university, Pa., since 1879, and subsequently of the university of Rochester, N. Y. He is the author of Science of Rhetoric; Elements of Rhetoric; Life of Washington Irving; Life of Bryant; Principles and Fallacies of Socialism; Social Influences of Christianity; The Elements of Psychology; and Genetic Philosophy.

Hill, Ebenezer J

business man, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1845, in Redding, Conn. He is president of the Norwalk Gas Light company, and vice-president of the National bank of Norwalk.

Hill, Hamilton Andrews

author, was born in 1827 in England. He was a Boston writer who published History of the Old South Church, Boston, 1669-1884; and Memoir of Abbot Lawrence. He died in 1895.

Hill, Henry Alexander

educator, college president, was born Nov. 6, 1844, in New Orleans, La. In 1884 he became a teacher in the Southern university, New Orleans, La.; and in 1887 was elected its president.