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Hill, Henry Barker

educator, author, was born April 27, 1849, in Waltham, Mass. He has been a professor of chemistry at Harvard university since 1879; and is the author of Notes He has Qualitative Analysis. served twice as burgess of Norwalk; and twice as chairman of the board of school visitors of Norwalk. He was the fourth district delegate to the national republican convention of 1884; and was a member of the Connecticut senate for 1886-87. He served one term upon the republican state central committee; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

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