Hill, Benjamin Harvey – Hill, John
Hill, Benjamin Harvey
lawyer, United States senator, congressman, author, was born Sept. 14, 1823, in Jasper county, Ga. In 1851 he was elected to the Georgia state legislature; was an unsuccessful candidate for congress in 1855, and for governor in 1857. He was again a representative in the state legislature in 1859 and1860; and was a presidential elector in 1861. In 1875 he was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy; and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress. He was elected a senator of the United States from Georgia for the term of six years from March 4, 1877. He was the author of Notes on the Situation; and Address to the People of Georgia. He died Aug. 19, 1882, in Atlanta, Ga.
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 Bennett
lawyer, journalist, governor, United States senator, was born Aug. 29, 1843, in Havana, N. Y.
He was appointed city attorney of Elmira; and in 1868 was a delegate to the democratic state convention. In 1870 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; was reelected in 1871.
In 1881 he was elected member of the common council of Elmira; and in 1882 a was elected mayor of Elmira. In the fall of the same year he was elected lieutenant-governor of New York; and in 1884 became governor of the state of New York. In 1886 he was elected governor for a full term of four years, and in 1891 was elected to the United States senate as a democrat.
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.
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.
Hill, Edward Judson
lawyer, author, was born in New York. He is a lawyer of Chicago; and the author of Common Law Jurisdiction in Illinois; Chancery Jurisdiction in Illinois; Probate Jurisdiction in Illinois; and Municipal Offices in Illinois.
Hill, Frances M
missionary, was born in New York. As an American missionary to Greece she greatly aided the cause of female education in that country. She died Aug. 5, 1884, in Athens, Greece.
Hill, Frank Alpine
educator, littérateur, was born Oct. 12, 1841, in Biddeford, Maine. He is now secretary of the Massachusetts state board of education.
He has written extensively for the press and as a public lecturer is well known. He was the editor of the revised Holmes' Series of Readers.
Hill, Frederic Stanhope
journalist, author, was born in 1829 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of Cambridge; and the author of Twenty Years at Sea, or Leaves from my Old Log- Books; and Historical Continuity of the Anglican Church.
Hill, George
author, poet, was born in 1796 in Guilford, Conn. He was a verse writer who held several government clerkships, and after 1835 lived at Guilford, his native town. He was the author of Ruins of Athens, and Other Poems; and Titania's Banquet, and Other Poems. He died Dec. 15, 1871, in New York.
Hill, George Canning
author, was born in 1825 in Connecticut. He is the author of Lives of Captain John Smith, Israel Putnam, Benedict Arnold, Daniel Boone; Homespun, or Five and Twenty Years Ago; and Our Parish, or Pen Paintings of Village Life.
Hill, George William
astronomer, inventor, author, was born March 3, 1838, in New York city. His researches on the lunar theory have attracted attention, and in 1887 he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical society of London for his investigations. He is the author of upward of forty articles and memoirs. on
Hill, Hugh Clement
lawyer, was born in Massachusetts. In 1870 he was appointed an assistant attorney general of the United States.
Hill, Hugh L. W
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849. was
Hill, Isaac
journalist, governor, United States senator, was born Aug. 7, 1788, in Somerville, Mass. He was twice chosen clerk of the state senate; once a representative in the legislature; and was elected a member of the state senate in 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1827. In 1829 he was appointed second comptroller of the treasury, and held the office until 1830. He returned to New Hampshire, and was elected United States senator for six years, from 1831; in 1836 he resigned his senatorship, after being elected governor of New Hampshire; and was elected in 1837 and 1838. In 1840 he was appointed sub-treasurer at Boston. He died March 22, 1851, in Washington, D. C. re-
Hill, James J
railroad president, was born Sept. 16, 1838, in Canada. The St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba company is now identified with the Great Northern railway system, of which Mr.
Hill became president in 1890. Since he took charge of its affairs, the railway system has been extended from 380 to 4,500 miles, creating an unbroken line, through the several states, from Lake Superior and St. Paul to Puget Sound on the Pacific coast. The company also now owns a superb fleet of steamships on the great lakes, the passenger steamers not being surpassed in speed, design or accommodations by any of the great Atlantic lines.
Hill, John
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841. con-
Hill, John
state legislator, gressman, was born in Stokes county, N.
C. He served many years in the legislature of the state; and was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1841.
Hill, John
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born June 10, 1821, in Catskill, N. Y. In 1860 he was elected to the state legislature; was twice re-elected, and was made speaker of the assembly. In 1866 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortieth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfirst and forty-second congresses. He was a state senator from 1875 to 1878; and was again a representative in the fortyseventh congress. He died July 24, 1884, in Boonton, N. J.