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204 a stubborn fight at Boonesboro. He also partici- pated in the battle of Fredericksburg. During the Chancellorsville campaign he was in command in North Carolina, and during the Gettysburg campaign he commanded the defences of Rich- mond and Petersburg. On 11 July, 1863, he was commissioned lieutenant-general and placed at the head of a corps in Bragg's army. He was at Chickamauga, and shared the fortunes of the Army of Tennessee, until he surrendered with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina in April, 1865. For some years after the war he edited " The Land We Love," a monthly magazine, which he founded at Charlotte, N. C. In 1877 he was elected president of the University of Arkansas, and afterward president of the Military and agri- cultural college of Georgia at Milledgeville. Gen. Hill was a contributor to current literature, and published an algebra, "A Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount" (Philadelphia, 1858), and " The Crucifixion of Christ " (1860).

HILL, David Bennett, governor of New York, b. in Havana, Chemung (now Schuyler) co., N. Y., 29 Aug., 1843. He was educated in the common schools and at the academy of his native place, and became a clerk in a lawyer's office in Havana, but in 1863 went to Elmira, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was ap- pointed in that year city attorney, and became ac- tively interested in politics. He has been many times a delegate to Democratic state conventions since 1868, was president of those that were held in 1877 and 1881, and was also a delegate to the National conventions of 1876 and 1884. In 1870 and 1871 he was chosen to the legislature. In 1882 he was elected mayor of Elmira. In Novem- ber of the same year he was elected lieutenant- governor of New York. On the resignation of Gov. Cleveland in 1884, Mr. Hill became governor of the state. In 1885 he was elected governor, and 21 Jan., 1891, U. S. senator.

HILL, David Jayne, educator, b. in Plainfield, N. J„ 10 June, 1850. He was graduated at the University of Lewisburg, Pa., in 1874, was pro- fessor of rhetoric there in 1877-'9, and in the latter year was chosen president of the institution. Madison university gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1884. He has published " Science of Rhetoric " (New York, 1877) : " Elements of Rhetoric and Composition " (1879) ; " Life of Washington Ir- ving " (1879) ; " Life of William Cullen Bryant " (1880) ; and " Principles and Fallacies of Social- ism " (1885). He has also edited Jevons's " Ele- ments of Logic" (1884), and has in preparation (1887) " The Relation of Christianity to the Social Problems of our Time."

HILL, Frances Mulligan, missionary, b. in New York city about 1807; d. in Athens, Greece, 5 Aug., 1884. She was the daughter of John W. Mulligan, and married Dr. John H. Hill, with whom she went to Athens in 1831 to superintend schools for the Greeks. She established a mission- school for girls, in which she also educated teach- ers from 1834 till 1842. The school was superin- tended by a society of ladies under the direction of Mrs. Emma Willard, of Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Hill re- ceived in it pupils from families connected with the government at Athens, and also from the wealthy Greeks in Smyrna, Constantinople, and the Ionian islands. Many of the pupils that were appointed by the government to be educated in this normal school afterward opened schools in their respective districts as government teachers. She also founded another school, which is now in existence. The house in which Mrs. Hill resided was built for her by Mr. Bracebridge of England, and after her death it was purchased for the Hill memorial school. HILL, George, poet, b. in Guilford, Conn., in 1796; d. in New York, 15 Dec, 1871. He was graduated at Yale in 1816, and, after being em- ployed in a public office in Washington, D. C, en- tered the U. S. navy in 1827 as a teacher of mathe- matics, in which capacity he made a cruise in the Mediterranean. In 1831 he resigned and became librarian in the state department in Washington, which office he held until 1839, when he was ap- Sointed U. S. consul for the southern part of Asia linor. He resigned this post, owing to his health, and again accepted an office in the state depart- ment, but in 1855 returned to Guilford, Conn. He was the author of "Ruins of Athens and Other Poems," published anonymously (1834; 2d ed., with additions, Boston, 1839; 3d ed., entitled " Titania's Banquet, Pictures of Women, and Other Poems," New York, 1870). His latest poem was written for the dedication of the monument to his friend, Fitz-Greene Halleck, at Guilford, and his last composition was a scholarly essay on Sappho.

HILL, George W., Canadian clergyman, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 9 Nov., 1824. He was or- dained priest in the Episcopal church in 1848, and became professor of pastoral theology in King's college, Nova Scotia, in 1854. He was rector of St. Paul's church, Halifax, from 1865 till 1885, chaplain to the legislative council during the same period, and chancellor of the University of Halifax in 1876-85. He is the author of " Memoir of Sir B. Haliburton " (1864), and other works.

HILL, George William, astronomer, b. in New York city, 3 March, 1838. He was graduated at Rutgers college in 1859, and has since received the degree of Ph. D. from that institution. In 1861 he became assistant in the office of the " American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac," which office he continues to fill. He made a canoe voyage in 1880 from Lake Superior to Moose Factory, Hud- son bay, for the purpose of making a map of the route and photographs of the scenery. His re- searches on the lunar theory have attracted atten- tion, and in 1887 he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal astronomical society of London for his investigations. He is a member of scientific societies, and in 1874 received an election to the National academy of sciences. Dr. Hill is the au- thor of upward of forty articles and memoirs, in mathematical and astronomical journals or in transactions of scientific societies, having reference chiefly to mathematical astronomy.

HILL, Isaac, senator, b. in Charlestown (now Somerville), Mass., 6 April, 1788 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 22 March, 1851. He was seventh in descent from Abraham Hill, who came from England in 1636. His parents removed to Ashburnham, Mass., and at the age of fourteen he was placed in the printing-office of the Amherst, N. H., " Cabinet." In 1809 he went to Concord, N. H., purchased the "American Patriot," whose name he changed to " New Hampshire Patriot," and made it an organ of the Republican (afterward Democratic) party. The ablest men of the party contributed to its columns, and it had great influence for twenty years. He labored in behalf of the manufactures of New England, and later favored the building of railroads, taking issue with one branch of his party on questions arising from their extension. After serving in both branches of the New Hampshire legislature he was an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. senate in 1828, and was second comptroller of the treasury, from 1829 till 1830, when he was elected U. S. senator. He re-