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LEFT HILL 15 HILL vice-president, and president of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering. The latter office he re- signed in 1916 in order to write a his- tory of North Carolina in the Civil War. He was a member of many historical societies. He contributed many articles on historical and literary subjects to magazines and also wrote "History of North Carolina Troops in the Civil War" (1899); "Gen. Greene's Retreat" (1901); "Hill Readers" (1907); "Young People's History of North Carolina" (1907). HILL, DAVID BENNETT, an Ameri- can lawyer; born in Havana, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1843. He studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1864; elected to the State Assembly in 1870-1871; in 1882 was chosen lieutenant-governor of his State, succeeding Mr. Cleveland as governor when the latter assumed the presidency. In 1885 he was renominated for the governorship by the Democracy and elected. In 1888 he was again nom- inated and re-elected. In 1891 he was DAVID BENNETT HILL chosen United States senator. He was a prominent candidate for the presiden- tial nomination in the Democratic Con- vention of 1892. He died Oct. 20, 1910. HILL, DAVID JAYNE, an American diplomat and historian, born in Plain- field, N. J., in 1850. He was educated at Bucknell University, from which he grad- uated in 1874, served as professor of rhetoric in this institution from 1877 to 1879. and was for the eight years fol- lowing its president. From 1888 to 1896 he was president of the University of Rochester. After several years spent in Europe in the study of international law and diplomacy he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State in 1898, serving to 1903. He was appointed United States Minister to Switzerland DAVID JAYNE HILL in the latter year. Two years later he was agpointed Minister to Holland. From 1908 to 1911 he was Ambassador to Germany. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1914. He served for a time as pro« fessor of European diplomacy in the f School of Comparative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy at Washington and was a member of the Permanent Administra- tive Council of The Hague Tribunal. During the progress of the World War, and especially after the participation of the United States, he wrote much in criticism of the attitude of the Democrat- ic administration toward the war. In July, 1920 he was chairman of the Re- publican State Convention in New York. He wrote much on historical and liter- ary subjects. Among his writings are: "Life of Washington Irving" (1879); "The Contemporary Development of Diplomacy" (1904); "World Organiza- tion as Affected by the Nature of the Modern State" (1911); "A History of Diplomacy in the International Develop-