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The Great Battle of the West, in Battles and .Leaders uf the ficil War (l804-«8). He died at Charlotte, N.C., Sept. LV>, 1889.

HILL, David Bennett, governor of New York, was born in Havana. X.Y., Aug. 29, 1843; son of Caleb and Eunice (Durfey) UiU. His father ■was a native of Connecticut. He attended the district scliool and the Havana academy, studied law in the office of Erastus P. Hart, of Elinira, N. Y., and was aihnitted to the bar in 1864, practising in EIniira. He was a delegate to the Democratic state con- ventions of 1868-80, inclusive. He was a member of the state assembly of 1871 and 1872, where he was associated with Sam- uel J. Tilden as mi- nority member of the judiciary committee. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1870; cliairman of the Democratic state conventions of 1877 and 1881; city attorney of Elmira, 1865; alderman of Elmira, 1880 and 1881; and mayor of Elmira, 1883. He was lieu- tenant-governor of New York, 1883-1884; gov- ernor, ex-officio, 1885; and was elected governor of New York in 1885 and re-elected in 1888, serving, 1884-91. He was U.S. senator, 1891-97, and at the Democratic national convention of 1893 he received the vote of the New York delegates for the nomination for President of the United States. In the U.S. senate he was chairman of the committee on immigration and a member of the committees on fisheries, ju- diciary, territories and post offices and post roads. He was president of the New York State Bar association, 1886-87. In 1894 he was defeated in the election for governor of New Y'ork by Levi P. Morton. On retiring from the U.S. senate, March 4, 1897, he resumed the practice of law at Albany, N. Y. In the Democratic national convention at Kansas City, Mo., July 5, 1900, he seconded the nomination of Mr. Bryan for Presi- dent and the next day was assured of the unani- mous vote of the convention for the second place on the ticket, but he positively refused to allow his name to be used.

HILL, David Jayne, educator and publicist, was born in Plainfield, N.J., June 10, 1850; son of the Rev. Daniel T. and Lydia Ann (Thompson) Hill, grandson of Isaac Hill and a descendant of Abraham Hill. He was graduated from the University of Lewisburg, Pa. (afterward Buck-

nell), in 1874. He was instructor in ancient languages at Bucknell until 1877; was Crozer professor of rhetoric there, 1877-9; jjresident of the university, 1879-88, and president of the University of Rochester, and Burbank professor of intellectual and moral philosophy, 1888-96. He studied at Berlin and Paris, giving special atten- tion to philosophy and public law, 1896- 98. On Oct. 1, 1898, President McKinley appointed him first assistant secretary of state to succeed John B.Moore, and while in the state depart- ment he also sei\ed as professor of Euro- pean diplomacy in

the school of comparative jurisprudence and diplomacy at 'Washington. He was married, June 8, 1886, to Juliet Lewis Packer. He was elected a fellow of the Association for the Advance- ment of Science in 1895 and a member of the Acadeni}- of Political and Social Science. Madison university conferred upon liim the degree of LL.D. in 1883. He is the autlior of: The Science of Rhet- oric (.1877); Elements of Rhetoric and Composition (1879); Life of Washington Irving (IS"!^): Life of William Cnllen Bri/ant (1880); Principles and Fallacies of Socialism (1SS5); The Elements of Psychology (1887); The Social Lrflnence of Chris- tianity (1887); Genetic Philosophy (1893). and magazine articles. In 1903 he was ap[)ointed U.S. minister to Switzerland.

HILL, Ebenezer J, representative, was born in Redding, Conn., Aug. 4, 1845; son of the Rev. Moses and Charlotte (McLellan) Hill; grandson of Ebenezer and Sarah (Barlow) Hill, of Red- ding, Conn., and of Stephen and Hannah (Ilsley) McLellan, of Portland, Maine, and a descendant of William and Sarah ( Jourdain) Hill, of Lyme Regis, England, who came to Dorchester, Mass., in 1632, and afterward lived in Windsor and Fairfield, Conn. William Hill was deputy and assistant from both Windsor and Fairfield, and held other public offices. Ebenezer was prepared for college in tiie Norwalk public school and entered Yale with the class of 1865, remaining there two years. He then engaged in business, and became presi- dent of the Norwalk Gas Ligiit company, the Norwalk Street Railway company and vice-presi- dentof the National Bank of Norwalk. He served twice as burgess of Norwalk, and was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1884. He was a member of the Connecticut senate.