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1886-87 ; served one term on the Republican state central committee ; and was a representative in the 54th, S.lth, HGth, 57th. 58th congresses, 1895- 1905. He became a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, May 17, 1893. He received from Yale university the honorary degree of M.A. in 1892.

HILL, Frank Pierce, librarian, was born in Concord, N.H., Aug. 23, 1855; sou of Cyrus and Nancy (Walker) Hill, and grandson of Levi and Lydia (Wiggin) Hill. He was prepared for col- lege in the schools of Concord, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1876, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1880. He was librarian at Lowell, Mass., 1881-85 ; at Paterson, N.J., 1885-86, and 1888; at Salem, Mass., 1888-89, and in 1889 was made librarian at the Free Public Library, Newark, N.J. He was married, May 17, 1880, to Annie Maria, daughter of Dr. Robert Wood, of Lowell, Mass. He was secretary of the Amer- ican Library association, 1891-95. He wrote Lowell, Mass., Illustrated (1882) and numerous articles on library economy for periodicals.

HILL, Frederic Stanhope, naval officer, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1839 ; son of Fred- eric Stanhope and Mary Welland(Blake)Hill. His early training was received in Brattleboro, Vt., and at the Friends' academy in New Bedford, Mass. In 1843 he declined a midshipman's warrant in the navy, but went to sea in the merchant service, passing through the various grades, until in 1850 he obtained the command of a ship. In 1851 he re- turned to Bos- ton and retired from the sea, having been ap- pointed a clerk in the custom house, x-emain- ing until 1861, doing much literary work meanwhile on the Boston Post and the New Yorker, a literary journal published in New York. He volunteered in the navy in June, 1861, was appointed acting master and ordered to the U.S.S. Richmond, where he re- mained for two years. He was promoted at Admiral Farragut's request in June, 1863, to the rank of lieutenant, and given command of the U.S.S. Tennessee on the coast of Texas, and was transferred to the W. G. Anderson, subsequently commanding the ironclads Benton and Tyler. In 1865 he I'etiredfrom the navy, entered journalism, and founded the Chester, Pa., Daily Keivs, and later the Middletown, N.Y., Daily Press. After passing five years in Europe, he purchased the Cambridge, Mass., Chronicle, and later the Cam- bridge Tribune. He became treasurer of Christ church, Cambridge, and a member of the Military

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Order of the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Naval Order of the United States and the United States Histoi"ical association, and in 1894 was elected secretary of the Massachusetts Nautical Training school. He married in Phila- delphia, in 1861, Caroline Tyson, and their only child, Gertrude Blake Hill, married Dr. Laurence Montgomery Stanton, of New York city. Mr. Hill is tlie author of : Twenty Years at Sea ; The Continuity of the Anglican Church, and numer- ous historical monographs and other papers.

HILL, George, poet, was born in Guilford, Conn., in 1796. He was graduated fiom Yale in 1816, and was a clerk in the employ of the gov- ernment until 1837, when he became teacher of mathematics in the U.S. navy. After a cruise in the Mediterranean, he resigned his commis- sion, and was librarian in the state department at Washington, 1831-39. He was ajipointedU.S. consul in Asia Minor in 1839, resigning the office after a short time on account of illness, and again entering the department service. In 1855 he returned to his native place and engaged in literary work until his death. He published Ruins of Athens and Other Poems (1834) ; Titania''s Banquet, Pictures of Women, and Other Poems, and several fugitive poems. He died in New York city, N.Y.. Dec. 15, 1871.

HILL, George, clergyman, was born in Old Fairfield, Ligonier valley, Pa., Sept. 18, 1815; son of John and Jane (IMoorhead) Hill, grandson of the Rev. George and Elizabeth (McClelland) Hill, and of Samuel and Agnes (Craig) Moor- head. His grandfather, the Rev. George Hill, a Presbyterian minister over churches at Wheat- field, Fairfield and Donegal, in Ligonier valley, Pa., died in 1823, and his great-grandfather Hill removed from York, Pa., to Morgantown, Va. He was graduated from Jefferson college. Pa., in 1837, and from the Western Theological seminary in 1840. He preached at Blairsville and Salem, Pa., 1840-41 ; was ordained and installed by the Presbytery of Blairsville, Dec. 14, 1841, as co- pastor with the Rev. Thomas Davis, pastor at Salem, Pa., 1841-48, and was pastor at Blairs- ville, 1841-95. He founded the Blairsville Female seminary, 1851, which became Blairsville College for Women. He was elected a director of the Western Theological seminary, 1847, was first vice-president of the board, 1870-83, and was elected president in 1883 to succeed Dr. C. C. Beatty, deceased. He was moderator of the synod of Pittsburg in 1861 ; a director of the Western Theological seminary, 1847-95 ; vice- president of the board, 1873, and president of the board in 1883. He was married, Sept. 21, 1841, to Harriet, daughter of the Rev. David Lewis, pastor of Ebenezer Presbyterian church ; and secondly, on March 23, 1854, to Abigail,