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telegraphy and the coinage of both gold and sil- ver, lu 1891 he was nominated by President Harrison, one of the three members of the In- ternational Monetary commission. He became president of the United Oil company, of the Col- orado Smelting and Mining company, and of the Denargo Land com^jany, and proprietor of the Republican, Denver, Col. In mining he intro- duced new methods of treating the refractory ores of Colorado successfully and economically. He was married July 26, 1800, to Alice Hale. He was a member of the American Chemical society. Brown conferred upon him by special vote the degree of A.M. in 1894 to date from 1859. He is the author of: Speeches and Papers on the Silver and Other Economic Questions (1890). He died in Denver, Col., Aug. 22, 1900.

HILL, Robert Andrews, jiirist, was born in Iredell county, N.C., March 2,1, 1811; son of David and Rhoda (Andrews) Hill; grandson of Robert and Mary (Logan) Hill and of James and Mary (Haynes) Andrews, and great-grandson of James Hill, who came from Belfast, Ireland, and settled in Chester county. Pa., in 1740. Robert Hill settled in Iredell county, N.C., in 1765, and David Hill in Williamson county, Tenn., in 1815. Here Robert A. Hill was educated at the com- mon school and worked on his father's farm and became a farmer. He became interested in pol- itics, and was successively constable and justice of the peace. He was admitted to the bar in 1844, and practised in Waynesboro, Tenn. He was attorney-general of his district, 1847 and 1853; removed to Jacinto, Miss. , in 18.j5, and was pro- bate judge of Tishomingo county, 1858-65; dis- trict chancellor, 1805-06, and U.S. district judge, 1866-91, when he was placed on the retired list of U.S. district judges. He was a member of the American Bar association. He was married, Oct. 23, 1833, to Mary Andrews, who died Dec, 12, 1898. Their only child. Marietta C, was married to George R. Hill, clerk of the U.S. circuit court of the northern district of Mississippi, in 1875. Judge Hill died in Oxford, Miss., July 2, 1900.

HILL, Theophilus Hunter, author, was born near Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 31, 1830; son of Dr. William Geddy and Adelaide Virginia (Hun- ter) Hill; grandson of William and Sarah (Geddy) Hill and of Theophilus and Martha (Green) Hunter; and great-grandson of Capt. Theophilus Hunter, of the Revolution, and of the Rev. Mr. Hill, a chaplain in Washington's army. He was a descendant of one of four brothers who emi- grated from Wales and settled in Carolina county, Va., early in the 18th century. He was educated at James M. Love joy's academy, Raleigh, N.C.; studied law, and was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1858, but did not enter the practice. He edited The Spirit of the Age at

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Raleigh, N.C, 1863, and The Centenary, a lit- erary journal, at Florence, S.C, 1889. He was state librarian for North Carolina, 1871-72, and is the author of Hesper and Other Poems (1861); Poems (1809), and Passion Flower and Other Poems (1883).

HILL, Thomas, educator, was born in New Brunswick, N.J., Jan. 7, 1818; son of Thomas and Henrietta (Barker) Hill, and grandson of Samuel and Anne (Roby) Hill. His parents died when lie was very young, and in 1830- 33 he served an ap- prenticeship to a prin- ter. He later studied for a year in Lower Dublin academy, near Philadelphia, Pa., and then served an ap- prenticeship with an apothecary. He was graduated from Har- vard A.B., 1843; S.T. B., 1845, and A.M., 1846. He was mar- ried in 1845 to Anne Foster, daughter of Josiah and Mary (Sparhawk) Bellows, of Wal- pole, N.H. He was pastor of the Unitarian church at Waltham, Mass., 1845-59; was presi- dent of Antioch college, Ohio, 1859-62; and president of Harvard college from Oct. 6, 1862, to Sept. 30, 1868. He resigned the position on accovmt of illness, and was succeeded by Charles W. Eliot. He accompanied Louis Agassiz on his surveying expedition to the coast of South America in 1871. After his return (1873) he be- came minister of the First Unitarian church at Portland, Maine. He was the inventor of sev- eral mathematical contrivances, one of the more remarkable being the occultator, by which eclipses and occultations could be calculated, for which he received the Scott medal of the Franklin in- stitute in 1843. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1871-73; a fellow of the American Academj' of Arts and Sciences; a member of the American Philosophical society, and a member of the Mas- sachusetts Historical society. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Harvard in 1860 and that of LL.D. from Yale in 1863. He is the author of Christmas, and Poems on Slavery (1843); Arith- metic (1845); Geometry and Faith (1849); Curva- ture (1850); First Lessons in Geometry (1855); Liberal Education (1855); Jesus the Literpreter of Nature (1859); The Natural Sources of Theol- ogy (1875); Tim True Order of Studies (1870); Practical Arithmetic (1881); In the Woods and Elseiohere (1888); and numerous other works. He died at Waltham, Mass., Nov. 21, 1891.