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���JOHN M. HILL.

By Henry H. Metcalf.

��The name of Hill has been a familiar and honored name in the State of New Hampshire for more than half a cen- tury. Isaac Hill, printer, editor, poli- tician and statesman, made the New Hampshire Patriot a jjower in the State and beyond its borders ; and, more than any other man of his time, exercised a controlling influence u]jon New Hamp- shire politics and ])opular sentiment, legislation, and social and material progress. He won the confidence and commanded the respect of his fellow- citizens, and was accorded the highest

��positions of honor and trust within their gift, serving the state with fidelity and distinction in the United States Senate from 1831 to 1836, and in the gubernatorial chair from 1836 to 1839.

JOHN McCLARY HILL,

second son of Honorable Isaac and Susan (Ayer) Hill, was born in Con- cord, November 5, 1821. During his early life he attended the public schools of his native town and the Academy at South Berwick, Maine, and in 1840 en- gaged in business with his father and eldest brother, William P., in the pub-

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