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Tyler County Biographies
"H" Surnames
E. A. HILL, M.
D., a prominent physician and surgeon of Salem, Harrison
County, West Virginia, was born September 5, 1866, near the
headwaters of McKim Creek, Tyler County, West Virginia, and is a son
of Ira and Melvina Jane (Joseph) Hill, both of whom were natives of
Tyler County.
Dr. Hill comes of
old established families of Tyler County, of Welsh-Irish stock,
pioneers of Eastern Virginia. The Hills are very numerous in Tyler
County, although all have not descended from the same common
ancestry.
Thomas Hill, the
great-grandfather of Dr. Hill, was reared in the vicinity of
Mannington, Marion County, and was the founder of the family in
Tyler County, near McKim Creek. There Ira Hill, the father of Dr.
Hill, was born, being a son of Horace and Margaret (Davis) Hill, who
were also natives of the same section. Ira Hill still resides near
McKim Creek, aged about 55 years. Mr. Hill first married Melvina
Jane Joseph, who was a daughter of Nathan and Ann (Hustead) Joseph,
residents of Joseph's Mills, Tyler County, where Nathan Joseph's
father founded the family early in the last century, coming from
Virginia, Mr. Joseph still resides in the old homestead at Joseph's
Mills at the age of 86 years. The mother of Dr. Hill died when he
was about two years old and he is the only survivor of her three
children. The second marriage of Ira Hill to Salina Gregg resulted
in two sons, of whom the survivor, Leonidas, resides
at home.
Dr. E. A. Hill was reared a farm boy in Tyler County, and
passed his youth alternating between attendance at the local schools
and work on the farm. At the age of 20 years he began to teach
school, and followed this profession four years, spending part of
the time in attending school himself. His medical education was
commenced under Dr. I. S. Jones, of Mole Hill, Ritchie County, West
Virginia. He then spent one year in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, subsequently entering Starling
Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in medicine in
1892. In 1898 Dr. Hill took a post-graduate course in the New
York Polyclinic Medical College and Hospital. After his graduation
in 1892, he entered into practice at Shirley, Tyler County, where he
continued for six years. After his return from his post-graduate
course in New York, he engaged in practice for one year at Pine
Forks, an oil district, and one year at West Union, in Doddridge
County. Dr. Hill then removed to Harrison County, locating at Salem,
since which time he has been successfully engaged in practice all
through his section of the county, particularly at
Salem and Wolf Sunmiit.
In 1888, Dr. Hill married Angeline Harper, a
daughter of George and Elizabeth (Markle) Harper, natives of Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Harper resided near Pennsboro, Ritchie County,
West Virginia, from 1806; the former died in 1902, and the latter in
1903. Mrs. Hill was born in the home in Ritchie County, in 1866. Two
children have been born to this union. Albert Bleile, whose
birth occurred July 26, 1893; and a son born March 20, 1895.
who died in infancy.
Dr. Hill has given faithful and efficient service during
his residence in Harrison County, and is highly esteemed both by the
profession and the public.
Source: Men of West Virginia Vol. III, by Biographical
Publishing Company, 1903, Transcribed by C.
Anthony
Thomas P. Hill
Hill, Thomas P..
(Republican), Address: Middlebourne West Virginia. A
hold-over Senator from the Second District. Born in Tyler county
August 24. 1873: reared on a farm; early education received in the
common schools; later attended the Glenville State Normal School and
the State University taking the law courtse at the latter
institution; commenced teaching when but seventeen years old: at
twenty-one waa elected County Superintendent of Tyler
county: has been closely identified with educational affairs
ever since; is now an attorney in active practice; has been City
Attorney, Mayor and Councilman of Middlebourne; waa a member of the
House during the seasons of 1903-4; member of the Senate 1905-09;
while serving as Senator secured high school for Tyler county;
elected again to the Senate in 1920; committee service. 1921;
Penitentiary (Chairman), Judiciary, Education, Railroads, Forfeited
and Unappropriated Lands, Public Printing, Prohibition and
Temperance.
Source:
West Virginia Official Register, Compiled and Edited by John
T. Harris, Clerk of The Senate 1922, Transcribed by C. Anthony
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