C. H. Hill

HILL, BROWN

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 21:16:59

C. H. Hill settled in Monroe township in 1868. He was married that year, to Miss S. J. Brown, of Wisconsin. They have had six children, two of them are living – Frank H., and Mary J. They lost two children from that dread disease diphtheria – Minnie, who was born February 8, 1872, died November 27, 1881, and Edwin, who was born March 1, 1874, died two days later; two other children died in infancy.
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Mr. Hill was born in Washington county, Vermont, June 15, 1837. At twenty years of age he started out to see the world. He first went to Wisconsin, and worked at farming in Columbia county two years. In 1861 he went to the Rocky Mountains, where he engaged in freighting two years. He then started traveling with fast horses, visiting the horse fairs in different States, until he settled in Monroe township, and bought his present farm on section 17. In 1868 he built his fine residence. He still retains his love for good horses, and now has two fine stock horses.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 644