HILL, Rowland

HILL, FARRELL, MCMILLEN, JACKSON, IRWIN, WAUGH, SMITH

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Date: 1/19/2003 at 20:35:50

ROWLAND HILL.  
Although young in years this gentleman is one of the most energetic and enterprising agriculturists of Brookfield township where he owns and operates a fine farm of two hundred acres, and is also successfully engaged in the breeding of horses. He was born in the township where he still resides, November 12, 1879, and is a son of John and Ruth (Farrell) Hill, natives of Canada and England, respectively. The father came with his parents to America and first settled in Illinois, and later settled in Brookfield township, this county, where he continued to make his home throughout the remainder of his life, his time and attention being devoted to agricultural pursuits. He died in February, 1895, and his widow now resides in Mount Vernon, Iowa. This worthy couple had a family of six children: Ulysses, who married Lottie McMillen and resides in Sac county, Iowa; Theodore, who married Cora Jackson, and lives in Liberty township, Clinton county; Rowland, our subject; Martha, wife of James Irwin, of Sac county; Earl, who was graduated in pharmacy and is now at home with his mother in Mount Vernon; and Pearl, also at home. The children were educated in the common schools of this county and the schools of Mount Vernon.

Rowland Hill passed his boyhood and youth under the parental roof, and was married in January, 1895, to Miss Allie Waugh, of Brookfield township, a daughter of Edward F. and Lydia (Smith) Waugh, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. By this union have been born two children, namely: Hazel, born in August, 1897; and John Arthur, born in November, 1899.

After his father’s death Mr. Hill took charge of the old homestead, and is now the owner of about two hundred acres, on which he successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising. He is a hard working, industrious young man, and the prosperity that has come to him is due entirely to his own unaided efforts. Fraternally he affiliates with the Brotherhood of the World at Lost Nation, and politically is identified with the Republican party, but has never cared for the honors or emoluments of public office, preferring to give his undivided attention to his business interests. He is widely known and very popular with his many friends and acquaintances.
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.