Hill, Charles Edgar

HILL, STANLEY, GIBBS

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Date: 8/31/2009 at 08:09:38

Hill, Charles Edgar

The representative farmer and enterprising citizen of whom the biographer now writes in this connection belongs to one of the old and well-known families of Jasper County, and it is a compliment honorably earned to ascribe to him a prominent place among the most up-to-date farmers of the community where he has spent his life and is now successfully engaged in his chosen vocation, for he saw from the outset, it seems, the necessity of performing every task that presented itself quickly and as nearly accurate in every detail as possible and thus he has been guided in all his undertakings

Charles Edgar Hill was born four miles southwest of Kellogg, February 20, 1877, and he is the son of Joshua B. and Elizabeth (Stanley) Hill, who were born in Indiana. There they grew to maturity, were educated and married, later coming to Iowa, and here became well fixed, owning a good farm. Charles E. Hill grew up on the home farm in this County and there he worked during the crop seasons. He received a good education at Pleasant View School, in this County, after which he turned his attention to farming, which he has continued to the present time, having located on the farm, which he now owns, in 1902. He has a well-located and productive farm of one hundred and ten acres in sections 23 and 24. He keeps a good grasp of livestock and has excellent buildings on his place.

Mr. Hill was married December 25, 1892, to Buella Gibbs, whose birth occurred in Kellogg, Iowa, December 13, 1878.

Politically, Mr. Hill is a Republican and, fraternally, he belongs to the Modern Woodmen, and Mrs. Hill is a member of the Christian Church. They are highly respected by all who know them. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1067.