REV. EDWIN S. HILL
The church has had but one pastor. Rev. Edwin S. Hill, who began his labor with the church at its organization. He was born in Wakeman, Huron county, Ohio, December 2, 1837, where he resided until April 1856 when he removed to Tabor, Fremont county, Iowa. The winter before leaving Ohio, he taught school in the district in which he had attended as a pupil. He again taught in Mills county, Iowa, in the winter of 1856-7. In the fall of 1857, he was present as a student at the opening of Tabor college. The following summer was spent in a three months' trip across the plains, resuming study again at the opening of the school year in 1858. The winter of 1860-61 was spent as teacher of the public school in Exira, Audubon county, Iowa. Resuming study again at Tabor College, he continued until July 22, 1861. At this time he enlisted in company A, Fourth Iowa Infantry, in which he served as private, sergeant, orderly sergeant and first lieutenant, until August of 1865. At the close of the war he resumed teaching, spending five months in this occupation at Percival, Iowa. On the 5th of October, 1865, he was married in Tabor, to Miss Mattie E. Treat who died October 16, 1868. In July, 1866, he assumed the pastorate of the Congregational church at Grove City, and Exira. He remained at Grove City until April, 1869, when upon the organization of the church in Atlantic, he became its pastor. He has been a trustee of Tabor college since 1866, and has received the degree of Master of Arts from that institution. He was married the second time January 19, 1870, to Miss Helen M. Jones. One son, Sidney T. Hill, now a student in Tabor college, is the only child.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 411-412.
