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NELSON H. HILL, is a son of Horatio and Sophia (Weatherby) Hill, and was born September 19, 1834, at Cherry Creek, Chautauqua county, New York. His paternal grandfather was a native of Connecticut, but emigrated to Vermont where he died. He was a farmer and served as a soldier in the Revolution under Gen. Israel Putnam. Nelson H. Hill’s maternal grandfather (Weatherby) was a native of Massachusetts, but removed to Otsego county, New York, where Mr. Hill’s mother was born. Afterward her father removed to Chautauqua county and lived with his children until summoned to another world. He was a farmer and in politics a whig. Horatio Hill (father) was born in Vermont about 1798 and died in July, 1890, in Lowell, Michigan, where he was living with a son. He was a farmer and a whig and republican in politics. He has held the offices of justice of the peace and highway commissioner. His children were: Orton and Oron, living in Lowell, Michigan, the former being a commercial traveller and the latter a farmer; Lucinda (married), Josephine, Orseba, Mary and Nelson H.

Nelson H. Hill was educated in Ellington and Randolph academies, the former located in Chautauqua and the latter in Cattaraugus county, He began the study of law in the office of Charles B. Green, in Ellington, having been previously engaged in the avocation of school teaching. He concluded his legal studies in the office of Thomas Grosvenor, in Dunkirk and was admitted to the bar in 1861; opening an office in the city of Dunkirk, where he remained until 1867 when he removed to Jamestown. Politically he is a republican and religiously a member of the Presbyterian church. He held the office of special county judge of Chautauqua county during 1865, 1866, 1867, and was also Register of Bankruptcy, at that time an important office. It was abolished by law in 1878. He is a Mason, being a Royal Arch and a member of Irondequoit Lodge, of Dunkirk.

He married Anna M. Wilkinson, a daughter of Elisha Wilkinson, who bore him two children: Mary B., who, while a student at Cornell university, met with a fatal accident, being precipitated into a deep gorge while returning from Ithaca to the university, June 12, 1887. She was a special favorite with all who knew her, being a very brilliant and accomplished young lady; and Myron H.