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HILL, J. E., clerk of the court of Page county, P. O. Clarinda; born February 26, 1845, in Highland county, Ohio. At the age of sixteen he came to Iowa and located in Valley township, this county. He enlisted June 15, 1861, in company F, First Nebraska Infantry, being the first company raised in the county. He served to January, 1864, when he reenlisted and served to the close of the war. In 1863 the regiment was mounted and changed to the First Nebraska Cavalry. He was promoted from the ranks to first sergeant of his company, and was mustered out as such July 1, 1866, and returned to Page county and went to farming, which he followed until the spring of 1870. He then moved to Clarinda, and in 1871 was appointed deputy sheriff, in which capacity he served for three years. In the fall of 1874 he was elected county clerk, and assumed the duties of that office January 1, 1875, and has held the office ever since, and is now the nominee of the republican party this fall and will no doubt be again elected by a large majority. He is a man who has given unqualified satisfaction to the people of the county in conducting the office and in whom the people have unbounded confidence, and is in every way qualified to fill the office the people have so often elected him to. He was married July 4, 1867, to Miss R. A. Wright, a native of Adams county, Ohio. They have a family of four children: Walter, Elmer, George and Helen; have buried one child.