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T. F. HILL, grocer, Aberdeen, was born in South Bloomfield, Pickaway Co., Ohio, May 5, 1837, and is a son of Martin and Lucinda (Osburn) Hill. His father was born in Connecticut, and his mother in Virginia. He spent several years in this county, temporarily, teaching. Both are living, and at the present time reside in Charleston, W. Va. The boyhood of our subject was spent in his birthplace, and in the village schools he received the rudiments of his education, which was developed by a term of study at the Lebanon, Ohio, Normal School, previous to which he had been engaged in teaching — a profession he had followed successfully for twelve or fifteen years. He enlisted, June 19, 1861, in Company H, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was soon after sent to West Virginia, and saw active service throughout the war. He was on detached duty at headquarters for ten months, and afterward on detached duty in the Quartermaster’s Department. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of his old company in 1862, and afterward promoted to First Lieutenant, and was assigned to duty in Company E, and afterward in Company H. He passed through a number of engagements, but received no wounds. He was discharged July 11, 1864. Upon his return to civil life, he located in Greenville, Ill., where he was engaged in merchandising six months. His health failing, he returned to Aberdeen and followed teaching in the village school, as Principal, for three years. In 1874, he engaged in his present business, and has since devoted his entire attention to it. He was married, October 10, 1864, to Caroline, the daughter of John B. Campbell, an old settler, whose biography appears in this work. To them have been born six children, namely, John M., Charles W., Thomas L., Edith, Carrie C. and an infant, deceased. Mr. Hill is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge of Aberdeen, No. 142, and to the Grand Army of the Republic — George B. Bailey, Post No. 215, of Aberdeen. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the village, to which they have belonged for a number of years. Mrs. Hill was born in Aberdeen, in March, 1838.