BIOGRAPHY: Stewart A. HILL, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 212
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STEWART A. HILL, a son of John W. and Martha (Stuart) Hill, was born near 
Leechburg, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1853. His immediate 
ancestors on both sides were of Western Pennsylvania stock. His father was born 
near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and died at Armagh, Indiana county, 
September 21, 1890, aged sixty-eight years.
     From boyhood the latter was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, where his talent as a public speaker found frequent exercise as a local 
exhorter. By occupation he was a farmer. From 1868 to the date of his death he 
was a resident of Indiana county. His grandfather, Aaron Hill was a native of 
Pennsylvania; but little of his history has been preserved in the family 
records, beyond the facts that he was engaged in agricultural pursuits in 
Westmoreland county. He was born in 1782, in the state of Maryland, and died 
July 1, 1842, near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, aged sixty years.
     He was of Scotch extraction. Martha Stuart was born at Ligonier, 
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. She was a woman of rare virtue, and was a 
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in whose communion she died 
April 24, 1894, at the age of sixty-six years.
     Grandfather Barrakiah Stuart was born in Westmoreland county, of Scotch 
ancestry. 
  He was a farmer by occupation, and lived and died in the county of his birth, 
his death occurring in 1849, near West Fairfield, Westmoreland county, 
Pennsylvania; death resulting from accident by falling from a building.
     Our subject, Stewart A. Hill, was himself reared in Armstrong and Indiana 
counties. His educational facilities were such as are ordinarily provided by the 
common schools, supplemented by a single term at the Indiana Normal school, and 
a short term at a business college. Subsequently he followed the profession of 
teaching for eight years in Indiana and Cambria counties, including two years in 
the public schools of Johnstown. He was a successful instructor; but preferring 
a business career to the routine of the schoolroom, he, on May 24, 1880, 
accepted a position as clerk and salesman for the Penn Traffic company of the 
same city, with which he has been continuously identified since 1884 as foreman 
and buyer of the shoe department.
     June 15, 1880, Mr. Hill was married to Miss Laura J., daughter of Elias 
Paul, of Johnstown. Four children, one son and three daughters, have been born 
to this union, viz.: Bessie O., Edith V., W. Forester, and Martha M.
     Mr. Hill is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Also of the 
following societies: A.O.K. of M.C., Knights of Pythias, and Royal Arcanum, the 
latter being identified especially as an insurance feature.