[p. 1014] one of Shenango Township's substantial citizens, carrying on general farming and dairying on his valuable farm of seventy acres, was born near Sharpsville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1837. He is a son of Nathaniel and Huldah (Baldwin) Hill, and a grandson of Isaac Hill, a native of Beaver County, who lived there during the youth of his children and then moved to Mercer County, and from there to Illinois, where he subsequently died.
Nathaniel Hill was born in Beaver County and resided there up to early manhood. About the time of his marriage he moved to Mercer County, where he remained until the fall of 1859, when he bought a farm in the southern part of Shenango Township, Lawrence County, on which he lived thereafter for many years. Prior to his death he settled near Hadley, in Mercer County. His business was farming and stock-raising. Early in mature life he voted with the Whig party, but later was a Republican. He married a daughter of Samuel Baldwin, of Shenango Township, and they had seven children born to them, namely: Socrates M., residing at Hadley, Mercer County; Samuel B., of Shenango Township; Isaac Newell, residing in Mercer County; Mary Jane, residing near Hadley; Sarah Elizabeth, who married Eli Houk, residing in Shenango Township; Harvey N., residing in Mercer County; and Huldah Ann, who married Abraham Pearson, residing at Elizabeth, Worth County, West Virginia. The parents were members of the Baptist Church.
Samuel B. Hill was twenty-two years old when his parents moved to Lawrence County, and he had obtained a common school education in Mercer County. Six years later he went back to Mercer County, going from there three years afterwards to Crawford County, where he remained for several years, following farming all the time. In the spring of 1879 he bought his present farm, of which he has sixty acres under cultivation, growing corn, oats, wheat and hay. He keeps about eight head of cattle and has two thoroughbred Jersey cows, making a fine quality of butter for the market. For two years Mr. Hill operated a milk route. He has a very valuable property here and the completion of the electric railway nearby has still further enhanced its value. Mr. Hill's orchards of cherry, plum, peach and apple trees yield abundantly, as also do his grape vines.
Mr. Hill was married (first) to Mary A. Feathers, who died in 1876, aged thirty-four years. She was a daughter of George Feathers, of Mercer County. Of their three children two survive—George H., residing in Slippery Rock Township; and Elsie N., who is the wife of Joseph Gray, residing in Worth County, West Virginia. Mr. Hill was married (secondly) to Cecelia Emeline Wilson, a daughter of John J. Wilson, of Wayne Township. Of this union six children have been born, namely: Hiram Owen, who resides in Pulaski Township; Ira Jerome, a resident of Slippery Rock Township; Evetta, residing at home; Lillie I., who is the wife of Wilson Stewart of New Castle; and Charles and Ella A., both at home. There is one more member of the family, Carrie E., who was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Hill when she was nine days old. The family belong to the Baptist Church, in which Mr. Hill has served on the board of deacons. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are types of the industrious, prudent, intelligent farming people, who are worthy in every relation of life, benevolent to the poor, consistent Christians and good neighbors.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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