U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hill, Edgar A. (1865-1958) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 445-447 E. A. HILL, M. D., a prominent physician and surgeon of Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia, was born September 5, 1865, near the headwaters of McKim Creek, Tyler County, West Virginia, and is a son of Ira and Melvina Jane (Joseph) Hill, both of whom were natives of Tyler County. Dr. Hill comes of old established families of Tyler County, of Welsh-Irish stock, pioneers from Eastern Virginia. The Hills are very numerous in Tyler County, although all have not descended from the same common ancestry. Thomas Hill, the great-grandfather of Dr. Hill, was reared in the vicinity of Mannington, Marion County, and was the founder of the family in Tyler County, near McKim Creek. There Ira Hill, the father of Dr. Hill, was born, being a son of Horace and Margaret (Davis) Hill, who were also natives of the same section. Ira Hill still resides near McKim Creek, aged about 55 years. Mr. Hill first married Melvina Jane Joseph, who was a daughter of Nathan and Ann (Hustead) Joseph, residents of Joseph's Mills, Tyler County, where Nathan Joseph's father founded the family early in the last century, coming from Virginia. Mr. Joseph still resides in the old homestead at Joseph's Mills at the age of 86 years. The mother of Dr. Hill died when he was about two years old and he is the only surviver of her three children. The second marriage of Ira Hill to Salina Gregg resulted in two sons, of whom the survivor, Leonidas, resides at home. Dr. E. A. Hill was reared a farm boy in Tyler County, and passed his youth alternating between attendance at the local schools and work on the farm. At the age of 20 years he began to teach school, and followed this profession four years, spending part of the time in attending school himself. His medical education was commenced under Dr. I. S. Jones, of Mole Hill, Ritchie County, West Virginia. He then spent one year in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, subsequently entering Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in medicine in 1892. In 1898 Dr. Hill took a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic Medical College and Hospital. After his graduation in 1892 he entered into practice at Shirley, Tyler County, where he continued for six years. After his return from his post-graduate course in New York, he engaged in practice for one year at Pine Forks, an oil district, and one year at West Union, in Doddridge County. Dr. Hill then removed to Harrison County, locating at Salem, since which time he has been successfully engaged in practice all through his section of the county, particularly at Salem and Wolf Summit. In 1888, Dr. Hill married Angeline Harper, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Markle) Harper, natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Harper resided near Pennsboro, Ritchie County, West Virginia, from 1865; the former died in 1902, and the latter in 1903. Mrs. Hill was born in the home in Ritchie County, in 1866. Two children have been born to this union, Albert Bleile, whose birth occurred July 26, 1893; and a son born March 20, 1895, who died in infancy. Dr. Hill has given faithful and efficient service during his residence in Harrison County, and is highly esteemed both by the profession and the public. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Harrison County, WV #'58-014658 FULL-NAME: Dr. Edgar A. Hill BIRTH-DATE: September 5, 1866 BIRTH-PLACE: Tyler County, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: November 7, 1958 (at 92 years of age) DEATH-PLACE: St. Marys Hospital, Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: Gore Hotel, Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Med. Doctor FATHER: I. T. Hill MOTHER: Jane Joseph CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Gastro-intestinal hemorrhage INFORMANT: A. B. Hill (of Los Angeles, California) BURIAL: Masonic, Pennsboro, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Harrison County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/harrison/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------