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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JOSEPH MORRISON HILL.
    Joseph Morrison Hill, for thirty-four years a member of the Fort Smith bar,
save for his four years' service as chief justice of the supreme court of
Arkansas, was born September 2, 1864, at Davidson College, Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina. His father, Daniel Harvey Hill, was a descendant of Colonel
William Hill, commander of a regiment in Sumter's brigade, and also of Thomas
Caheen, who served as a private in Sumter's brigade in the Revolutionary war.
Daniel Harvey Hill was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West
Point with the class of 1842. He was promoted from the rank of second lieutenant
to that of major during the Mexican war and later he was professor of
mathematics in Washington College, now the Washington and Lee University. He
afterward filled the position of professor of mathematics at Davidson College
and next was superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute at
Charlotte in that state. He served in the Confederate army as a colonel of the
First North Carolina Regiment and became successively brigadier general, major
general and lieutenant general, C. S. A. He was afterward well known as editor,
writer and educator and filled a notable place in connection with the history of
the south. From 1877 until 1885 he was president of the University of Arkansas.
He married Isabella Morrison, a daughter of the Rev. Robert Hall Morrison, a
distinguished Presbyterian minister and the first president of Davidson College.
On the maternal side Judge Hill is descended from Joseph Graham, a lieutenant of
the American army in the Revolutionary war and later a major general.

    Judge Hill pursued his classical education in the University of Arkansas and
afterward attended the Lebanon Law School of Lebanon, Tennessee, from which he
was graduated with the LL. B. degree. He was admitted to the bar at Berryville,
Carroll county, Arkansas, September 11, 1S83, and was engaged in the practice of
law at Eureka Springs, this state, from that date until 1887. He then removed to
Fort Smith and has since been a representative of the bar of this city, save for
the four years of his service as chief justice of the supreme court of the
state, to which office he was called on the 1st of November, 1904, remaining in
active connection with that high tribunal until February 1, 1909, when he
resigned to accept the position of chief counsel for the state in the railroad
rate cases, which he won for the state before the supreme court of the United
States. He now has an extensive clientele and has long been regarded as one of
the most eminent representatives of the har in the southwest.

    On the 19th of November, 1890, at Lake Village, Arkansas, Judge Hill was
married to Miss Kate Reynolds, a daughter of General D. H. Reynolds, who was a
brigadier general in the Confederate army, also a member of the Arkansas state
senate and a mos-t distinguished lawyer. Judge and Mrs. Hill have two daughters:
Martha, the wife of David R. Williams; and Isabel Preston, the wife of John C.
Hill. Judge Hill belongs to the Country Club of Fort Smith, to the Elks lodge
and to the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Belle Point Lodge, No. 20,
F. & A. M. In politics he has always been a stalwart democrat and was permanent
chairman of the state democratic convention in 1920. In 1918 he served as a
member of the district exemption board of the western district of Arkansas, and
since June, 1909, he has been president of the board of trustees of the Arkansas
Tuberculosis sanitarium. His keen interest in everything pertaining to the
welfare and progress of the state has been manifest in many tangible ways, while
his service on the bench was one that reflected honor and credit upon the people
who had honored him.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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