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

FRANK HILL.
    Frank Hill, who for many years was engaged in farming and is now a teaming
contractor living in El Dorado, was born in Union county, Arkansas, a son of
Jesse W. and Rebecca (Morrison) Hill, who were natives of Georgia and Alabama,
respectively. The mother has departed this life, but the father is living, in
his eighty-second year, and makes his home in El Dorado. He engaged in farming
until 1909, when he retired from active life. He arrived in Union county,
Arkansas, as a child with his parents in the year 1843, the family settling near
Hillsboro, and through the intervening period of almost fourscore years he has
continued his residence in this county. He was four years in the Civil war,
having volunteered, and served from the beginning to the close of the war. He
was wounded eight times during his service.

    Frank Hill was educated in the district schools of Union county and on
reaching adult age he engaged in farming, with which he was actively identified
for a long period. He had been trained to the work of the fields, so that his
experience had well qualified him for the duties which he took up on reaching
his majority. At the present writing he is also numbered among the oil men who
are operating in the oil field of El Dorado. He is likewise well known as a
teaming contractor, working as high as forty mule teams daily.

    In 1904 Mr. Hill was married to Miss Lillie Parnell, a native of Union
county, and they have become parents of a son, Jesse Proctor, who is attending
high school.

    It was in the year 1913 that Mr. Hill established his home in El Dorado,
where he has remained. He belongs to the Woodmen of the World and he has
membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, South, with which his wife and son
are also identified. He likewise is owner of the land on which the first
producing oil well was drilled in the El Dorado field. The discovery of oil and
the development of the oil industry is constituting a great source of wealth in
this state and Mr. Hill is bearing his part in shaping the history of the
community in connection with the oil industry.


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


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