SAM HILL
Arizona Republican Newspaper
December 17 ,1901

Prescott--Samuel Hill, a pioneer merchant of this city, 
died at Paso Robles, Cal. at 12:10 today of bronchitis. 
He was 56 years of age.  A wife and three children survive 
him.

He left England in 1863 and went to Oregon in 1865.  He was 
a trooper in the United States Cavalry and was afterward 
clerk of the quartermaster's department at San Francisco.  
He was clerk of the quartermaster's department at Fort 
McDowell in 1875 under Captain McGregor, General Crook, 
commanding.  He was afterward chief clerk of the 
quartermaster's department at Fort Whipple under Captain 
Simpson, General Kautz commanding.

He went into the hardware business in Prescott in 1877 under 
the name of Fredericks and Hill.  He was afterwards at 
Tombstone, where he was burned out in 1881. He lived in 
Phoenix from 1884 to 1887.  Since then he resided at 
Prescott.  Interment will take place here Monday.