Clarke County GaArchives Biographies.....Hill, Eugene Lott 1878 - living in 1923
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Author: H. J. Rowe

DR. E. L. HILL

   Eugene Lott, Hill was born in Montgomery, Ala., on August 2, 1878; and is the
son of Rev. Luther L. Hill and Laura Groom Hill. His primary education was
pursued under the direction of Prof. Geo. W. Thomas, who conducted a boys'
school in Montgomery for more than fifty years. In 1895 he stood the entrance
examination for Princeton College, but loyalty to Southern institutions turned
his course to the Southwestern Presbyterian University, at Clarkesville, Tenn.;
and from this institution he received the A.B. degree in 1897. During the winter
of 1897 and 1898 he taught Latin and Greek in the Hammer Hall Preparatory School
for Boys in Montgomery, Ala.; and entered the Seminary in the fall of 1898,
where he studied under the great theologian, Dr. R. A. Webb, and received the
B.D. degree in June, 1900. Having been licensed by the Presbytery of East
Alabama, he took charge of the church at West Point, Ga., and after one year was
called to the church at Eufaula, Ala., where he spent five of the most
successful years of his life; and was called from Eufaula to the First
Presbyterian Church .of Athens in February, 1907. In 1904 he toured Palestine,
Egypt and Europe. In 1904 he was married to Miss Annie Graham, of Montgomery,
Ala., who has ever been an inspiration and help to him. He holds the A.M. degree
from the University of Georgia and the D. D. degree from his alma mater. He has
moderated the Synod of Georgia; and served as chairman of its Executive
Committee of Synod's Work. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Davidson
College and Columbia Seminary; and is a member of the Assembly's Executive
Committee of Home Missions and the Advisory Board of its Committee on Christian
Education. He was called to the professorship of Hebrew in the Seminary and to
the pastorates of influential churches in Dallas, Texas, Memphis, Tenn.,
Birmingham, Ala., and other cities; but Athens has won his heart and he has
declined to leave. He has preached the baccalaureate sermons at the University
of Georgia in 1920, the State Normal School in 1907, and the Lucy Cobb Institute
in 1908. He has delivered his series of lectures on "Stewardship" at all the
Seminaries in the Southern Presbyterian Church, at the three conference grounds
of the Assembly, and in eight different states. His work as pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Athens is spoken of by Dr. Bishop in his history of the
church.


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HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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