East Baton Rouge-West Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Hill, George August 28, 1858 - 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

George Hill, a retired sugar planter residing at Port Allen, West Baton Rouge 
Parish, is well upholding the honors of a family name which represents more 
than passing distinction in connection with Louisiana history, as may be seen 
by referring to the memoir that is dedicated to his father, the late John Hill, 
in a preceding sketch.  By John Hill was given to the Louisiana State 
University its fine Hill Memorial Library Building, a gift indicating alike his 
civic liberality, his generosity and his deep appreciation of the higher ideals 
of human thought and action.  As the memoir mentioned gives adequate record 
concerning the career of the father and a general outline of the family 
history, this data do not require repetition in the article here represented.

George Hill was born in the City of Baton Rouge, the fair old capital of 
Louisiana, and the state of his nativity was August 28, 1858.  He was reared on 
his father's plantation estate, known as the homestead Plantation, in West 
Baton Rouge Parish, and there gained his early education under the 
preceptorship of private tutors.  He advanced his education by attending for a 
time the Louisiana State University and was a student also in historic old 
Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia.  After leaving college he 
became actively associated with plantation enterprise and successfully 
reclaimed and rebuilt two plantations in West Baton Rouge Parish.  These he 
operated a number of years, but upon the death of his honored father he sold 
the properties in order to preserve and operate the latter's, the Homestead 
Plantation, two-thirds of this estate being owned by him at the present time 
and the place comprising a tract of 2,000 acres of land.  Mr. Hill resides in 
the handsome modern home, a building erected by him in 1915.

As a citizen and man of affairs Mr. Hill has shown the same splendid ideals of 
personal stewardship as did his honored father, and his aid and influence are 
to be counted upon in the advancing of measures and enterprises projected for 
the general good of the community.  In local and state politics he supports the 
cause and candidates of the democratic party.  He has been a member of the 
Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University for over twenty years.  
He is a director of the Bank of Baton Rouge, and has held this position more 
than twenty-five years.  Mr. Hill was specially loyal and zealous in furthering 
local patriotic activities in the World war period, which found him a worker in 
the drives for the sale of government war bonds, as well as in support of Red 
Cross work, etc.  He was chairman of the parish committee in charge of the 
drive for the sale of the government War Savings Stamps, and later served in a 
similar capacity in the vigorous campaign for the raising of funds for the fine 
monument to be erected on the campus of the new Louisiana State University and 
Agricultural and Mechanical College, as a memorial to the gallant young 
Louisiana soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the great World 
conflict.  Aside from his active service in connection with war work Mr. Hill 
made his personal contributions of most liberal financial order.  The same 
liberality has characterized his support of charitable and philanthropic 
agencies, and it is a matter of record that he subscribed $35,000 for the 
erection of the fine new edifice of the First Presbyterian Church in the City 
of Baton Rouge.  This building is to be completed in the near future.  He is 
affiliated with the Beta Chapter of the Delta Psi fraternity.

Mr. Hill retired in 1921 from the active management of the Homestead Plantation.

On the 26th of June, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hill, at Brewton, 
Alabama, to Miss Carrie Lee Taylor, who was born in the City of Montgomery, 
that state.  Mr. and Mrs. Hill have two children:  Catherine Marion is, in 
1923, a student in the Port Allen High School, and John is attending the same 
school.  Mr. Hill has two sisters, Miss Katherine M. Hill, residing in Baton 
Rouge, and Mrs. F. H. Carruth, residing in West Baton Rouge.

Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 294, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.


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