Philip P. Hill Biography, Genesee County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 985-986


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PHILIP P. HILL. This worthy son of a worthy father was born in Genesee 
County, N. Y., November 4, 1845. His parents, Joseph and Sarah (Smith) 
Hill, were both Vermonters, and the father was born July 17, 1814, and 
removed to Genesee County, N. Y., soon after his marriage. There he 
engaged in farming until his emigration in 1846, to Davison Township, 
Genesee County, this State, where he purchased eighty acres of laud, 
and moved into a log house and added to his acreage from year to year 
as he found himself able. His was one of the three families living in 
his school district when it was organized, and he is still living, and 
has been efficient in township affairs, having tilled the office of 
Treasurer and other minor offices. He has been a member of the Baptist 
Church since its organization here and has been a Deacon nearly all his 
years of maturity. His good wife passed from this life, July 24, 1872, 
being then fifty-six years old. She was an earnest and active member of 
the Baptist Church.

   Our subject is one of eight surviving members of his parents' family 
of ten. Up to the age of nine years he attended school, but after that 
age he could go only in the winters as in the summer there was plenty 
of work for the little boy to do on the farm. After he was twenty-one 
years old he began farming the old homestead, and remained there until 
his marriage, May 19, 1872, with Eliza Mann, who was a Canadian by 
birth, and whose father was George Mann, a native of England, born 
April 13, 1809, who came to America in 1839. He followed farming, first 
in Canada and then in Michigan, coming to this county in 1854. He is 
now living in Richfield Township, and his faithful wife, Keziah Lassam, 
who was of English birth, died in 1875.

   Our subject has given to his three children good school advantages. 
Their names are George P., William E. and Sarah E. He is attached to 
the doctrines of the Republican party, but votes the Temperance ticket 
when he feels that that question is uppermost. School offices and the 
position of Highway Commissioner have been his, and he is now Guardian 
of Minors, and as an agriculturist he is deeply interested in the work 
of the Patrons of Industry, and both he and his estimable wife belong 
to the Baptist Church, where he is both Deacon and Treasurer.

   Mr. Hill's one hundred and sixty-two and one-half acres of choice 
land may well he called a model farm, and this property has been gained 
a little at a time. In 1881 he erected a large frame house which is 
truly an ornament to the township, while the splendid condition of the 
farm reflects great credit upon the hand that manages it. Here all 
kinds of live stock are raised, and Mr. Hill introduces progressive 
methods into all his work. He with each of his brothers and sisters 
receive from the generous hand of a father $1,000 each, and all are 
living within an hour's drive of each other, so that they form a 
delightful circle for social and family gatherings. The grandfather, 
Israel Hill, was a Vermonter by birth, and early removed to Western New 
York, where he died in the winter of 1870 at the age of eighty-six 
years.



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