BIO:  J. L. HILL, M.D., Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 356

J. L. HILL, M.D., dentist, Gettysburg, was born in Fairfield, Adams Co., Penn., 
October 31, 1820, a son of James and Rebecca (Foster) Hill.  His paternal and 
maternal ancestors were among the early English and Scotch-Irish settlers of 
Pennsylvania, having settled here prior to the Revolutionary war.  James Hill 
was a tanner, an occupation he followed for many years in this county, though 
the latter part of his life was passed in Ohio.  He was twice married, the 
Doctor being by the first marriage.  Our subject’s mother died when he was quite 
young, and he was reared among strangers until fifteen years of age, when he 
began to learn the tanner’s trade with his father.  Not liking the business he 
learned the jeweler’s trade, and worked at manufacturing clocks and repairing 
watches both in Ohio and Pennsylvania.  While engaged at this occupation he 
studied dentistry, and while practicing dentistry read medicine, and 
subsequently entered the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia, where he 
graduated with the degree of M.D., in 1846, and the same year commenced the 
practice of dentistry at Gettysburg, which he has continued to the present time.  
In 1847, Dr. Hill was married to Sarah M., daughter of William Witherow, and to 
this union have been born the following named:  William Foster, a civil 
engineer, now of Albuquergue, N.M.; John L., a lawyer and justice of the peace, 
in Gettysburg; Harry H., a clerk, in Gettysburg; Mary Louise; Elizabeth T. and 
James M., a dentist, in Gettysburg.  Mrs. Hill is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church.  In politics Dr. Hill is a Republican.  He is a member of Good Samaritan 
Lodge, A. Y. Masons; also of the I.O.O.F., both of the subordinate and 
encampment lodges, and is a member of the Order of Red Men.