BIO:  Robert M. B. HILL, Cumberland Township, 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 402

ROBERT M. B. HILL, farmer, P.O. Green Mount, was born in Liberty Township, Adams 
Co., Penn., May 5, 1822, a son of Martin and Jane (Johnston) Hill, also natives 
of Adams County, and of Scotch-Irish origin.  Martin Hill was a farmer through 
life, and was the father of four children, of whom Robert M. B. is the youngest.  
Our subject was reared on his father’s farm, and received a common school 
education.  In early manhood he went to McLean County, Ill., where for three 
years he was engaged in the butchering business, after which he returned to 
Pennsylvania, and located in Franklin County, and embarked in the dry goods 
trade.  After remaining in the business one year he returned to Adams County, 
and engaged in the nursery business as traveling salesman, in which he remained 
two years, since when he has made farming his occupation.  He owns the farm on 
which he now resides, and has himself accumulated the most of what he possesses.  
In 1875 he was married to Levina Hess, daughter of Jonathan Hess, a native of 
Fulton County, Penn.; she is of Scotch-Irish descent.  Mr. and Mrs. Hill are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.  In politics he is a Republican.