BIO: William HILLING, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 394.
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  WILLIAM HILLING, owner and proprietor of the Chesterfield House, a first 
class hotel at Ventland, Pa., which was started in June, 1906, is a native of 
Wales, where he was born May 4, 1852, and is a son of George and Eliza (Lewis) 
Hilling, and a grandson of John Hilling.
  William Hilling is one of a family of ten children, being the eighth in order 
of birth, his brothers and sisters bearing the following names:  James, Mary, 
Thomas, George, John, Eliza, Margaret, Lewis and Joshua.  Mr. Hilling obtained 
his education in his native land where he remained until 1881, when he came to 
the United States.  He located at Philipsburg, Pa., and worked in the coal 
mines in that neighborhood for ten years and then conducted a store for six 
years longer and was also in the coal business there for four years, when he 
moved to McCartney, Pa., and carried on a coal business there for six years.  
From there he came to Ventland and opened up his present hotel and has been 
very successful in this enterprise.
  Mr. Hilling was married in 1872 to Miss Margaret Powell, a daughter of 
William and Margaret (Williams) Powell, who were natives of Wales and had four 
other children:  William, Richard, Sarah and Mary.  Mr. and Mrs. Hilling have 
had three children; Margaret, who died in childhood; and Joshua and Thomas.  
Mr. and Mrs. Hilling are members of the Episcopal church.  In politics he is a 
Democrat and in 1895 he was elected on the Democratic ticket, supervisor in 
Decatur township, in which he was then living.  He is a member of the L. O. O. 
M. at Philipsburg.