Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....HILL, John  17xx - 1834
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  JOHN HILL. This early pioneer was the first permanent settler on the Loyalsock
  Creek, in Hillsgrove township, Sullivan County, Pa. He bought his land, with the
  improvements on it that had been already made, of a man by the name of Ogden,
  who took his family in a canoe and went farther down the creek.
  
    John Hill was a native of Upton, Leicester County, England. He left Liverpool
  November 15, 1793, and after a thirteen weeks' passage landed at New York
  February 18, 1794. He was a man of fine education, as his books and writings
  testify. On March 15, 1796, he was married to Mary Robb, daughter of Robert and
  Susanna Robb of Muncy, Pa. He died July 1, 1834, aged eighty-two years; his wife
  Mary's age and death are not recorded, but it is known that she lived to a good
  old age, respected by all who knew her. Their home was a house of entertainment
  for travelers during their married lives. The old Hill property has been a home
  for travelers for one hundred years, and still is; at the present date (1899) it
  is conducted as a licensed hotel. To John and Mary Hill were born four children,
  as follows: Susanna, born October 14, 1797, married Joseph Sadler, an account of
  whose life follows in this sketch; Mary, born April 14, 1799, married David
  Rogers, and reared a family of three daughters and two sons, dying in 1858; John
  Cheatle, born March 31, 1801, died a bachelor October 4, 1841, at the age of
  forty; and Martha Jane, born January 15, 1805, and married to Isaac Craven,—she
  reared a family of three sons and two daughters, and lived to a good old age.
  
    Joseph Sadler, who married Susanna Hill in 1819, was a son of Samuel Sadler of
  Liverpool, England. Joseph Sadler established the Sadler family in Sullivan
  County, and lived there until his death June 3, 1820. His wife lived to the age
  of sixty-seven years and eleven months. Their only child was John J.
  
    John J. Sadler was born in Sullivan County March 21, 1820, and after growing
  up settled upon the old homestead left him by his father. He resided there and
  actively engaged in agricultural and lumbering pursuits until his death,
  September 12, 1890. He is survived by his wife, who now lives in the village of
  Hillsgrove. On November 3, 1853, he was united in marriage with Anna H.
  Bothwell, who was born in Canton, Bradford County, Pa., October 26, 1834, and
  they reared six children: Harriet W., born August 1, 1854. and died August 28,
  1856; Claudius W., born November 14, 1856; Justin S., born August 22, 1859, and
  died March 1, 1860; Clara A., born April 22, 1861, is the wife of Malcolm
  McCormick, and lives at Wausau, Wis.; Alex. H., born April 22, 1864, died May
  13, 1866; and Charles R., a barber by trade living in New Albany, Pa., born
  January n, 1866, and married to Philena Sherman.
  
    Claudius W. Sadler obtained a public school education and after leaving school
  engaged in working for the tannery in Hillsgrove, hauling bark and lumber. He
  followed that line of work for five years, after which he located on the Susanna
  Sadler property, where he has since resided. He has greatly improved the farm
  and has added to it, until there is now 100 acres in all. He has carried on
  general farming and has by good management been very successful. He is a man of
  honor and possesses the esteem of his neighbors and many friends throughout the
  township. On November 17, 1884, he was united in marriage with Laura Hoagland,
  who was born in the village of Shunk, Sullivan County, February 14, 1861, and is
  a daughter of Uriah and Electa (Peppers) Hoagland, both of whom now reside in
  Shunk. Politically Mr. Sadler is a Republican. He is a member of Hillsgrove
  Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Shunk Lodge, No. 220, P. O. S. of A. In religious
  attachments his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hillsgrove.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
    
    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
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