Arthur G. Hill Biography


	This biography appears on pages 771-772 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ARTHUR G. HILL is a native of Warwickshire, England, where he was 
born on the 7th of December, 1863, being a son of Thomas and Harriet L. 
(Brian") Hill, of whose five children four are living. The father of 
the subject was a watch manufacturer and he died in his native land, at 
the age of fifty-seven years, while his wife recently passed away at 
the age of seventy-two years. Arthur G. Hill received his early 
educational training in the common schools of his native county, 
completing a course in the high school at Coventry and thereafter 
continuing his studies in Northampton College, where he remained four 
years. He passed the examination for matriculation in Cambridge 
University, but instead of entering this world famed institution turned 
his attention to business affairs. He was employed for six years in the 
office of a prominent business concern in the city of Liverpool, and at 
the expiration of this period, in 1884, he severed the home ties and 
set forth to seek his fortunes in the new world. He landed in the city 
of New York and shortly afterward started for the territory of Dakota, 
here to establish a home amid scenes and conditions radically different 
from those which he had previously known. He located in Buffalo county 
in April, 1884, and was here engaged in ranching for six years, his 
energy and discrimination enabling him to attain success in connection 
with his new industrial venture, while he became the owner of a 
valuable farm of three hundred and twenty acres. In the spring of 1897 
he took up his residence in Gann Valley, where he became associated 
with Ellsworth E. Dye in the real estate business, under the firm name 
of Dye & Hill. They also purchased the Dakota Chief, a weekly paper, of 
which they have since continued editors and publishers, the paper being 
an effective representative of local interests and of the principles of 
the Republican party. The firm still continue their real-estate 
enterprise, which has become one of no inconsiderable scope and 
importance, and they have the only set of abstracts of titles in the 
county. In November, 1898, Messrs. Hill and Dye gave a further 
exemplification of their enterprising spirit by establishing the Bank 
of Buffalo County, which they still conduct, the institution being one 
of the solid monetary concerns of the state and securing a 
representative support.  

	Mr. Hill is a staunch advocate of the principles and policies of 
the Republican party and is a zealous worker in its cause, being at the 
present time a member of the state central committee, as a 
representative of this county. In 1890 he was elected county auditor, 
in which capacity he served four years, while in 1894 he was elected 
register of deeds, of which position he was incumbent for two years. He 
is well known throughout the county and both he and his coadjutor, Mr. 
Dye, are held in the highest esteem as careful, reliable and 
progressive business men and public-spirited citizens. Mr. Hill is also 
one of the stockholders in the co-operative creamery, a prosperous 
enterprise in Gann Valley, and is at the present time treasurer of the 
company controlling and operating the same. Fraternally he is 
identified with the Masonic order and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. He is one of the trustees of the Gann Valley Congregational 
church.  

	On the 18th of March, 1890, Mr. Hall was united in marriage to 
Miss Mary M. Stroud, a daughter of John Stroud, a prominent resident of 
Buffalo county, and of this union have keen born two children, Olive L. 
and Florence C. Mrs. Hill was born and reared in Polk county, Iowa, and 
is prominent in the social life of her home city.