Robert Hill, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on page 1776 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ROBERT HILL, M. D., a leading physician of Ipswich, South Dakota, 
was born in the north of Ireland (County Antrim), April 10, 1865, and is 
the son of Joseph and Harriett (Collins) Hill. The father was also a 
native of North Ireland, is a farmer by occupation, and still resides in 
Ireland, being now in his seventy-sixth year. The mother died in 1892.

	Doctor Hill was reared in County Antrim, and during the period of his 
youth, between the age of eleven and fourteen years, he attended the 
Lesburn Academy. From this institution he matriculated into the Queen's 
University, Belfast, where he partially completed the medical course, 
spending about three years at the university. In 1885 he came to the 
United States and joined his brother in McPherson county, South Dakota, 
with whom he remained a few years, and then went to Keokuk, Iowa, and 
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in that city, where he 
was graduated in 1894. He began the practice of medicine at Leola, 
McPherson county, South Dakota, during the summer of 1894, following 
which he visited his old home in Ireland, where he spent most of that 
winter. In the spring of 1895 he returned to the United States and, 
stopping in New York and Chicago, spent some time in hospital work. He 
then located at Ipswich. The Doctor is a member of the Aberdeen District 
Medical Society, the South Dakota Medical Society and the American Medi-
cal Association. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and also belongs to 
the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees and the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, being medical examiner for the three 
orders. He has served as coroner of McPherson county for the past eight 
years. He is a Republican in politics and in religion is a member of the 
Congregational church.

	Dr. Hill was married, September 18, 1895, to Bird R. Roe, who was 
born in Michigan, and to them have been born three children, Helen 
Harriett, Ruth Elizabeth and Robert Roe.