Biography of J. Logan Hill

J. LOGAN HILL is president and general manager of the
Hill Motor Company, with headquarters in the City of
Welch, McDowell County, and with branches at Bluefield,
Northfork Williamson and Mullens. The company in the
fall of 1921 completed its fine new plant at Welch, and
the same is said to be the sixth in relative size and capac-
ity in the entire United States. Its equipment is main-
tained at the highest modern standard, with the best of
repair shops and storage rooms. The building is six
stories and basement, and is used exclusively for the ac-
commodation of the business of the Hill Motor Company.
Here the company has the agency for the celebrated
Cadillac and Buick automobiles and the White and Com-
merce Motor Trucks. The company's trade territory in-
eludes McDowell, Mercer, Wyoming and Mingo counties,
West Virginia, and Tazewell County, Virginia, and the con-
cern figures also as wholesale dealers in gasoline and
lubricating oils, as well as in general lines of automobile
accessories. The central plant at Welch is probably the
most complete in West Virginia, and the business is of
broad scope and importance, with a constantly cumulative
tendency. The company was organized by Mr. Hill in the
year 1916 and was incorporated with a capital stock of
$20,000. The business of the company for the year 1921
aggregated about one million and a quarter dollars.

John Logan Hill was born at Alderson, Monroe County,
West Virginia, on the 24th of May, 1885, and is a son of
Albert and Leona (Tincher) Hill, the former of whom
was born at old Brownstown, near Charleston, and the
latter in Greenbrier County. The father was engaged in
the insurance business at Alderson at the time of his
death, in 1889, his wife having died in 1887. The
subject of this sketch was thus doubly orphaned when he
was a child of four years, and he was reared in the home
of his maternal grandfather, James G. Tincher. After
having duly attended the public schools Mr. Hill continued
his studies in the Alleghany Collegiate Institute at Al-
derson, and after leaving school he drove a milk wagon
for one of his uncles at Richwood, Nicholas County. Later
he devoted about eight years to clerking in mercantile
establishments, and thereafter he was engaged in the
livery business at Alderson two years. He next accepted
the position of collector for the firm of Hoffmyer & Deg-
gans at Mount Hope, and after serving three years in this
capacity he removed, in 1914, to Welch. In 1916 he here
organized the Hill Motor Company, and in this connection
he has gained fine vantage-place as one of the progres-
sive and representative young business men of the city.
He is a republican in politics, and has given loyal service
as a member of the City Council. He is a Knight Templar
Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine.

In 1907 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hill and
Miss Arlie E. Sly, of Spartansburg, Pennsylvania, and
they have one son, Howard.


Source: The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 639

Submitted by Valerie F. Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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