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William Hill ~ Elizabeth Boyd - Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
William Hill, superintendent of the Allegheny workhouse and president of the First National bank of Carnegie, was born in County Down, Ireland, December 3, 1837. His parents, David and Elizabeth (Dixon) Hill, came to America in 1841, and located in Allegheny county, near Carnegie, where Mr Hill, who had been a schoolmaster in Ireland, continued his occupation as school teacher for a time. Later he devoted his attention to farming and continued at that occupation until he moved to Carnegie, where he died a year afterwards at the age of sixty-three. William Hill, the subject of this sketch, is the oldest of four children. Margaret died in February, 1902, when about sixty-two years old; Elizabeth, now living in Carnegie, married David Given, who died in 1885, and Ellen is the wife of A. W. Ewing, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. William Hill received a common school education and then spent several years as a farmer. In 1876 he gave up agricultural pursuits and started the first brick and lumber business at Carnegie, and was engaged in this business for several years. He was justice of the peace for fifteen years, and resigned in 1876 when he became a member of the state legislature, serving in this capacity in the sessions between 1876 and 1879. After this he was mercantile appraiser for a year, and later served one three year term as county treasurer. In 1886 Mr Hill first became connected with the county workhouse, and has for the past sixteen years been an influential member of the workhouse board. Since 1891 he has been superintendent of the workhouse, and his long and efficient service has been an important factor in the success and usefulness of that institution. He has served several terms as school director, and was the first burgess of Carnegie, serving in that capacity three terms. He is now chairman of the Carnegie library commission. Mr Hill was a director of the old Mechanics' National bank of Pittsburg for several years, before that institution was superseded by the First National bank of Pittsburg, and has been president of the First National bank of Carnegie since 1895. Before coming to Carnegie in 1896, Mr Hill resided for several years in Clermont, PA. He is now one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Carnegie, and is universally respected by all who know him. On June 15, 1887, Mr Hill married Miss Elizabeth Boyd, daughter of William and Jane (Walker) Boyd, of Walker's Mills, both of whom are now dead. His youngest child, Boyd D. Hill, died in 1895, when three years old, and two others are living: Jane Boyd Hill and William D. Hill. Mr and Mrs Hill are members of the United Presbyterian church, in which Mr Hill has been actively interested for thirty years. During this time he has held many offices of responsibility, serving as trustee, church treasurer, superintendent of the Sunday school and in other capacities. He has been active in the construction of three churches, and was a member of the committee which had charge of the erection of the last church. Source: Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal
and genealogical. Vol. 1
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