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OBITUARY: attachment received May 9, 2001 from Marilyn Maxwell Strout. Announcement of the death last Saturday of Henry E. Hill caused sincere sorrow in many homes. He was one of the oldest and best loved citizens of St. Stephen, was widely known and esteemed, and to a marked degree had the faculty of holding friendship once made.
Mr. Hill was born in St. Stehen so long ago as July 26, 1848, a son of the Honorable George S and Sarah Upton Hill, one of a distinguished family of nine, five sons and four daughters. Educated in the schools of St. Stephen and Calalis, he was a life long resident but in later years had traveled quite extensively.
In 1876 he married Miss Lavina Borden of Canning, NS, one of the first of the "free schools" teachers. Some remember her fondly as their first teacher when her schoolroom was upstairs in the engine hall on Marks Street. She died in 1895 and Mr. Hill never again married.
Mr. Hill began his business career with the old firm of Hill & Robinson in 1867 in the present stand to Henry McAleenan. Afterwards he went into business for himself in 1882 on the opposite corner. There he did a general store, lumber and shipping business until 1912 when the general store business was sold to his sons, Leroy and Evans, afterwards devoting his attention to the linen business, that had developed large proportions on the 2nd floor. His patronage was widely extended in all his understaking and he was universally esteemed.
In politics he was an ardent Liberal but though often urged, would never himself become a candidate for either house. Some years ago he was a member of the town council. He was a member of the militia for 2 yrs at the time of the Fenian Raid, a member of the old Howard Division, sons of Temperance, and a member of the Methodist Church and regular in attendance so long as his health permitted.
Of late years he had been an active member of the Agricultural Society of the hostpial board and of the school board. Several winters have been spent in Florida where he had a severe shock in the winter of 1923 from which he never altogether recovered.
The surviving family are 4 sons, Fred B. of Revelstoke BC, Loroy, Ernest & Evans in St. Stephen and 2 daughters, Mrs. Jacob Dewitt of Montreal and Miss Kathleen in St. Stephen. The funeral services was held Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. Heaney of McColl Methodist Church and was largely attended.
RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Information provided to T.Mason on 8 Oct 2002 by Judith DeWitt <judith@dewitt.ca>.
CENSUS: 1871. English. teacher. single. Methodist.
[articles transcribed by Kate Gallison] According to Ann DeWitt, Kathleen Hill was a nurse (and possibly a nursing teacher) at the Royal Victoria College in Montreal.
Soon after the Henry Hill family took up residence in the large King Street house Kathleen went to Montreal to take nurse's training at the Royal Victoria Hospital, then post- graduate work at McGill University, after which she held several different nursing positions of responsibility both in Canada and the United States. Before Henry Hill died in 1924 she returned to St. Stephen to care for her father during his last years. -- St. Croix Courier March 24, 1966BURIAL: Mehan & Son,, St. Stephen, N.B.
RESEARCHER-DESCENDANTS: Information provided to T.Mason on 18 Mar 2003 by Melanie Clay-Smith <mclaysmith@excite.com>t;.
