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October Is, 1883, died December 13, 1853;
 and William B., born March g, 1887, who is now 8 farmer in Fairfield town ship. The only child of the second mar riage, Betsey A, born September IF, 1847, died April 2, 1851.
 TX. Nathaniel Barlow Hill was born September A, 1882, at the old homestead in Fairfield township, and his education was begun in the local schools, his fa- ther being his first teacher. Another in- structor whom he especially remembers was Minot Banks, and after completing the course offered in the home school, he studied for one winter under Zalmon Wakeman, who conducted a'seleet school
 at Greenfield Hill. When IF years old he began to learn sthe miller's trade with l his father, and spent three years in that ! business. In the spring of 1858 he sailed
 from New York with two comrades, Will.
 liam Sherwood and Edgar A. Pennoyer
 on the full.rigged ship "Fiorida" makir z
 8 voyage to Australia, via the Cape of Good Hope, and after 19 weeks landing ! at Fort Phillip, Melbourne. For more
 than three years he was engaged in min
 ing in Australia, and on his return he
 sailed first for London in the full.rigged
 ship "Blackwall, "by way of Cape Horn,
 stopping en route st Pernambuco, South America. From London he sailed fer
 New York in the full-rigged ship, South ampton,'' thus completing 8 journey
 around the world, and soon after land
 ing he made trip through the Western
 States, prospecting for copgenial loes-
 tion. While in Illinois he was taken Ill,
 compelling him to return home, and as
 his father was having the mill repaired
 our subject resumed his work there. On I December IF, 1856, as he was putting
 some corn in the hopper, connecting pin in the shafting caught his trousers,
 irresistibly drawing him within it's pow CT, and he was thrawn round and round
 by the action of the shaft. His limbs
 were badly Injured, and his recovery
 seemed almost miracle; but having a powerful constitution, together with the
 beat surgical skill obtainabIe, he was
 able to walk without -crutches after
 more than two years of suffering. Ou i November 27, 1862, Mir Hill married Miss
 Mary K. Morehouse, who was born June
 5. I844, next to the youngest in the
 family of five childre1 of Dea William B. and Mary Uyon) Morehouse. Hel father was an extensive agricnlturist ot :. Fairfield township, and was he Id in high
 esteem in that locality. Mrs Hill, who has been most excellent helpmeet, val educated in the Burr district school 1T Fairfield township, and in the academy on Greenfield Hill. Our subject pur chased his present homestead before hii mar riage and has since resided there, hi handsome dwelling house having bee, built by him in 1882. Of his five chil : dren, the eldest, William B., born Sep l tember g, 1863, was graduated iron 2 Yale college in 1886, and was alread. 3 | winning fine reputation as teache r and civil engineer, when death, in June t 1898, cut short promising career t Horace E.. isa resident of Bridgeport z Joseph Is 8 farmer in Easton stownahiT F Wakeman B. Is at home. Charles L. z who graduated from Yale college i d 1895. when less than 2 years old. and ] h 1897 from the Ya1s Law School. is nov a an attorney at Bridgeport. Dea Hill ha r always taken keen interest in politics ' being one of the active republicans C t his locality. and he has served as justic r of the peace and registrar For man ]. years he has been leading member ( d the Congregational church, having fel !, the office of senior deacon some 30 year Y At varioua times he served as superb <: tendent of the Sunday school, making q years in all, snd since his resignation hi l. son Charles L. has held the position n ! The family is prominent socially and M