The age-herald., 1901-02-01
DR. I. ]. DILL
 DIED YESTERDAY Passed Away at His Home at
 East Lake.
WAS VENERABLE EDUCATOR
For Thirty Years Was Professor of Lan- euages at Howard Colleee-The Funeral Arraneements-A
 Sketch of His Life.

Dr. T. J. Dill, the well-known educator who for thirty years was the professor of languages at Howard College. died at his home in East Lake yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock. He had been critically Ill for three or four weeks, during the whole of which time there was but little hope for his recovery. The primary cause of death was abdominal tuberculosis He had almost reached the age of 76, and his feebleness rendered him less able to resist the rav- ages of disease.
 On account of his advanced age Dr. Dill retired from the chair of languages at How ard College last June. a position he had filled with distinguished ability for six years more tha na quarter of a century.
 The funeral will take place this afternoon from Ruhama Baptist Church, East Lake. His body will be inferred in Ruhama Csm- etery. Rev. J. M. shelburne will conduct the funeral services, and he will be assisted by pr. B. D. Gray pastor of the First Bap- tist Church. and pr. A. c. Davidson, pastor of the Southside Baptist Church.
 The active pall-bearers will be F. M. Roof, president of Howard College, and the fol- lowing members of the faculty Prof. R. J. Waldrop, Prof. E. H. Foster, Prof. Edward Brand and Prof. A. D. Smith and Perry Fowlkes of the board of trustees. The pail bearers will meet this morning at the late residence of the deceased.
 The surviving members of Dr. Dilrs fam lily are: Mrs-Ja Dill, wife; Rev pr. Jack S. Dill, pastor of the First Baptist Church Fredericksburg, Va; Prof. Joseph M. Dill, principal of the High School at Newcastle, Ala; W. Y. Dill, druggist, Birmingham; Henry R. Dill member of the Legislature from Jefferson County, sons, and E. D. McIver of the Alabama Great Southern office, nephew.
 Sketch of His Life.
 Dr. Dill was born on Edista Island, South Carolina, November 8, 1925. His father was a leading physician of the State of South Carolina.
 He was educated in the University of South Carolina and graduated at the age of 20, second honor man in a class of sixty.
 He taught high school in Charleston four years after graduation, and moved to Dallas County, Alabama. in 1S49 and taught one school twenty years.
 In 1869 he was elected to a professorship in Howard College and served the college for thirty-one years in that capacity His is the longest service ever rendered How ard College by any one man, and no one has ever rendered a more faithful or ef- ficient service He resigned his professor ship in the college in June, 1899, to take ef- feet the following year.
 Dr. Dill was ripe scholar, and in Greek and Latin, the branches that he taught, he was recognized authority. He was the author of a Latin textbook, was ire quent contributor to his denominational paper, and whatever he wrote was always read with great interest.
 At the time he was taken sick he was writing a series of articles for the Ala bama Baptist on the Women of the Bi- ble," three of which have been published
 pr. Dill was married to Miss Jane Lee Alison of Charleston, s. C., in October, 1851. Next October would have brought them to their golden wedding day. Nine children were born of this union, four of whom, with the wife and an adopted son, survive to mourn the death of husband and father.
 pr. Dill was faithful and devoted mem- Der of the Baptist Church. It was one of his regrets in his later life that he had not connected himself with the church earlier in life. He joined the church after he was 40 years old. But he made rapid growth In the Christian life, and attained unto very exalted heights of Christian character. He died full of honors, full of faith, and in the fullness of the Christians hope of an right hand.