The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
T,T,H|LLMAN DIES
 AT ATLANTIC CITY, Pioneer of Birmingham Passed Away After Long Illness WAS GENEROUS AND KIND Had Large Financial Interests and Gave LlberaIly to Various Good
 causes-Sketch of His
 Life and Work.

r T Hillman, one of Birmingham foremost citizens, passed away at At lantic City yesterday afternoon after an illness of many weeks. He is survived py a wife, a brother, who resides In Pitts- burg; two half brothers, who live in Bir- mingham, Gentry Hillman and James Ii. Hillman, and two sisters, Mrs D. C. Scales of Nashville and Mrs. Mamie II. Franklin of Gallatin, Tenn. Mrs. Hili- man. Mrs. Scales and Mrs. Franklin had been tenderly watching at the bedside throughout the fatal illness, and were with the dying man constantly In his last hours.
 MT. Hillman was never regarded as B strong man physically, but he was fnli of energy and pluck and apparently had been in his usual health until the early summer.
 He then became afflicted with serious ailment and despite the best medical at tention his condition grew alarming. Early in June pr. Finney of Baltimore was call ed to Birmingham to perform a surgical operation on MT. Hillman. From this operation the patient seemed to rally. He was taken to Atlantic City the latter part of June in the hope of being braced by the sea breezes, but soon after arriy- ing there a turn for the worse came and his life ebbed steadily away until the
 moment of the final summons. The body will be sent this afternoon from Atlantic City to Nashville, the de- ceased's former home, and the funeral f,, NaQhui1la M0pdaX af- ternoon.
 Active Business. MT. HiIlman was at the time or his death the president of the Pratt Consoli- dated Coal company, one of the largest
 and most successful corporations in the south He was a director in the First Ma tional bank of Birmingham, having served in that capacity during twenty-one years with the exception of 1892 and 1893. He was the last of the original directors oi that institution He was a director in the Birmingham Railway, Light and | Power company, and was a stockholder 1 in many of the most substantial com I panes of the Birmingham district. He had accumulated large wealth, and every dol l lar honestly, all of his business asso- 1 ciates will readily attest. His estate ia perhaps worth something like $2.OOO,000. l MT. Hillman was communicant of the
 Methodist church, and was an active member of the board of stewards of the I First church of Birmingham. He was one I of the most generous contributors to the | building fund of It's splendid edifice at the
 corner of Ninteenth street and Sixth 1 avenue He made large gift to the Hill
 man hospital. His benefactions in a quiet
 way had wide range and were numerous
 and substantial. The stewards of the
 Methodist church will meet at 10 o'clock
 today to take appropriate action on MT | Hillman's death.
 Coming here from Tennessee in the
 early days of Birmingham, MT. Hillman
 had long been in the forefront of this
 districts material development.
 His influence and his energy had much
 to do with inducing the Tennessee com l pany to locate here.
 1 Mir. Hillman owned a residence in San
 Diego, Cal, and for several years he had
 been in the habit of spending a part of l the winter and part of the summer l there. These trips always proved bene- 1 ficial to his health. Last winter, however
 pressing business engagements in Bir- 1 mingham caused him to forego his visit l to California