Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1906-07-05


practice. He was conscientious in his
professional work, careful as to details
and successful in practice.
He was charter member of the
County Association, in which he took
considerable interest, ever supporting
| the idea of professional organization as
a means of advancement to the physi-
clan in his work, in the influence to be
exerted upon the public and in the
pecuniary interests involved. He at
tended every meeting of the State
Society from the date of his entering
until his death, and was the chairman
of Section on Practice in 1904.
To know Dr. Aaron was to like him.
There was a personal magnetism or
something attractive about him that
made him universal favorite. This
was pronounced in his whole life, as
boy, man and physician. Large of
frame, his heart was equally large,
and as warm and true to his friends as
it was large He was whole-souled and
broad-minded, generous to fault and
ever faithful in all his dealings.
Dr. Thos. Hill was born in Sampson
county, North Carolina, on the 26th of
Oct, 1882 He died Feb. 18, 1906.
After leaving the University of North
Carolina in his Junior year, he read
medicine in Wilmington with DR.. James
F. McBee and attended the lectures In
New York, graduating at the Univer-
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| in Salisbury, N. c., for the practice of
his profession, where he married Miss
Mary C. .McConnaughey, who survives
him. He afterwards removed to Smith
vile (now Southport), where he prac-
ticed until the breaking out of the war.
On July 21st, 1861, he was commits
stoned Assistant Surgeon of the Con-
federate States Army and was placed
in charge of the general hospital at
| Fredericksburg, Va. In March, 1862,
he was placed in charge of the generel
hospital at Goldsboro, N. G. On May
| IL, 1862, he was commissioned Surgeon
Confederate States Army and placed
in charge of general hospital No. s,
peace Institute, Raleigh)- In March,
| 1864, he was ordered to the 4th Regi
ment, North Carolina State Troops,
stationed on Bald Head Island at the
| December, 1864, he was appointed chief
surgeon North Carolina Reserves on
/ the staff of Gen. T. H. Holmes, which
! position he was holding at the time of
the surrender in 1865. After the war
he settled in Kenansville, N. c., prac-
he moved to Danville, Missouri, where
he practiced his profession several
! years. He moved to Goldsboro in 1880,
practicing his profession until his
death, Feb. 18, 1906. He was elected
/; several terms Coroner of Wayne
county, which office he held at the
! time of his death.
/ Dr. Hill was member of the State
i Medical Society, having joined in 1880,
! and was one of the Vice-Presidents in
1893. He went into the organization
of the County Association, but not ap-
proving of the plan as adopted for the
general organization of State and
county societies, he withdrew, refusing
to have anything whatever to do with
it. While we may not endorse his
! judgement, we cannot but admire his
| courage in the position he took in the
matter. This, though, was character
istic of the man; he dared to follow his
convictions regardless of policy or pub
lie opinion; it was the load-stone of his
life, his guiding star. To know his
duty was to do it. He was a man with
out guile, of positive opinions and indie
pendent views.
j In practice DIR. Hill could well be
considered we'll equipped, alround
family physician, doing as he did a
general practice. He was impatient
of all fads and innovations as such,
wanting to be well assured that any
measure introduced into the practice. of
medicine was founded upon merit rather
than novelty. He believed in the
powers of medicine and was especially
interested in the native herbs and their
medicinal qualities, many of which he
!, specially studied. He left quite col
lection of the wild medicinal plants OF
the Eastern part of the State.
Of the first three, two lived the al
loted time of three score years and ter
years full of trials and difficulties,
full of labors and tolls, full Of sacrifices
for others and meriting the respect OF
the community, which was so freely
given. The other was cut off in the
prime and vigor of manhood, with
seemingly useful career before him
They had their faults, who of us
haven't? Let US forget their short
comings and draw lessons from theil
many virtues, which we may emulate
Neither of the three was brilliant il
medicine in the general acceptation o1
the word. They were plodders, safe
: advisers, steady in purpose, doing theil
: several duties day by day as they saw
: them, careful in their daily life to bring
| no reproach upon the profession ano
} exemplary as men and citizens.
: Their work and the good they have
: accomplished will remain as swee1
: SAVIOR with Wayne county's people un
: til after the present generation ha.
; passed away. To be as conscientiou.
l as Hill, as genial as Miller and al
Uanerol1s aS Aaron ara attributes n