Biographical Sketch of

H. D. Hill

Transcribed by Sandra Boudrou for the Marquette Co WI Pages


Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Pages 635 - 636


H. D. Hill, M. D. of Westfield, is one of the leading citizens of Marquette County, and has been engaged 
in practice at his present place of abode since the 1st of November, 1881.  The village of Westfield has 
been the residence of several physicians of note among whom may be mentioned Dr. Erastus P. Buck, who settled 
in that place in the fall of 1855.  He was a man of much general information as well as a learned and 
successful doctor.  Previous to the War of the Rebellion he served a term in the Legislature, and at the 
breaking out of that struggle entered the army as a surgeon.  On his return to the North, at the close of 
the war, he settled in Platterville, where he is now living.  Dr. S. H. Duley succeeded Dr. Buck, and was 
for a time associated with Dr. Stewart, who came soon afterward.  Dr. Jenkins and a few others have ministered 
to the wants of the sick and afflicted of Westfield at different times during her history, and Dr. Hill has 
attained to a like prominent position with some of the foregoing ones.  He was born in McHenry County, Ill., 
in 1855, and is a son of the Rev. W. P. Hill, a well-known minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who was 
a member of the West Wisconsin Conference for seventeen years and belonged to the Rock River Conference many 
years.  Finally, when he was so far superanuated as to be unable to take charge of a circuit, he filled 
appointments for a number of years as a supply, in which capacity he had charge of the church in Westfield 
from 1880 until 1883.  His wife, the mother of the Doctor, died in Westfield in April, 1888, but the Rev. Mr. 
Hill is living and makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Clark of Logansport, Ind.  Their family numbered 
only three children:  Dr. Hill; Adda, wife of Leonard Westerman, and Helen A., wife of Charles Clark of 
Logansport.
 
Our subject passed his boyhood days in the various places where his father was called to take charge of a church.  
He attended the common schools for sometime and was afterward a student in the Platteville Normal School, and 
subsequently attended the high school of Pecatonica, Ill., for several years.  When his literary education was 
completed, he engaged in business in the city of Chicago for some time, but at the age of twenty years began the 
study of medicine in La Salle, Ind., under the direction of Drs. Corbus and Gillette, with whom he remained one 
year.  He then went to Dundee, Ill., and entered the office of Dr. E. F. Cleveland, a physician and druggist of 
that place, but completed his studies in the Rush Medical College of Chicago, Feb 24, 1880.  After his graduation 
the Doctor located in Algonquin, Ill., where he prosecuted his profession until coming to Westfield, in 1881.  
Two years later he opened a drug store, which he carries on in connection with his professional duties.  The 
Doctor is a gentleman of culture and is highly popular both as a physician and citizen.  He acquired an excellent 
knowledge of his profession, and although still a young man has become a prominent physician of Marquette County, 
and has a practice of which he may well be proud.
 
On the 10th of December, 1888, Dr. Hill was united in marriage with Miss Dora E. Fenner, daughter of John Fenner, 
who like her husband, holds a high position in the social world and is greatly esteemed by her many friends.






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