Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Judith Anne Weeks Ancell for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait And Biographical Album Of Mecosta County, Mich. Containing Portraits And Biographical Sketches of Prominent And Representative Citizens of the County together with Portraits And Biographies of All The Presidents Of The United States And Governors of the State. Also Containing A Complete History of The County, From Its Earliest Settlement To the Present Time. Chicago, Chapman Bros. 1883 =========================================================================== HILL, ELI =========================================================================== Page 262 Eli Hill, farmer, sec. 29 Deerfield Tp., was born in Williams Co., Ohio Feb. 14, 1856. He is a son of Calvin C. and Louisa M. (Stanbrow) Hill, natives of New York, who went to Ohio and located in Steuben County where the father died. The mother on the occurrence of that event came to Hillsdale Co., Mich., and afterward to Van Buren County. In the fall of 1878 she took up her residence at Morley. Our subject acquired a good common school education in the educational institutions of Ohio and Michigan, and in 1879 came to Mecosta County and bought 80 acres of land in its primeval condition. For four years he rented and carried on a farm, but in the spring of ’83 occupied his own farm, of which he had cleared 20 acres. He was married Aug. 12, ’76, in Van Buren Co., Mich., to Agnes, daughter of George and Ann (Loverington) Grant. Their three children were born in the following order: Geo. C., Aug 9 ’78; Frederick E., March 12,’80; Alonzo L., Feb. 10, ’81. Mr. Hill is a Republican in political belief and practice. ===========================================================================