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David Bennett Hill of Elmira, NY, was elected Governor of New York and served 1885-1891. He was elected to the United States Senate and served 1892-1897. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination of President in 1892 but lost to Grover Cleveland. (see United States Senate)
Isaac Hill was born 1788 at Cambridge, MA. At age fourteen (1802), he was apprenticed to Joseph Cushing, owner and publisher of the Amherst Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire, newspaper, to learn the newspaper trade. In 1809 Hill moved to Concord (NH), where he purchased the American Patriot newspaper. Hill renamed the newspaper the New Hampshire Patriot, and made it for twenty years the dominant state Democratic Party organ. He sold the newspaper in 1829.
At Concord, Isaac was drawn into state politics. He was elected Clerk of the House, serving 1819-1825. Isaac was elected a State Senator, serving 1820-1823 and again from 1827-1828.
Isaac was a strong Jacksonian Democrat, supporting President Andrew Jackson. He served as a member of the Jackson "Kitchen Cabinet" in the 1828 presidential campaign and after. Jackson named Isaac as the second United States Comptroller of the Treasury early in his presidency and he served during 1829--1830 without Senate confirmation. When the Senate refused to confirm Isaac because of his politics, the State of New Hampshire's Democrats elected him to the U. S. Senate, in the 1830 senatorial election. Isaac went to Washington in 1831; he resigned in 1835 to campaign for the gubernatorial spot in New Hampshire. He was elected and governed for three successive terms 1836 - 1839. He then served in the Sub-Treasury at Boston 1840 - 1841 and turned his attention to running The Farmer's Monthly Visitor, a journal he had owned since 1835. He ran the newspaper until his death in 1851.
John Freemont Hill was born 29 Oct 1855, a son of William Hill and Miriam Leighton. He lived in Augusta, Maine. He was elected as a Republican candidate to be Governor of Maine in and served 1901-1905. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908 and served on the Republican National Committee from Maine the same year. He served as Chairman of the Committee 1910-1912. He died 16 Mar 1912.
Stephen John Hill was born 10 Jun 1809, possibly in the West Indies. His career in the British Army began in 1823 when he joined the reserves. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1828, and captain in 1842. He served in Africa, becoming governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1851 and of Sierra Leone in 1854. In 1863, he was appointed governor of the Leeward Islands and Antigua. In 1869, he became governor of Newfoundland.
Stephen supported confederation with Canada and was disappointed when the election of 1869 gave the anti-confederates the majority in the provincial assembly. He pushed the limits of his position when he suggested that confederation be imposed on Newfoundland. The colonial office refused to interfere.
A genial and popular governor, Stephen retired to London in 1876 and died there in 1891.
William Hill was appointed by Cecil Calvert (Lord Baltimore) in 1634 as Deputy Governor of the Ferryland settlement (now part of Newfoundland, Canada). Although Cecil had been looking after the colony since his father left to obtain land in Maryland, the position of governor appears to have been vacant since 1629. Nothing is known of his life before this time and little is known about his experiences in Newfoundland, except that he once lived in the house constructed by Lord Baltimore himself. The population of Ferryland was about 100 in 1629 but it is likely that numbers were greatly reduced by the time William took on his duties in 1634. William remained in Lord Baltimore's mansion until David Kirke arrived in 1638. He was then forced to move to the north side of the harbour and would remain there until he died.
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