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HILL. HILLMAN. 30/ Roxbury. After his graduation from the Roxbury high school, he made an early connection in business as a clerk in the publishing firm of Sanborn, Carter & Ba- zin, and continued with their successors, Brown, Taggard & Chase. At his major- ity he became a partner in a publishing and book concern, under the firm name of Chase, Nichols & Hill. Two years later he retired from the firm and continued a book and publishing business under his own name for a period of six years, until the spring of 1869. Mr. Hill was married in Boston, January 8, 1863, to Sarah E., daughter of William B. and Susan J. (Warren) May. They have had as children : Warren May, Har- old St. James, Marion, Clarence Harvey, WILLIAM H. HILL. Spencer Richardson, Ernest Lawrence, AVilliam Henry Reginald, Donald Mackay[ Barbara, Philip Sanford and Kenneth Amory Hill, of whom Harold, Barbara and Philip are deceased. Mr. Hill is at present a member of the firm of Richardson, Hill & Co., bankers, Boston. He is also president and general manager of the Boston & Bangor Steam- ship Company, and as president, director, or trustee is connected with, and interested in, many manufacturing, insurance, and transportation companies. Mr. Hill's career has been one of con- tinued growth and strength. It has been somewhat unusual in one regard : while the son of a prominent and wealthy merchant (one long known in the mercantile commun- ity of the city of Boston, especially among the older merchants, for his sagacity and integrity), yet he has by his own unaided efforts made his own fortune, and acquired a conspicuously honorable standing among the enterprising, successful, and" reliable men of affairs in the city of his birth. HILL, WILLIAM M., son of Alexander A. and Ruth (Millett) Hill, was born in Salem, Essex county, August 16, 1831. He received his early education in the public schools of Salem'. Upon leaving school he learned the cur- rier's trade, and continued in various de- partments of that trade for twenty years. In 1884 he commenced in the real estate and fire insurance business at Salem, which he now carries on. He was for several years a member of the state detective force, chief of police in Salem three years ; served in the common council four years, being president of that body three years ; member of the school committee four years ; was trustee of the Salem water loan sinking fund for four years, and mayor of the city of Salem for 1883 and '84. He was grand master of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Massachusetts, m which capacity he attended sessions of the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Denver, Col., in 1887, and at Los Angeles, Cal., in 1888. Mr. Hill was married at Salem to Annie M., daughter of Daniel B. and Nancy (Foote) Lord. He has one daughter': Annie Lord, wife of Edward F. Dalton of Salem. HILLMAN, BERIAH T., son of Owen and Charlotte Hillman, was born in Chil- mark, Dukes county, January 28, 1843. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of nineteen entered the normal school, Bridgewater, where he remained one term, then enlisted in company K, 43d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, which took part in the campaign under General Foster in North Carolina during the winter of 1862-63, and the following spring. The term of service of the regi- ment had expired and it had reached Bal- timore on its way home while the battle of Gettysburg was being fought. He then volunteered to go to the front, where he