Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM HILL
WILLIAM HILL.--Born in the extreme north of Ireland, December 22, 1878, William Hill is the son of David and Rose (McMullan) Hill, the father a farmer of the Emerald Isle, where he lived his entire life and died at the age of eighty-three, his wife reaching the same age at her passing. One of ten children born to his parents, William received his education in the north of Ireland, and worked at farming there until the age of twenty-two, when a desire to seek the newer fields of opportunity made him undertake the long journey to the United States. After his arrival he worked for about five years at the Latrobe, Pa., machine works.
In 1905, Mr. Hill came West and located in Sacramento, and engaged in the real estate and insurance business, remaining here for about thirteen years. He then went to Hood, on the Sacramento River, and worked in the grocery store there for several years. Since locating at Courtland, some four or five years ago, he has been engaged in general trucking business, using two trucks, one with a ton and a half capacity and the other two tons, and he does both local and long-distance hauling, and is known in his locality as a reliable man to engage for his line of work.
The marriage of Mr. Hill, which occurred at Sacramento, November 28, 1906, united him with Ella McDonald, born at Waterloo, Iowa, a daughter of James and Jessie (Smith) McDonald, the father a native of Edinburgh and the mother of Glasgow, Scotland; about 1872 Mr. McDonald came to Iowa and there the marriage occurred, five children being born to them. The father was a blacksmith by trade and at Waterloo followed this trade; then, when Mrs. Hill was three years of age, the family came to Sacramento, Cal., where he did blacksmithing for the Southern Pacific Railway in their shops for twenty-seven years, retiring with a pension. His death occurred December 7, 1922, aged seventy-eight years; the mother died aged fifty-eight. Mrs. Hill attended the Sacramento City schools and received all of her rearing in the capital city. Two children have been born to Mr. And Mrs. Hill, Janice and Lillian. In politics, Mr. Hill is a Republican; fraternally he is a member of the Courtland lodge of Masons, and of the Sacramento lodge of Odd Fellows; both he and his wife belong to the Eastern Star, and until recently were members of the Rebekah lodge of Sacramento. They both are interested in the bettering of their community in every way, in advancing its educational facilities and in doing their share toward this end.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 910.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.