When John Wesley Hill was born on 9 February 1872, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, his father, Henry Randolph Hill, was 28 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Richardson, was 29. He married Matilda E Gibbons on 17 July 1897, in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 1, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Green Hill, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States in 1930. He died on 16 June 1958, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 86.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, from Middle English hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll). Compare Hiller . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: possibly in some cases from the personal name Hille, a pet form of some name such as Hilger or Hillary .
German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names, male and female, containing ancient Germanic hild ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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