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Charles A. Hill
CHARLES A. HILL, farmer, P. O. Tionesta, was born in Chenango county, N.
Y., August 27, 1831, and is a son of Frederick and Eliza (Shaw) Hill, who
settled in Warren county, Penn., in 1848. Mr. Hill was reared and educated in
his native State, and located in Hickory township, this county, in 1849, where
he worked in the woods for two years. In 1851 he embarked in the lumber
business and also engaged in farming; with the exception of seven years he
lived in Wisconsin, he has made his home in Hickory township since 1849. He
was in the Civil war, enlisting August 11, 1862, in Company G, Eighty-third
Pennsylvania Regiment, and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville and the Wilderness (being wounded in the latter engagement),
and was honorably discharged on account of wounds, after two and one-half
years service. He married, in 1848, Mary J., daughter of William and Nancy
(Gates) Wolcott, of Hickory township, Forest Co., Penn., and they have seven
children: Nancy J. (Mrs. Peter Lindal), Ida (Mrs. James Butler), Perry C.,
Truman L., Arnold W., Nettie M. and Minnie J. Mr. Hill is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Tionesta, the A. O. U. W., P. O. S. of A. and G.
A. R. He has held several of the local offices in Hickory township, and has
served one term as associate judge of Forest county. Politically he is a
Republican, and a strong advocate of temperance.Source: Page(s) 945, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township and
Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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