Hill, Edward (1843-1923)

Name:

Hill, Edward (1843-1923)

Born:

12/09/1843

Birthplace:

Wolverhampton, England

Died:

08/27/1923

Death Location:

Hood River, OR

Residence:

Immigrated with family to America in 1844
Massachusetts 1860
San Francisco, CA 1862
Boston, MA 1864-1865
Littleton and Lancaster, NH 1870-1880
Melrose, MA 1881-1888
Concord and Nashua, NH -- had studios, 1893-1899
New Boston, NH 1900
Denver, CO 1902, 1903
Salt Lake City, UT 1904, 1906, 1907
Hood River, OR 1911, 1921-1923
Portland, OR 1917
Seattle, WA 1915, 1918
Los Angles, CA 1918-1921
Seaside, OR 1921

Moved West permanently in 1906

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Furniture Decorator - 1860, Gardner, MA
Landscape Painter - by 1860s through end of life

Father:

Hill, Thomas

Mother:

Hunt, Maria E.

Relations:

Younger brother of artists Thomas Hill (1829-1908) and Robert Hill (b.1837).

Spouse:

(1) Sarah Lorla Brown, December 7, 1869
(2) Mary E. Wheeler, 1899

Children:

Ralph Waldo Hill (1871-1951)
George Wilder Hill (1873-1940)
Thomas Allen Hill (1880-1969)

Notes:

1985.51.4 -Daguerreotype of Edward Hill Drawer #10, Daguerreotypes, NHHS Library

Edward Hill: A Man of His Time (1843-1923). (Plymouth, New Hampshire: Plymouth State College, 1985).

Robert L. McGrath, "New Hampshire Observed: The Art of Edward Hill," Historical New Hampshire, 44(Spring/Summer 1989)1&2, 30-95.

Charles Vogel, "Edward Hill (1843-1923), Artist," Historical New Hampshire, 44(Spring/Summer 1989)1&2, 4-24.

Charles Vogel, "Edward Hill Chronology," Historical New Hampshire, 44(Spring/Summer 1989)1&2, 25-29.