Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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n in 1779-80, andlater were proteges of Baron Steuben. Both were at Yorktown,and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. The elder, Nicho-las, was a sergeant when he was discharged in June, 1783, hisdischarge papers being signed by Washington himself. Hethen settled at Florida, Montgomery County, New York, andwas for forty years a Methodist preacher. He was four timesmarried. His fourth wife was Sarah Hegeman, whose fatherwas Adrian Hegeman, and whose mothers maiden name wasPalmer —the one of Dutch, the other of English stock. Shebore to the Rev. Nicholas Hill in his old age — he was then sev-enty-four years old — a son who is the subject of this sketch.Another son, by his first wife, born thirty-five years before, wasNicholas Hill, Jr., who was one of the leading lawyers of histime in New York State. John Lindsay Hill was born at Florida, New York, on Octo-ber 31, 1840, and spent his childhood on his fathers farm. Hewent to school and learned the printers trade at Amsterdam, 156
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JOHN LINDSAY HILL 157 New York, was prepared for college at Jonesville Academy,Saratoga County, and went to Union College, where he wasgraduated in the class of 1861, the last class sent out by the ven-erable Eliphalet Nott. For a year afterward he taught schoolat Waterford, and then was admitted to the bar and began topractise law, for which he had prepared himself by vacationstudy. He opened an office at Schenectady, New York, in part-nership with S. H. Johnson, and in 1864 was elected DistrictAttorney of Schenectady County. During his term of office hewas also counsel for the State Canal Commissioners. Mr. Hill came to New York in July, 1868, and has ever sincebeen in practice here, making his home in Brooklyn. He wasfirst associated with G. R. and T. D. Pelton, and then for ashort time with Henry L. Clinton. In 1873 he became a mem-ber of the firm of Barrett, Redfield & Hill, which later becameRedfield & Hill, and then Redfield, HiU & Lydecker. FromJanuary, 1884, to Ma

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