Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . FRANK HILL, politics he is a Republican with independenttendencies. He married, October 6, 1885, MissEmma Greene, daughter of M. J. Greene, of Alfred,N. Y. ; they have three children : F>elyn Irene, MaryHulda and Frank Maxsom Hill. 3« MEN OF PROGRESS. HILL, Lester Seneca, physician and surgeon,was born in Foster, R. L, December 19, 1843, son ofJirah and Aniey Whipple (Ormsbee) Hill. He re-ceived his early education in the district school
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . FRANK HILL, politics he is a Republican with independenttendencies. He married, October 6, 1885, MissEmma Greene, daughter of M. J. Greene, of Alfred,N. Y. ; they have three children : F>elyn Irene, MaryHulda and Frank Maxsom Hill. 3« MEN OF PROGRESS. HILL, Lester Seneca, physician and surgeon,was born in Foster, R. L, December 19, 1843, son ofJirah and Aniey Whipple (Ormsbee) Hill. He re-ceived his early education in the district schools andhis physical training on the paternal farm, where. L. S. HILL. the trees grew big and the rocks grew the civil war he enlisted, September 1861, atthe age of seventeen, in Battery E, First RhodeIsland Light Artillery, and served in First Division,Third Corps, Army of the Potomac, till December1863, when he was appointed Second LieutenantCompany F, Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Ar-tillery, serving with this regiment in the Departmentof the Gulf until October 1865. He was at the siegeof Yorktown, the battle of Williamsburg, the SevenDays battles before Richmond, White Oak Swamp,Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Freder-icksburg and Gettysburg. On the completion ofhis term of service he resumed his studies and grad-uated from Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass.,in 1870. He entered the Medical College of theUniversity of the City of New York, and graduatedin 1872 with the degree of M. D. He then com-menced the practice of medicine in Providence,where he has remained since. He has been a mem-ber of the School Committee o
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