. Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. heSalt Lake Tabernacle choir and organhave been broadcast from coast tocoast once each week upwards of sevenyears. HILL, Geo. R., second assistant inthe general superintendency of the S. Sunday schools, was born April10, 1884, at Ogden, Utah, a son ofGeorge Richard Hill and ElizabethNancy Burch. His grandparents onboth sides were pioneers of Utah andsettled in Ogden in 1848. In 1889 R. Hill located on a farm atSpringv
. Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. heSalt Lake Tabernacle choir and organhave been broadcast from coast tocoast once each week upwards of sevenyears. HILL, Geo. R., second assistant inthe general superintendency of the S. Sunday schools, was born April10, 1884, at Ogden, Utah, a son ofGeorge Richard Hill and ElizabethNancy Burch. His grandparents onboth sides were pioneers of Utah andsettled in Ogden in 1848. In 1889 R. Hill located on a farm atSpringville, Utah, where his son, , jun., attended the public schoolsuntil his graduation in 1900. He grad-uated from the high school of the Brig-ham Young University at Provo in1904, received the degree of B. S. fromthat university in 1907, obtained thedegree of B. S. A. from the Utah Agri-cultural College in 1908 and that ofPh. D. at Cornell University in 1912. 214 LATTER-DAY SAINT Bro. Hill was baptized when abouteig:ht years old and after serving inoffices of the Aaronic Priesthood wasordained an Elder, and later a Sev-enty to become a member of the 220th. Quorum of Seventy. He served as anofficer and teacher in the Y. M. M. and as a member of the generalboard of that organization from 1926to 1935. In Sunday school work heacted as chorister and also as a teach-er in the Springville 3rd and Logan5th wards, as Sunday school superin-tendent in the Logan 5th ward, asmember of the Sunday school boardsof the Salt Lake and Cache stakes, asmember of the general board of theDeseret Sunday School Union from1925, devoting much time to the prep-aration of lesson outlines, and in 1934was set apart as a member of the gen-eral superintendency of the L. D. schools. As an agriculturalist, Bro. Hills ac-tivities have been of great value to hisnative state. As a youth he engagedin farming, was instructor of agricul-ture and science in the L. D. S. HighSchool in 1907-1908,instruct
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