. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. in the Worcester City Council and also on theSchool Committee. He invented and patented many improve-ments affecting the methods of annealing wire, and of galvanizingiron and steel wire or covering the wire with a uniform coating ofzinc as a protection against corrosion. These improvements wereof great value and yielded to the inventor a very considerablefinancial return in the form of royalties. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, and the CommonwealthClub and was a Thirty-second degree M
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. in the Worcester City Council and also on theSchool Committee. He invented and patented many improve-ments affecting the methods of annealing wire, and of galvanizingiron and steel wire or covering the wire with a uniform coating ofzinc as a protection against corrosion. These improvements wereof great value and yielded to the inventor a very considerablefinancial return in the form of royalties. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, and the CommonwealthClub and was a Thirty-second degree Mason and a Knights he was identified with the Republican party. Relig-iously he was an active member of the Plymouth CongregationalChurch of Worcester. Mr. Hill was very fond of traveling and madeit his chief recreation. June 26, 1865, he married Mary Ellen, daughter of Joseph andSally Whitcomb. Few men carried larger business responsibilities than Mr. Hilland few found more time for interests which concern the largerlife. His career is typical of that of thousands of young men who. -d^Wo M Mtl£6 EDWIN HUGHES HILL have made for themselves a place, and won recognition in the busi-ness world, not through any special talent or genius but by pains-taking, persistent, hard work. He always looked upon work as anopportunity rather than a drudgery. Through his taste for readinghe became an extremely well informed man on matters of religion,civics and business. As a citizen we have no better type to emulateand revere. His life, completed in the fulness of years, had all thequalities of good citizenship. He was a man of particularly gracious personality. He washighly respected for his unbending honesty, his faithful observanceof all public and private duties, and his devotion to home andchurch. His rise to remarkable success was due to his strict con-centration of his energies on the enterprises which he undertook;and he always attributed to the strenuous discipline
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