Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - M. W. Hill
M. W. HILL
M. W. Hill, of Richwood, was born in Knox County, Ohio, December 24,
1843, and is a son of Nathaniel Birt and Mary (Roberts) Hill, natives
of New Jersey. His father died in 1852, and his mother died one
month later, leaving our subject alone in the world, at the age of nine
years. During the next four years, he lived at several different
places, and when thirteen years of age he began learning the printer's
trade, which he only followed for a short time. He then commenced
working on a farm at $6 per month, which was afterward raised to $9,
and continued working as a hand four years. In 1861, he met with
an accident, by having his hand badly injured in a clover huller, that
almost resulted in the loss of his right arm. During the years of
1862 and 1863, he went to school, and having. obtained a certificate,
began teaching. One year later he went to Iowa and engaged in
farming and trading, and in 1864 returned to Union County. In
1867, he came to Richwood, and since then has been variously engaged in
business. He is in very comfortable circumstances, owns 460 acres
of land, eighty of it in the corporation, several houses and lots in
the village, a butcher shop and grocery, a half-interest in a furniture
store, and a half-interest in a store at Green Bond, Ohio. He and
his partner, Mr. Lenox, are the most extensive dealers in and shippers
of stock in this part of the country. They are importers of
French horses and have made two trips across the water for that
purpose. Mr. Hill is a Democrat in politics and is now serving
his second term as Justice of the Peace. He is a member of the
Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 443, and, as is his wife, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1865, he married Margaret A.
Fisher, daughter of Benjamin Fisher, and by her has four children,
viz.: Lizzie Belle, Wilbert C., Viola J. and Morris W.