Robert M. B. Hill

"ROBERT M. B. HILL, farmer, P.O. Green Mount, was born in Liberty Township, Adams Co., Penn., May 5, 1822, a son of Martin and Jane (Johnston) Hill, also natives of Adams County, and of Scotch-Irish origin. Martin Hill was a farmer through life, and was the father of four children, of whom Robert M. B. is the youngest. Our subject was reared on his father’s farm, and received a common school education. In early manhood he went to McLean County, Ill., where for three years he was engaged in the butchering business, after which he returned to Pennsylvania, and located in Franklin County, and embarked in the dry goods trade. After remaining in the business one year he returned to Adams County, and engaged in the nursery business as traveling salesman, in which he remained two years, since when he has made farming his occupation. He owns the farm on which he now resides, and has himself accumulated the most of what he possesses. In 1875 he was married to Levina Hess, daughter of Jonathan Hess, a native of Fulton County, Penn.; she is of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Republican. "