North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Daniel Harvey Hill PR( ►FESSOR Daniel Harvey Hill. A. M., occupies the Chair of English in the faculty of cur college, having been elected to this position at the foundation of the college in [889. Professor Hill is a universal favorite in the college, having endeared himself to the students not only by fine scholar- ship and teaching power but also by manly, attractive, gentle and sympathetic personality. He is every inch a man. and combines in high degree the splendid qualities of his distinguished ancestors. His father was General I). H. Hill, a graduate of West Point, an officer in the Mexican War, twice promoted for gallantry. Colonel of the 1st. X. C Regi- ment, Confederate Army, rising by successive promotions for gallantry and efficiency to the high rank of Lieutenant General. He was also Professor of Mathematics at Washington ami Lee College and later at Davidson College, Superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute at Charlotte, am ' at the time of his death. President of the University of Arkansas. General Hill was a man of letters, author of several books, founder and editor of The Land We Love, one of the few successful magazines ever conducted in the South. The Hills have for many generations been brave soldiers and finished scholars. Solomon Hill, a North Carolina planter, served in the War of 1812. Colonel William Hill, during the Revolution, was second in command of Sumpter ' s Legion. They were ancestors of Professor Hill. It is a very old family; refined, cultured, brave and faithful to duty. Professor Hill ' s maternal relatives are even more distinguished than the paternal. His mother was Isabella Morrison, daughter of Rev. Dr. R. H. Mor- rison, founder and first President of Davidson College. Dr. Morrison ' s three oldest sons were officers in the Confederate Army, and nearly all his daughters married officers. The eldest married General D. H. Hill : the third, General Stonewall Jackson; the fourth. General Rufus Barringer; the fifth. Major A. C. Avery : the youngest, Col. J. E. Brown. Professor Hill ' s grandmother was Mary Graham, ' laughter of General Joseph Graham!, of the Revolution, and ;ister of Hon. William A. Graham, Ciovernor of North Carolina. United States Senator and Secretary of the Navy under Jas. K. Polk. During Graham ' s administra- tion of the Navy and by means of his wise and farsighted statesmanship the leading seaports of Japan were opened to the commerce of the world, and thus a beginning was made of Japanese regeneration ami civilization, probably the