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

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most remarkable and far-reaching event in Asiatic history within the past two centuries. Professor D. H. Hill was born at Davidson College. X. C. January istn, 1859; was educated at the Carolina Military Institute, Horner and Graves ' School and Davidson College, graduating in 1880, as Bachelor of Arts. In 1886 he received the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1905 that of Doctor of Letters. The vear of his graduation he was elected Professor of English in the Georgia Military and Agricultural College, holding this position until he was elected to his present Chair in the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. In 1905 he was chosen Vice President of this college. Professor Hill is a member of the Southern Historical Society ' ; Registrar of the Sons of the Revolution ; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina State Historical Society ; Bibliographer of that Society since its organi- zation ; member of the State Historical Commission and of the Sons of Confederate Veterans; ex -member of tne Executive Committee of the Southern Educational Association. He is the author of North Carolina Troops in the Confederate Army. being one of twelve volumes of Confederate Military History, and a joint author with Drs. Burkett and Stevens of Agriculture for Beginners, besides being the author of many historical and magazine articles. Professor Hill is married to Miss Pauline White, daughter of Dr. S. G. White, Surgeon United States Navy, formerly in the Confederate Army. They are blessed with a beautiful home life, having five bright, healthy and attractive children.

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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

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