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| Eli Hill, farmer, sec. 29 Deerfield Tp., was born in Williams Co., Ohio Feb. 14, 1856. He is the son of Calvin C. and Louisa M. (Stanbrow) Hill, natives of New York, who went to Ohio and located in Steuben County where the father died. The mother on the occurrence of that event came to Hillsdale Co., Mich, and afterward to Van Buren County. In the fall of 1878 she took up her residence at Morley. Our subject acquired a good common school education in the educational institutions of Ohio and Michigan, and in 1879 came to Mecosta County and bought 80 acres of land in its primeval condition. For four years he rented and carried on a farm, but in the spring of ’83 occupied his own farm, of which he had cleared 20 acres. He was married Aug. 12, ’76, in Van Buren Co., Mich., to Agnes, daughter of George and Ann (Loverington) Grant. Their three children were born in the following order: Geo. C., Aug 9 ’78, Frederick E., March 12,’80, Alonzo L., Feb. 10, ’81. Mr. Hill is a Republican in political belief and practice. |