Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lucius D. Hill Papers #5284, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Eleanor Hill Lamb of Chapel Hill, N.C., in July 2006 (Acc. 100453)

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Noah Huffman, September 2006

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, September 2006

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Bellevue Hospital.
• Carnes family.
• Carnes, William Davis, 1805-1879.
• Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Family--Texas--Social life and customs.
• Hill family.
• Hill, Lucius D.
• Hill, Lucius D., 1889-1984.
• Hill, William Jasper, d. 1862.
• Judges--Texas--History.
• Physicians--Alabama--History--20th century.
• Physicians--Missouri--History--20th century.
• Physicians--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
• Physicians--Texas--History--20th century.
• Physicians--Washington (State)--History.
• San Antonio (Tex.)--History.
• San Antonio (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
• Scrapbooks.
• Sparta (Tenn.)--History.
• Sparta (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Spears, Franklin Carlton.
• United States. Army--History--Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916.
• United States. Army--Medical care.
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
• United States. Army. Machine Gun Battalion, 113th.
• United States. Army. Medical Corps.
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville--History.
• University of the South--History.
• Vanderbilt University. School of Medicine--History.
• World War, 1914-1918--France.
• World War, 1914-1918--Medical care.
• Young family.

Lucius D. Hill Jr. was born in Sparta, Tenn., in 1889. His father, Lucius D. Hill Sr. was a speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and his grandfather, William Jasper Hill, was a lawyer and Confederate Army officer. After briefly attending the medical college at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., in 1906, and graduating from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1914, Hill was a medical resident at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. In 1916, he served as an Army physician during the Punitive Expedition into Mexico with General John J. Pershing. From 1918 to 1920, he served in the 113th Machine Gun Battalion of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, also as a physician. After returning to Bellevue Hospital and completing his residency, Hill moved to San Antonio, Tex., to practice medicine and was a founding member of the Texas Pediatric Society. He continued his medical practice until 1969 when he retired at age 80. He died on 4 June 1984 at age 95. Hill's first wife was Charlotte Mohr Hill, and together they had four children. His second wife was Dorothy Duerler Hill, and together they had one child.

The Lucius D. Hill Jr. collection consists primarily of original correspondence and scrapbook pages documenting Hill's college career at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and Vanderbilt Medical School; his early employment in Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City, Mo.; his service as an Army physician during the Punitive Expedition into Mexico in 1916 and later in France during World War I; and his medical residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. There are also genealogical materials pertaining to the Hill family, originally of Sparta, Tenn., and other family members including William Davis Carnes and Franklin Carleton Spears.