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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
Abstract | 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 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, Carnes, Young, and other families, and to family members including Lucius D. Hill III, physician of Seattle, Wash.; William Davis Carnes, University of Tennessee president, 1858-1860; and Franklin Carlton Spears, Texas Supreme Court justice. |
Creator | Hill, Lucius D., 1889-1984. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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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.
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopMaterial includes primarily letters from Lucius D. Hill Jr. to various family members regarding his college career at Sewanee and Vanderbilt Medical School, his job experiences in Alabama (1909-1910) and Kansas City, Mo. (1912), his medical residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City in 1915 and 1917, and his service as an Army physician during the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916 and during World War I in France from 1918 to 1919.
Folder 1 |
Correspondence, 1906-1908 |
Folder 2 |
Correspondence, 1909-1913 |
Folder 3 |
Correspondence, 1914-1915 |
Folder 4 |
Correspondence, 1916-1917 |
Folder 5 |
Correspondence, 1917-1937 |
Folder 6 |
Photocopies of selected correspondence, 1908-1918 |
Folder 7 |
Other materialsFamily photographs, clippings, certificates, and a wallet containing photographs carried by Hill in France during World War I. |
Scrapbook pages include photographs, clippings, certificates, awards, and other items related to the life of Lucius D. Hill Jr. Also included are annotations describing the photographs and other items.
Folder 8-11
Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11 |
Scrapbook pages, 1894-1984 |
Includes family histories, memoirs, family trees, clippings, photographs, certificates, photocopies of correspondence, and other materials pertaining to the Hill family, originally of Sparta, Tenn., and related families.
Folder 12 |
William Jasper HillWilliam Jasper Hill of Sparta, Tenn., was the grandfather of Lucius D. Hill Jr. and a lawyer and Confederate soldier. He died of typhoid fever during the Civil War. Materials include transcribed correspondence between Hill and his wife Mary (Carnes) Hill (1853-1884), and other biographical information on Hill. |
Folder 13 |
Bettie Young and Lucius D. Hill Sr.Includes photographs of Lucius D. Hill Sr., photocopies of wedding certificates and excerpts from a family bible, an original 3 December 1913 letter from Hill to his daughter, a 1933 cartoon of Hill, and other biographical information. |
Folder 14 |
Lucius D. Hill IIILucius D. Hill III was a prominent surgeon in Seattle, Wash., specializing in esophogeal surgery. Material includes clippings, photocopies of correspondence, awards, obituaries, and medical information related to Hill and his work. Most material dates from the 1960s to the 1980s. |
Folder 15 |
Joe Hill family: "A Family History"A family history compiled in 1966 including a typewritten memoir by Joe Meredith Hill. |
Folder 16 |
Hill family lineagesVarious family trees and genealogical charts of the Hill family. |
Folder 17 |
Hill family: MiscellanyIncludes a book titled, "Mountain Coal; Black Gold: A Visual Journey through the Coal Fields of Bon Air, Ravenscroft, Clifty, and Eastland, Tennessee." |
Folder 18 |
Paul Hill: "As I Remember It" |
Folder 19 |
Young family lineage |
Folder 20 |
William Davis CarnesWilliam Davis Carnes was the great-grandfather of Lucius D. Hill Jr. and the seventh president of the University of Tennessee (1858-1860). Material includes a memoir of Carnes published by Joseph Malcolm Carnes in 1926 that includes photographs of family members and a genealogy of the Carnes family. Also included is a photocopy of an 1861 letter from W. D. Carnes to his daughter. |
Folder 21 |
Franklin Carleton Spears (1931-1996)Franklin Carleton Spears was the great-grandson of Lucius D. Hill Sr.. and a justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. Material includes primarily clippings and other biographical information about Spears. |