Ebenezer J. Hill | |
Birth Date: | 4 August 1845 |
Birth Place: | Redding, Connecticut |
Death Place: | Norwalk, Connecticut |
Restingplace: | Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut |
Residence: | Norwalk, Connecticut |
State: | Connecticut |
District: | 4th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1915 |
Term End: | September 27, 1917 |
Predecessor: | Jeremiah Donovan |
Successor: | Schuyler Merritt |
Term Start2: | March 4, 1895 |
Term End2: | March 3, 1913 |
Predecessor2: | Robert E. De Forest |
Successor2: | Jeremiah Donovan |
State Senate3: | Connecticut |
District3: | 13th |
Term Start3: | 1886 |
Term End3: | 1887 |
Predecessor3: | Asa Smith |
Successor3: | Lyman S. Catlin |
Term Start4: | 1866 |
Term End4: | 1867 |
Predecessor4: | Chester Tolles, F. St. John Lockwood |
Successor4: | Asa Woodward, D. H. Webb |
Term Start5: | 1862 |
Term End5: | 1863 |
Predecessor5: | Josiah Carter, Peter L. Cunningham |
Successor5: | William C. Street, Joseph H Cummings |
Term Start6: | 1851 |
Term End6: | 1854 |
Predecessor6: | Clark Bissell, Algernon Beard |
Party: | Republican |
Alma Mater: | Center Academy Yale College |
Spouse: | Mary Ellen Mosman (1846–1918) |
Children: | Frederick Asbury Hill (1869–1907), Clara Mossman Hill (1874–1955), Helena Charlotte Hill Weed (1875–1958), Elsie Mary Hill (1883–1970) |
Occupation: | banker, businessman |
Battles: | Civil War |
Allegiance: | United States Union |
Branch: | Union Army |
Serviceyears: | 1863–1865 |
Ebenezer J. Hill (August 4, 1845 – September 27, 1917) was an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1895 to 1913 and from 1915 until his death in 1917. He had previously served as a member of the Connecticut Senate from 1886 to 1887.
He was born on August 4, 1845, in Redding, Connecticut, to Reverend Moses Hill and Charlotte Ilsley McLellan. He attended the public schools and then the Center Academy, and Yale College in 1865 and 1866. During the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army in 1863 and served until the close of the war.
Hill engaged in business and banking in Norwalk. He served as a Burgess of Norwalk. He served as chairman of the board of school visitors. Hill served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884. He served as member of the State senate in 1886 and 1887. He served one term on the Republican State central committee.
Hill was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1913).[1]
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-first Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1912 for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress.
Hill was elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Norwalk, Connecticut, September 27, 1917. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Norwalk, Connecticut.[2]