Ebenezer J. Hill Explained

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.

Early life

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.

Political career

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]

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  1. Web site: S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 . GovInfo.gov . U.S. Government Printing Office . 2 July 2023 . 12–13 . 9 November 1903.
  2. Book: Spencer . Thomas E. . Where They're Buried . 1998 . Clearfield Company, Inc. . Baltimore, Maryland . 0-8063-4823-2 . 158 . July 18, 2020.