no FOX HUNTING. 



from membership, and still others were placed 

 on the honorary list. The contribution member- 

 ship had ceased and was a thing of the past. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



GEORGE W. HILL, M. F. H. 



George W. Hill continued in the office of 

 Master of Hounds up to the time of his death on 

 March 30th, 1900, having faithfully performed the 

 duties of that position for twenty-six years. He 

 had a great fondness for horses and dogs, and was 

 an ardent fox hunter, and maintained for the 

 club one of the best packs of x^merican hounds in 

 the county or State, and Delaware County could 

 always boast of having some of the best packs of 

 American hounds in the country. Being a dealer 

 in horses, he furnished to lovers of the chase many 

 excellent cross-country horses. 



Mr. Hill was born in the old borough of 

 Chester in 1825, and was seventy-five years of age 

 at the time of his death. At an early age he w^ent 

 with his parents to reside at Rockdale, now Glen 

 Riddle, and lived there a number of years, his 

 father conducting mills and stores, recently owned 

 by Samuel Riddle. While there, at the age of 

 about sixteen years, he received his early train- 



