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in the importation of chemicals, in which business 

 he amassed a large fortune. He was a man of the 

 strictest integrity, scrupulously exact in all his busi- 

 ness dealings and of unusual business capacity. 



Mr. Hill became a member of the Society in 1856, 

 was elected on the Charitable Committee in 1862-8, 

 on the Executive Committee 1869, and again in 

 1877-8, was Vice-President 1874-5 and 6, 1 880-1 

 and 1882; President in 1883-4, and Treasurer in 

 1885-6, thus serving the Society for twenty years 

 in one capacity or another. 



He was of a generous and impulsive nature, in- 

 defatigable in his efforts in promoting the usefulness 

 of the Society and liberal in his contributions to its 

 funds. During the time he was President he took 

 and furnished an office at his own expense for the 

 use of the Society, charging it only a small part of 

 the rental, and as a crowning effort of his useful life 

 contributed a sum of $5,000 to its Permanent Fund. 

 He was a member of the Vestry of the Church of 

 St. George the Martyr, and as a representative of 

 that church was a member of the Board of Mana- 

 gers of St. Luke's Hospital. He died August 8th, 

 1886, leaving three sons and two daughters, two of 

 the former being members of this Society. 



The members at large can judge best of his lib- 

 eral nature by his munificent contributions ; but it 

 is left to his associate officers to testify to his ster- 

 ling worth, and in their almost daily intercourse with 



