MEMORIAL OF FRANK A. HILL 69 



vania. A short time after assuming charge of the furnaces and mines 

 of this company there occurred the disastrous fire at the Hill Farm mine, 

 resulting in the death of thirty-one employees. Mr. HilFs conduct amidst 

 the fire and stifling smoke, hundreds of feet below the surface, in attempt- 

 ing to rescue these men alive, was heroic and called forth the greatest 

 admiration not only from the Government inspectors, but from the officials 

 of the labor organizations and the relatives of the entombed men as well. 

 Resigning his position at Dunbar in 1893, he was elected Vice-President 

 and General Manager of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company. 

 With this company he remained until 1895, when he resigned to accept 

 the office of general manager of the Hull Coal and Coke Company, with 

 headquarters in Roanoke, A-^irginia. With this corporation he remained 

 until 1908, resigning to become resident director of the mining interests 

 of Madeira, Hill & Company, establishing his headquarters in Pottsville. 

 It was this position he held at the time of his death. 



In October, 1893, Mr. Hill was united in marriage with Alice Marie 

 Muller, of Joliet, Illinois. To this union were born three children — 

 Frank, Marie, and Alexandrine — who, with his widow and sister, survive 

 him. 



As our old chief, Lesley, wrote of Whelpley and Henderson, so I can 

 write of Frank A. Hill, for he was indeed "a man of infinite scope and 

 love in science, poet by divine right, pure hearted and true to every duty 

 to whom as master in youth and friend in middle age the writer has owed 

 what it would be presumption to attempt in words. ^^ 



To those who knew him best the name of Frank A. Hill was synony- 

 mous with all that is best, purest, and noblest in American manhood. 

 Wherever he went he made friends, and as the acquaintanceships length- 

 ened their admiration for him increased. I doubt if he had an enemy 

 in the world. For thirty-five years we were intimate friends, and I can 

 conscientiously say that I believe he was incapable of doing anything that 

 was not honorable. He made the world better for having lived in it. 



''J'lie funeral services, held at his late residence on Friday afternoon, 

 July 16, 1915, were attended by prominent coal men from all parts of 

 the eastern United States. Interment was in a plot recently selected by 

 himself in the Chailes Baber Cemetery, at Pottsville. 



Bibliography 



Notes on tlie Mehoopany coal field. Annual Report of the Pennsylvania State 



Survey, 1885. 

 Description of the Wyoming buried valley. Annual Report of the Pennsylvania 



State Survey, 1885. 



