HIRAM WARNER HILL

HIRAM WARNER HILL is a native of this county, in which his father, Alexander Franklin Hill, a successful planter, was for many years a resident.

The family are among the pioneers of the state, to which Mr. Hill’s grandparents came from North Carolina, in the latter part of the last century. Wiley Hill settled in Wilkes County, and there in 1800 their son, Burwell P., was born; he married Martha Pope Johnson, and their son, Alexander Franklin Hill, was born in the same county in 1831; he died in 1888. His wife was Miss Mary Warner, a daughter of Hiram and Sarah (Abercrobie) Warner, the former eminent, not only among the citizens of his own state, but of his country, occupying as he did, the elevated and responsible office of chief justice of Georgia. He was born in the state of Massachusetts in 1802, his parents being Obadiah and Jane VVarner, natives of that state, the former a son of Joshua Warner, the latter a daughter of Capt. Coffin of Martha’s Vineyard. From this patriotic and honorable ancestry was descended Judge Warner, who in his early manhood, in 1821, made a home in Georgia, where his death occurred in 1881. His grandson and namesake, Hiram Warner Hill, was born in 1858 of this brave and honorable race.

During his boyhood, passed on the farm, he attended the schools of Greenville, Georgia, and afterward Emory College, later taking a law course at Harvard University, from which he received his degree in 1881, and returned home to begin the practice of his profession.

In this he has been very successful and is highly esteemed; he has for eight successive years (since 1886) been elected to represent his county in the state legislature, which responsibility he has borne with honor to himself and satisfaction to his constituency. During four years of this time he was chairman of the general judiciary committee of the house.

In 1884 Mr. Hill married Miss Lena Harris, a daughter of Henry R. and Eliza A. (Gresham) Harris. Mr. Harris, a native of Hancock County, has been a very influential man in his state, for which he served during the late war as colonel. He was for six years a member of congress, and three years third assistant post master-general of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are both active and faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and Mr. Hill is an honored member of the Masonic fraternity. They have been blessed with six children: H. W., Jr., Eliza, A. F., Lena, Mary, and Henry R. Lena died in 1893, and Henry in 1895.

Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Containing historical accounts of the states civil, military, industrial and professional interests and personal sketches of many of it’s people, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895

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