HILL, Samuel (Sam)

Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Territory Tuesday, December 17, 1901, page 3 Death Of Samuel Hill Last letters received in Prescott regarding Sam Hill's condition were unusually favorable. Hence, when Mrs. Hill received a telegram from Paso Robles, California yesterday morning that her husband was very sick, it was a shock and a surprise. She was preparing to leave for California when another telegram came which stated that he had died during the afternoon at five minutes past 12 o'clock. Samuel Hill was 56 years of age. He was a native of Yorkshire, England, where he has three sisters and a brother now living. He leaves a wife and three children, residents of this city. In the late sixties he held a position of trust in Quartermaster's department, U.S.A, in San Francisco. In about 1872-3, he occupied a similar position at Ft. McDowell; and in 1875 was quartermaster sergeant under the late Capt. Simpson, at Ft. Whipple. About 1876, in company with Mr. Samuels, now one of the attaches of the Hill mercantile house, he engaged in the cattle and hog business in Tonto Basin. Owing to a severe drouth, this venture was not a success, and about 1877 we find Mr. Hill associated with Charley Fredericks in the tin and hardware business in Prescott. Some years later Mr. Hill bought his partner's interest in the business and continued it alone until he died. It can be said that he was strictly a self-made man. From a small beginning he built up one of the most considerable hardware businesses in Arizona. In his death this community has lost a valuable and useful citizen, from all points of view, for he was one of the men who backed his confidence in Prescott in that substantial way which has made the town what it is today. The news of his death of so useful and worthy man will be received with sorrow all over Arizona. Much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved family. Sam Hill was a member of the Masonic, the I.O.O.F. and the K. of P. orders. W. Greenwood, a nephew of the deceased, will leave for California today to bring the remains to Prescott for burial. -------------------- Arizona Republican, Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday, December 17, 1901 SAM HILL Prescott--Samuel Hill, a pioneer merchant of this city, died at Paso Robles, Cal. at 12:10 today of bronchitis. He was 56 years of age. A wife and three children survive him. He left England in 1863 and went to Oregon in 1865. He was a trooper in the United States Cavalry and was afterward clerk of the quartermaster's department at San Francisco. He was clerk of the quartermaster's department at Fort McDowell in 1875 under Captain McGregor, General Crook, commanding. He was afterward chief clerk of the quartermaster's department at Fort Whipple under Captain Simpson, General Kautz commanding. He went into the hardware business in Prescott in 1877 under the name of Fredericks and Hill. He was afterwards at Tombstone, where he was burned out in 1881. He lived in Phoenix from 1884 to 1887. Since then he resided at Prescott. Interment will take place here Monday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ) Saturday, December 21, 1901, p 4 Samuel Hill, the prominent hardware merchant of Prescott, died last Monday at Paso Robles, California. Mr Hill had been suffering for some time and was on the coast for his health where he had reported to be improving up to the day of his death. Mr Hill went to Prescott in the sixties, and in his death Arizona loses one of her most public spirited citizens.