Hill, Katharine Louisa Smith, 1847-1935.
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Hill, Katharine Louisa Smith, 1847-1935.
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Katharine Louisa (Smith) Hill was the daughter of Catharine Rachel (Childs) Smith and Augustus William Smith (1802-1866), the professor of mathematics of the founding faculty of Wesleyan University and the fifth president of Wesleyan. She married Walter Nickerson Hill, a civilian research chemist for the U.S. Navy, in 1877; he was killed in an explosion in New Jersey in 1884. As a widow with three small children, Hill settled in Newport, R.I., where she had relatives, taught private school, and was an active church member and director of the Newport Historical Society.
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