Hill, Lucius D., 1889-1984

Lucius D. Hill Jr. was born in Sparta, Tenn., in 1889. His father, Lucius D. Hill Sr. was a speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and his grandfather, William Jasper Hill, was a lawyer and Confederate Army officer. After briefly attending the medical college at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., in 1906, and graduating from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1914, Hill was a medical resident at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. In 1916, he served as an Army physician during the Punitive Expedition into Mexico with General John J. Pershing. From 1918 to 1920, he served in the 113th Machine Gun Battalion of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, also as a physician. After returning to Bellevue Hospital and completing his residency, Hill moved to San Antonio, Tex., to practice medicine and was a founding member of the Texas Pediatric Society. He continued his medical practice until 1969 when he retired at age 80. He died on 4 June 1984 at age 95. Hill's first wife was Charlotte Mohr Hill, and together they had four children. His second wife was Dorothy Duerler Hill, and together they had one child.

From the guide to the Lucius D. Hill Papers, 1894-2001, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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