Hill, Katharine Louisa Smith, 1847-1935.

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.

From the description of Papers, 1800-1967 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006647