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About
Date of Photograph
1930-31
Title
WPL-97
Subject
Wichita; Kansas; Photographs; Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection; Wichita Businessman; Portrait Photography; Wichita Mayors; Wichita City Government
Description
- Herman A. Hill was born 5 October 1866 in Uniontown, Kansas. He married Ida May Wilson on 2 September 1888 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. Ida was born in April 1866 in New York.
- In 1917 and many years after, Herman had a hardware business, Hill Hardware Co. He served two years as city councilman before city commission government came to Wichita. On 2 March 1929 he was elected City Commissioner for a four-year term. He was with the Messenger Pacific Express for seventeen years and was an agent for the U.S. Express Co. for three years.
- Herman died suddenly on 12 September 1936 in Wichita from a cerebral hemorrhage. Ida died in February 1944 in Wichita. Both are buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Wichita. One son is known to born to this union.
Type
TIF
Identifier
WPL-97
Rights
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