Hill, Daniel B.

Born: 1811-07-19 Tennessee

Died: 1904-05-25 Palo Alto, Mississippi

Flourished: 1836-1843 Springfield, Illinois

Hill was a physician, but while he lived in Springfield, Illinois, he operated mercantile and drug stores. A Whig, Hill was elected mayor of Springfield in 1843, but he resigned the same year. In 1841 and 1842, Hill retained Logan & Lincoln at least four times to represent him in court. Sometime after 1843, he moved to Chickasaw County, Mississippi, where in 1850 he was a hotel-keeper. By 1860, he was practicing as a physician and also likely owned a farm. He had accumulated $2,250 worth of real estate and claimed $14,610 in personal property. He owned six enslaved people in 1860.

U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Sangamon County, IL, 17; John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 45, 501; Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 2 April 1836, 2:6; 20 October 1838, 2:7; 14 May 1841, 3:2; 22 April 1842, 2:7; For Hill's cases, search "Hill, Daniel B.," Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Chickasaw County, MS, 327; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Chickasaw County, MS, 86; Illinois State Register (Springfield), 17 May 1894, 6:4; Gravestone, Palo Alto Cemetery, Clay County, MS; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States-Slave Schedules (1860), Chickasaw County, MS, 76.