Hill, Michael

Born: 1794-XX-XX

Died: 1848-12-28 Bloomington, Illinois

Flourished: 1840-1842 Sangamon County, Illinois

In 1840, Hill was the head of a Springfield, Illinois, academy or grammar school with twenty-seven scholars. In March 1842, he was found guilty of manslaughter and ordered to serve one year and ten days in prison. Abraham Lincoln authored and signed a petition for Hill's pardon, which Governor Thomas Carlin granted in April 1842.

U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Sangamon County, IL, 7; Lincoln et al. petitioned for pardon of Hill, 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/Details.aspx?case=141548; Daily Register (Springfield, IL), 8 January 1849, 3:2; Petition of Alexander Fisher and Others to Thomas Carlin.