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| Name | George W. Hill |
| Photographer | F. LaRoche |
| Highest Rank | Steward |
| Unit | U.S. Navy, hospital ship Red Rover |
| Born | June 1846 |
| Place Born | Illinois |
| Died | January 6, 1917 |
| Place Died | Seattle, WA |
| Buried | Mount Pleasant (Seattle) |
| Service Record | N/A |
| Obit/Notes | -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, April 7, 1917, page 17, column B
F. & A. M., K. P., I. O. O. F., G. A. R., W. R. C. and M. E. B. A., ATTENTION!
HILL - In this city, April 6, 1917, CAPT. GEORGE W. HILL, beloved husband of Maggie S., father of W. D. and W. A. Hill, Mrs. Asa[sic] M. Heady and Asa[sic] Jannette Fullam, grandfather of Aubrey and Leland Heady and W. D. Hill, Jr., aged 72 years. member of St. John's No. 9, F. & A. M.; Queen City, No. 10, K. P.; Seattle, No. 7, I. O. O. F.; Stevens Post, No. 1, G. A. R., and M. E. B. A., No. 38.
Funeral services will take place Sunday next from the mortuary chapel of Butterworth & Sons, 1921 First avenue, at 3 p.m. All friends and members of above societies invited. Interment at Mount Pleasant. Body at family home, 212 Twenty-third avenue. |
| Subjects (TGM) | Hill, George W., 1846-1917--Portrait photographs
Grand Army of the Republic. Stevens Post No. 1--People--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portrait photographs
United States--History--Civil War, 1961-1865--Veterans--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portrait photographs
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| Digital Collection | Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Portraits
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| Order Number | GAR105 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission, contact the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Seattle Room in The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4633 or send email to sea@spl.org. |
| Photograph Number | 29.1 |
| Repository | Seattle Public Library |
| Repository Collection | Hugh and Jane Ferguson Seattle Room, Local History Collection |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as 400 ppi TIFF on a Microtek 9800 scanner; derivatives created using Adobe Photoshop (600 pixels wide) and saved as a JPG file using Photoshop's image quality "8". Scanning performed in 1/2007. |
| Studio Location | Seattle, WA |
| Original Creator | Laroche, Frank |
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