Jesse T. Hill

Jesse T. Hill, of Chattanooga, was born in Nashville, Tenn., March 18, 1850, and is a son of Robert T. and Catherine (Stout) Hill, natives of Nashville, where our subject was reared and educated. In 1868 he came to Chattanooga and entered the employ of the Southern Express Company, where he remained four years. He was then deputy clerk and master of chancery court about ten years, after which he became secre­tary of the Etna Coal Company. In September, 1885, he engaged in the marble business as a member of the firm of Daly, Smith & Hill. Mr. Hill has been director of the Third National Bank, of Chattanooga since its organization, and is also director of Citico Furnace Company. He is president of the Tennessee Marble & Railroad Company, with head­quarters here, and quarry in Monroe County, Tenn., March 16, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Alice B. Woodward, a native of Ohio, and to them were born three daughters. Mr. Hill is a Democrat, and was mayor of Chattanooga during the years 1878-79. He is a Mason, was a member of the Chattanooga school board four years, and himself and family are Episcopalians. His partner, Patrick O. Daly, was born in Ireland in 1836, and came to the United States in 1849, where he learned the marble cutter's trade in New York City. He worked at the same in Northern cities until 1872, when he came to Chattanooga in April of that year and engaged in the marble business. He is a Royal Arch Mason.

Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887