From the 1911 book Past and Present of Hardin County Iowa, page 560:
Dr. William K. S. and Lurana Jane (Richardson) Hillhouse were natives of Kentucky and Illinois, respectively, having been married in the latter state. Doctor Hillhouse moved to Illinois with his parents when quite young and after residing in that state until 1860, he started to Kansas, but owing to the disturbed conditions growing out of the political troubles of the times and the breaking out of the war between the North and South, he stopped in Poweshiek county, Iowa, through which his route to the West lay. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted in the Forty-second Iowa Infantry, with which he served for a period of eighteen months, during which time he took part in the siege of Vicksburg, where, by reason of exposure in the trenches and drinking water polluted by dead bodies both of men and animals, he was taken violently ill. Upon regaining sufficient strength to travel he was sent home on account of disability. After his enlistment his wife returned to Illinois and it was to the family home in that state that he was sent from the front. Subsequently he returned to Iowa and located at Iowa City, where he read medicine under the direction of Doctor Robinson and in due time began the practice of his profession at that place.
Doctor Hillhouse soon became one of the leading medical men of his part of the state and during more than twenty-five years of practice he achieved marked success and gained much more than local repute as a physician and surgeon. He was also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and preached for a number of years, principally in Johnson county, throughout which he organized a number of churches and was instrumental in inducing thousands of people to accept the claims of religion and lead better lives. In 1873 he went to Kansas and settled a short distance south of Emporia, where he engaged in farming, in connection with which he continued his medical practice and religious work, besides doing considerable writing for the newspapers and other periodicals. In 1875 he started back to Iowa with Marshalltown as his objective point, but, stopping at Barnard, Missouri, engaged temporarily in the timber and wood business. In 1876 he located at Marshalltown, but after a brief residence there went to Grundy county, where he spent two years, returning to the former place at the expiration of that time. In 1880 he moved to Ellis township, Hardin county, where he continued to preach for two years, when he transferred his residence to Monona county, leaving his sons, Arthur P. and Justin W., in the township and taking two of his children with him, his wife having died in the meantime.
Doctor Hillhouse was married the second time in Hamilton county, this state [Iowa], to Rebecca Williams, some time after which he moved to Missouri, later to Kansas and finally to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a man of more than ordinary mental capacity, a successful physician and an eloquent and forceful preacher and during a long and strenuous life he accomplished a vast amount of good in the cause of God and humanity. His death came suddenly August 9, 1906, while absent from home on a visit to a son in New Mexico and was profoundly regretted by his church and the people of the different states among whom he had labored so effectively. During his residence at Bartlesville, he was untiring in his efforts to adjust the differences between the residents of the North and those from the South; he was also influential in the religious and educational work of the city and as a broad-minded, public-spirited man of affairs, he commanded the respect and esteem of the entire community.
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Minister and Union Civil War soldier who served as a Private in Co. B, 40th Iowa Infantry. Received a Civil War pension by application # 1186.765, dated 25 Feb 1897.
OBITUARY / BARTLESVILLE MORNING EXAMINER
18 Aug 1906
William K. S. Hillhouse
Age 75. Wife, Mary R. Hillhouse. Buried White Rose Cemetery. Pioneer, buried with military rites.
Researchers have stated that he died in Nara Visa, Union Co. New Mexico.
Dr. William K. S. and Lurana Jane (Richardson) Hillhouse were natives of Kentucky and Illinois, respectively, having been married in the latter state. Doctor Hillhouse moved to Illinois with his parents when quite young and after residing in that state until 1860, he started to Kansas, but owing to the disturbed conditions growing out of the political troubles of the times and the breaking out of the war between the North and South, he stopped in Poweshiek county, Iowa, through which his route to the West lay. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted in the Forty-second Iowa Infantry, with which he served for a period of eighteen months, during which time he took part in the siege of Vicksburg, where, by reason of exposure in the trenches and drinking water polluted by dead bodies both of men and animals, he was taken violently ill. Upon regaining sufficient strength to travel he was sent home on account of disability. After his enlistment his wife returned to Illinois and it was to the family home in that state that he was sent from the front. Subsequently he returned to Iowa and located at Iowa City, where he read medicine under the direction of Doctor Robinson and in due time began the practice of his profession at that place.
Doctor Hillhouse soon became one of the leading medical men of his part of the state and during more than twenty-five years of practice he achieved marked success and gained much more than local repute as a physician and surgeon. He was also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and preached for a number of years, principally in Johnson county, throughout which he organized a number of churches and was instrumental in inducing thousands of people to accept the claims of religion and lead better lives. In 1873 he went to Kansas and settled a short distance south of Emporia, where he engaged in farming, in connection with which he continued his medical practice and religious work, besides doing considerable writing for the newspapers and other periodicals. In 1875 he started back to Iowa with Marshalltown as his objective point, but, stopping at Barnard, Missouri, engaged temporarily in the timber and wood business. In 1876 he located at Marshalltown, but after a brief residence there went to Grundy county, where he spent two years, returning to the former place at the expiration of that time. In 1880 he moved to Ellis township, Hardin county, where he continued to preach for two years, when he transferred his residence to Monona county, leaving his sons, Arthur P. and Justin W., in the township and taking two of his children with him, his wife having died in the meantime.
Doctor Hillhouse was married the second time in Hamilton county, this state [Iowa], to Rebecca Williams, some time after which he moved to Missouri, later to Kansas and finally to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a man of more than ordinary mental capacity, a successful physician and an eloquent and forceful preacher and during a long and strenuous life he accomplished a vast amount of good in the cause of God and humanity. His death came suddenly August 9, 1906, while absent from home on a visit to a son in New Mexico and was profoundly regretted by his church and the people of the different states among whom he had labored so effectively. During his residence at Bartlesville, he was untiring in his efforts to adjust the differences between the residents of the North and those from the South; he was also influential in the religious and educational work of the city and as a broad-minded, public-spirited man of affairs, he commanded the respect and esteem of the entire community.
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Minister and Union Civil War soldier who served as a Private in Co. B, 40th Iowa Infantry. Received a Civil War pension by application # 1186.765, dated 25 Feb 1897.
OBITUARY / BARTLESVILLE MORNING EXAMINER
18 Aug 1906
William K. S. Hillhouse
Age 75. Wife, Mary R. Hillhouse. Buried White Rose Cemetery. Pioneer, buried with military rites.
Researchers have stated that he died in Nara Visa, Union Co. New Mexico.
From the 1911 book Past and Present of Hardin County Iowa, page 560:
Dr. William K. S. and Lurana Jane (Richardson) Hillhouse were natives of Kentucky and Illinois, respectively, having been married in the latter state. Doctor Hillhouse moved to Illinois with his parents when quite young and after residing in that state until 1860, he started to Kansas, but owing to the disturbed conditions growing out of the political troubles of the times and the breaking out of the war between the North and South, he stopped in Poweshiek county, Iowa, through which his route to the West lay. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted in the Forty-second Iowa Infantry, with which he served for a period of eighteen months, during which time he took part in the siege of Vicksburg, where, by reason of exposure in the trenches and drinking water polluted by dead bodies both of men and animals, he was taken violently ill. Upon regaining sufficient strength to travel he was sent home on account of disability. After his enlistment his wife returned to Illinois and it was to the family home in that state that he was sent from the front. Subsequently he returned to Iowa and located at Iowa City, where he read medicine under the direction of Doctor Robinson and in due time began the practice of his profession at that place.
Doctor Hillhouse soon became one of the leading medical men of his part of the state and during more than twenty-five years of practice he achieved marked success and gained much more than local repute as a physician and surgeon. He was also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and preached for a number of years, principally in Johnson county, throughout which he organized a number of churches and was instrumental in inducing thousands of people to accept the claims of religion and lead better lives. In 1873 he went to Kansas and settled a short distance south of Emporia, where he engaged in farming, in connection with which he continued his medical practice and religious work, besides doing considerable writing for the newspapers and other periodicals. In 1875 he started back to Iowa with Marshalltown as his objective point, but, stopping at Barnard, Missouri, engaged temporarily in the timber and wood business. In 1876 he located at Marshalltown, but after a brief residence there went to Grundy county, where he spent two years, returning to the former place at the expiration of that time. In 1880 he moved to Ellis township, Hardin county, where he continued to preach for two years, when he transferred his residence to Monona county, leaving his sons, Arthur P. and Justin W., in the township and taking two of his children with him, his wife having died in the meantime.
Doctor Hillhouse was married the second time in Hamilton county, this state [Iowa], to Rebecca Williams, some time after which he moved to Missouri, later to Kansas and finally to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a man of more than ordinary mental capacity, a successful physician and an eloquent and forceful preacher and during a long and strenuous life he accomplished a vast amount of good in the cause of God and humanity. His death came suddenly August 9, 1906, while absent from home on a visit to a son in New Mexico and was profoundly regretted by his church and the people of the different states among whom he had labored so effectively. During his residence at Bartlesville, he was untiring in his efforts to adjust the differences between the residents of the North and those from the South; he was also influential in the religious and educational work of the city and as a broad-minded, public-spirited man of affairs, he commanded the respect and esteem of the entire community.
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Minister and Union Civil War soldier who served as a Private in Co. B, 40th Iowa Infantry. Received a Civil War pension by application # 1186.765, dated 25 Feb 1897.
OBITUARY / BARTLESVILLE MORNING EXAMINER
18 Aug 1906
William K. S. Hillhouse
Age 75. Wife, Mary R. Hillhouse. Buried White Rose Cemetery. Pioneer, buried with military rites.
Researchers have stated that he died in Nara Visa, Union Co. New Mexico.
Dr. William K. S. and Lurana Jane (Richardson) Hillhouse were natives of Kentucky and Illinois, respectively, having been married in the latter state. Doctor Hillhouse moved to Illinois with his parents when quite young and after residing in that state until 1860, he started to Kansas, but owing to the disturbed conditions growing out of the political troubles of the times and the breaking out of the war between the North and South, he stopped in Poweshiek county, Iowa, through which his route to the West lay. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted in the Forty-second Iowa Infantry, with which he served for a period of eighteen months, during which time he took part in the siege of Vicksburg, where, by reason of exposure in the trenches and drinking water polluted by dead bodies both of men and animals, he was taken violently ill. Upon regaining sufficient strength to travel he was sent home on account of disability. After his enlistment his wife returned to Illinois and it was to the family home in that state that he was sent from the front. Subsequently he returned to Iowa and located at Iowa City, where he read medicine under the direction of Doctor Robinson and in due time began the practice of his profession at that place.
Doctor Hillhouse soon became one of the leading medical men of his part of the state and during more than twenty-five years of practice he achieved marked success and gained much more than local repute as a physician and surgeon. He was also a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and preached for a number of years, principally in Johnson county, throughout which he organized a number of churches and was instrumental in inducing thousands of people to accept the claims of religion and lead better lives. In 1873 he went to Kansas and settled a short distance south of Emporia, where he engaged in farming, in connection with which he continued his medical practice and religious work, besides doing considerable writing for the newspapers and other periodicals. In 1875 he started back to Iowa with Marshalltown as his objective point, but, stopping at Barnard, Missouri, engaged temporarily in the timber and wood business. In 1876 he located at Marshalltown, but after a brief residence there went to Grundy county, where he spent two years, returning to the former place at the expiration of that time. In 1880 he moved to Ellis township, Hardin county, where he continued to preach for two years, when he transferred his residence to Monona county, leaving his sons, Arthur P. and Justin W., in the township and taking two of his children with him, his wife having died in the meantime.
Doctor Hillhouse was married the second time in Hamilton county, this state [Iowa], to Rebecca Williams, some time after which he moved to Missouri, later to Kansas and finally to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a man of more than ordinary mental capacity, a successful physician and an eloquent and forceful preacher and during a long and strenuous life he accomplished a vast amount of good in the cause of God and humanity. His death came suddenly August 9, 1906, while absent from home on a visit to a son in New Mexico and was profoundly regretted by his church and the people of the different states among whom he had labored so effectively. During his residence at Bartlesville, he was untiring in his efforts to adjust the differences between the residents of the North and those from the South; he was also influential in the religious and educational work of the city and as a broad-minded, public-spirited man of affairs, he commanded the respect and esteem of the entire community.
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Minister and Union Civil War soldier who served as a Private in Co. B, 40th Iowa Infantry. Received a Civil War pension by application # 1186.765, dated 25 Feb 1897.
OBITUARY / BARTLESVILLE MORNING EXAMINER
18 Aug 1906
William K. S. Hillhouse
Age 75. Wife, Mary R. Hillhouse. Buried White Rose Cemetery. Pioneer, buried with military rites.
Researchers have stated that he died in Nara Visa, Union Co. New Mexico.
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