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Edward Rowland Hills

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Edward Rowland Hills

Birth
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Death
1953 (aged 78–79)
Burial
Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 15, lot 45
Memorial ID
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HILLS--Edward R. Hills of 313 Forest avenue, Oak Park, husband of Mary M., father of John Moore, Edward Freer, Nathan Grier, Sidney Oscar, and Thomas McDougal, nine grandchildren, brother of Miriam Hills of Pasadena, Cal., and Thomas M. Hills of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. At funeral home, 203 S. Marion street at Pleasant street, Oak Park, until 1 p. m. Thursday. Service Thursday, 3 p. m., at First Presbyterian church, Oak Park. Interment Forest Home. The favor of no flowers is requested. Memorial gifts may be sent to Chicago Bible society.
--Chicago Tribune 15 September 1953, p. C5

EDWARD R. HILLS
Special to the New York Times
OAK PARK, Ill., Sept. 14--Edward Rowland Hills, for more than fifty years a member of the Chicago Bar Association, died at his home yesterday at the age of 77.
Mr. Hills retired fifteen years ago from an active law practice that began here in 1902. He was graduated from the University of Cincinnati Law School in 1900, when William Howard Taft, later President of the United States, was its dean.
Surviving are his widow and five sons.
--New York Times 15 September 1953, p. 31

Mother: Louise Esther Freer, b. Chicago, May 16, 1842, d. Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Aug. 23, 1884.
HILLS--Edward R. Hills of 313 Forest avenue, Oak Park, husband of Mary M., father of John Moore, Edward Freer, Nathan Grier, Sidney Oscar, and Thomas McDougal, nine grandchildren, brother of Miriam Hills of Pasadena, Cal., and Thomas M. Hills of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. At funeral home, 203 S. Marion street at Pleasant street, Oak Park, until 1 p. m. Thursday. Service Thursday, 3 p. m., at First Presbyterian church, Oak Park. Interment Forest Home. The favor of no flowers is requested. Memorial gifts may be sent to Chicago Bible society.
--Chicago Tribune 15 September 1953, p. C5

EDWARD R. HILLS
Special to the New York Times
OAK PARK, Ill., Sept. 14--Edward Rowland Hills, for more than fifty years a member of the Chicago Bar Association, died at his home yesterday at the age of 77.
Mr. Hills retired fifteen years ago from an active law practice that began here in 1902. He was graduated from the University of Cincinnati Law School in 1900, when William Howard Taft, later President of the United States, was its dean.
Surviving are his widow and five sons.
--New York Times 15 September 1953, p. 31

Mother: Louise Esther Freer, b. Chicago, May 16, 1842, d. Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., Cal., Aug. 23, 1884.


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