Hill, Thomas

clergyman and educator, born at New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 7, 1818; graduated from Harvard in 1843, studied theology, and was ordained pastor at Waltham, Ma . (1845); became president of Antioch College (1859); president of Harvard College (1862-68); was botanist in the Ha ler expedition around the coasts of South America under Prof. Agas siz (1871); pastor of a church at Portland, Me. (1872). A close student of the natural sciences and mathematics, he aimed to make all science tributary to religion. He was the author of Geometry and Faith; Liberal Education, Natural Sources of Theology, . Died in 1891. Hill City, in Kansas, a post-village, cap. of Graham co., on the Union Pacific R. R.; has plow factory. Pop. (1895) 348. Hill City, in South Dakota , a city of Penning ton co., 46 miles S. of Deadwood, on B. & M. R. R. A mining center. Has lumber and saw mills and mines of tin. Pop . (1895) 675. Hill City, in Tenne ee, a post-village of Hamilton co. Pop. (1890) 1,763.