CAPT. CHARLES D. HILL,
Born in Leaksville, North Carolina, October 20, 1837, has been a resident
of Virginia since 1866. He is a son of William R. Hill, a retired
banker now eighty-four years old, living near Maxton, North Carolina,
born in Raleigh county, that State, the son of Green Hill, whose father
was Rev. Wm. Hill, born in England, and a chaplain in the Revolutionary
war. The mother of Captain Hill is Sarah A. Hill, nee Simmons,
of Petersburg, Virginia. His wife is Harriet R., daughter of
Charles B. and Ann (Hackley) Williams, born near Richmond, her
parents Virginians. Captain Hill was married in Richmond, May 2,
1861, and has one daughter, Fannie W.
After attending school in boyhood in Milton, North Carolina, he
clerked in a store in that State six years. Coming to Richmond in
April, 1857, he was book-keeper for Williams & Carrington, tobacco
commission merchants, for two years. Returning then to Milton, he
went into business as a partner in the firm of Smith & Hill, general
merchandise. He entered the Confederate States army in April, 1861,
private in Company C, 13th North Carolina Infantry. He was appointed
regimental quartermaster, and so served until in 1864 he was made
paymaster of Wilcox's division, Hill's Army Corps, with which he served
till the close of the war. He then went to New York, and was in the
employ of Henry M. Morris, southern general produce merchant, until
the spring of 1866, when he made his home in Richmond.
He went into business here a member of the firm of Hill & Poteet,
tobacco commission merchants. Mr. Poteet dying, Mr. Bentley became
his partner, and later Charles R. Skinker of New York was taken into
the firm, the firm style remaining, for six years, Hill, Bentley & Skinker.
Mr. Bentley then retired and the firm of Hill & Skinker continued the
business three years. Then Charles Watkins of Milton, North Carolina,
was admitted, the firm becoming Hill, Skinker & Watkins. In
May, 1882, this firm dissolved, and since then Mr. Hill has conducted
the business alone, under the name of Charles D. Hill & Co., tobacco,
grain, general commission merchants. All the business with which he
has been connected since 1866, has been conducted in the warehouse on
Fourteenth street, between Main and Cary, and at the central warehouse,
Nos. 1412-1416 Cary street.
