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-- JOHN B. HILL, the father of the subject of this notice, was born in Mittlebach, Hessen, Germany, in 1810.  In 1834 he came to this country in company with John Schoeppner, and together they settled in Wheeling, W. Va.  In 1838 Mr. Hill came to Noble County and entered forty acres of land in Enoch Township, returning to Virginia, where he worked one year to obtain money with which to enter another forty.  Afterward he sold his purchases and bought eighty acres, upon which he resided for many years.  He died in April of 1880, aged seventy years.  He married Miss Ottillia, daughter of JohnSchoeppner, who was his fellow passenger from Germany and one of the first German settlers of Enoch Township.  He had a family of seven children:  John, Catharina, Anna B., Leonard, Barbara, Eva and John B.  The latter was born in 1850 and married, in 1872, Miss Mary F. Raush, and has a family of eight children: Rosa, Aloysius, Joseph, Eva, Catherine, George, Peter and Ottillia.  He is one of the leading German farmers of the county, owning the old homestead, to which he has added seventy-five acres, making a fine farm of 237 acres, under good improvement and with good buildings.  For some time he has made sheep growing a specialty.  like his father, he is a Democrat in politics and a Catholic in religion.  Both have been generous supporters of church enterprises, and aided in the erection of St. Mary's church.
    John B. has for six years been a justice of the peace.  He is a prosperous farmer and an esteemed citizen.
Source:  History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 565