An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 276-277

EDWIN M. HILL, of the firm of Hill & Robinson, blacksmiths and wagon makers,
resides at Dufur, Wasco county. He is a native son of this grand state, having
been born in Malheur county, April 22, 1872. The house in which he was born
stood on the Idaho and Oregon state line, one-half of the edifice in Oregon, the
other half in Idaho. The family postoffice was at Silver City, Idaho. His
father, Marshall Hill, is a native of Tennessee, his parents being descended
from a prominent Pennsylvania Dutch family. His mother, Prudence (Thomas) Hill,
was born in Linn county, Oregon, her ancestry being, also, of Dutch extraction.
Her parents crossed the plains so early as 1849. Marshall Hill, father of our
subject, accompanied his parents on the perilous journey over the plains, in
1852. He was an active participant in the Indian war of Rogue River, in 1855 and
1856, and in the Piute war in Idaho. He is a fruit grower, residing one mile
south of The Dalles, on a farm, with his wife, the mother of our subject.      

With his parents young Hill moved to Gilliam county when he was about six years
of age. Two years afterward they moved to The Dalles, and our subject attended
public schools and worked on the farm. He received the benefit of a course at
the high school at The Dalles. In 1897 he went with the Lane brothers of The
Dalles where he learned the trade of a blacksmith. With them he remained until
March, 1902, when he located at Dufur, and purchased his present shop front the
Summer Fallow Machine Company. Later he associated himself with Mr. Robinson as
a partner. They have one of the best equipped shops of the kind in the country,
doing all descriptions appertaining to the trade. They employ one man the year
round, and the greater portion of the time they have two helpers. Mr. Hill has
one brother and three sisters; Roy, with his parents at The Dalles; Melissa, who
taught school at The Dalles twelve years, and is now one of the faculty of
McMinnville College: Julia, who has taught ten years; and Bertha, wife of J.B.
Spite, a Baptist minister, at Hood River, Oregon.      

Mr. Hill was married at The Dalles, September 6, 1898, to Lulu J. Berrian, born
at Goldendale, Washington, the daughter of James and Leona (Wendell) Berrian.
Her father died when Mrs. Hill was nine years of age. At present her mother
resides at Hood River. Mrs. Hill has three brothers and one sister; James, in
the employment of the government fish hatchery at Roseburg, Oregon; George, with
a mercantile firm, at Portland; Howard, at Portland; and Ada, wife of Lucius
Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have two children, Lois and Howard. Our subject is a
member of the United Artisans, the I.O.O.F., and politically is a
prohibitionist. Personally he is a fine, progressive gentleman, and an
influential citizen.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.