Hill, Sylvester Isaac

Birth Name Hill, Sylvester Isaac
Gender male
Age at Death 70 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1858    
 
Death 1928    
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Hill, Reuben Captain1826
Mother Hamilton, Mary Polly1825
         Hill, Sylvester Isaac 1858 1928
    Brother     Hill, George Seldon 1861 UNKNOWN
    Brother     Hill, Reuben F. 1864 UNKNOWN

Families

    Family of Hill, Sylvester Isaac and Strout, Nellie E.
Unknown Partner Strout, Nellie E. ( * 1861 + ... )

Narrative

Captain Sylvester Isaac Hill (1858-1929). A newspaper interviewwith him and printed in a Portland paper in 1927 is SOURCEmaterial in " Stone Sloops"He was son of Captain Reuben and Polly Hamilton Hill. Hemarried Nellie E. Strout. Captain Hill is intimately connectedwith the M.M. HAMILTON for most of his life--first with CaptainReuben, his father, and also Captain John F. Hamilton, hisuncle and controlling owner. Later he owned this sloop himselfand as late as 1916 he was advertising "Sylvester I. Hill,Contractor--Sea Walls and Wharves--Private Stone Landings aspecialty--estimates cheerfully furnished - 12 Commercial Wharf,Portland, Me. - residence Chebeague Island". The granite forthe Washington Monument was freighted by him.

Pedigree

  1. Hill, Reuben Captain
    1. Hamilton, Mary Polly
      1. Hill, Sylvester Isaac
        1. Strout, Nellie E.
      2. Hill, George Seldon
      3. Hill, Reuben F.

Ancestors