From collection Member List
EDUCATION: Brother Hill entered The University of Georgia in 1873. He was a member and Treasurer of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, likely initiated prior to Chancellor Tucker’s decision to bar fraternities from campus in 1874. Member, The University of Georgia’s Class of 1876. After graduation, Hill studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, New York, 1877 (Doctor of Medicine) and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, by then the Medical Department at Columbia College, now Columbia University.
Brother Hill was the sixth of nine children of Col. Wylie Pope Hill, “one of the largest and most successful planters in the state.” An older brother, Burwell Meriwether Hill, was also an early member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at The University of Georgia. The Hill brothers are buried next to one another in Wylie Pope Hill lot at Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Georgia. [For more information on the Hill family, see also “The Hills of Wilkes County, Georgia and Allied Families,” by Lodowick Johnson Hill, Johnson-Dallis Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1922, p. 103.]
Brother Hill married first Willie Reeves Callaway, March 5, 1884, Wilkes County, Georgia; she died very soon after their marriage. John James Hill married second Mary Louisa Pope on October 15, 1889 at the First Baptist Church of Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.
Fellow Kappa Deuteron Brother Nathaniel Hunter Pope’s future wife, Kate Ingram Weems, was a bridesmaid in Brother Hill’s second wedding. Brother Hill’s second wife, Mary Lou Pope, was a daughter of William Alexander Pope, who was a half-brother of Kappa Deuteron’s Frederick Ball Pope and Nathaniel Hunter Pope, sons of Alexander Pope by his third wife Cornelia Wiley Ball. William Alexander Pope’s mother was Sarah Joyner Barnett, daughter of Samuel Barnett, who was the grandfather of Brother Osborne Stone Barnett.
The marriage of Brother Hill’s 20-year-old daughter, Effie Pope Hill, to Edward B. Alsop, 60 years her senior, at Trinity Church in New York City, created quite a public stir. After their honeymoon, the two separated.
CAREER: Brother Hill was a physician. He served pro bono as the physician for the St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Washington, Georgia, at the site of the first Catholic parish in Georgia. The orphanage was operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and relocated from Savannah in 1876 in favor of the “open country and climate” of its new host city. Dr. Hill was a member of the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) and a delegate to the 1892 American Medical Association (AMA) convention. He also practiced his healing trade in Athens and Atlanta.
The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, April 1886, p. 148:
DR. JOHN J. HILL, an enthusiastic Delta, is successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Washington, Ga. Brother Hill thinks of locating either in Athens or Atlanta in order to obtain a larger scope and more extended field of labor. ΚΔ had a very pleasant visit from her distinguished Brother last month. He was highly pleased with all the ΦΓΔ’s boys here and will visit them again at an early date.
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The familial, business and civic ties between the Adams, Andrews, Barnett, Bussey, Callaway, Cason, Dearing, Evans, Head, Hill, Pope, Taliaferro, Walton and Wynn(e) families of Meriwether, Muscogee and Wilkes county - all of which produced men who were members of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta...
Brother Hill was the sixth of nine children of Col. Wylie Pope Hill, “one of the largest and most successful planters in the state.” An older brother, Burwell Meriwether Hill, was also an early member of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at The University of Georgia. The Hill brothers are buried next to one another in Wylie Pope Hill lot at Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, Georgia. [For more information on the Hill family, see also “The Hills of Wilkes County, Georgia and Allied Families,” by Lodowick Johnson Hill, Johnson-Dallis Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1922, p. 103.]
Brother Hill married first Willie Reeves Callaway, March 5, 1884, Wilkes County, Georgia; she died very soon after their marriage. John James Hill married second Mary Louisa Pope on October 15, 1889 at the First Baptist Church of Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia.
Fellow Kappa Deuteron Brother Nathaniel Hunter Pope’s future wife, Kate Ingram Weems, was a bridesmaid in Brother Hill’s second wedding. Brother Hill’s second wife, Mary Lou Pope, was a daughter of William Alexander Pope, who was a half-brother of Kappa Deuteron’s Frederick Ball Pope and Nathaniel Hunter Pope, sons of Alexander Pope by his third wife Cornelia Wiley Ball. William Alexander Pope’s mother was Sarah Joyner Barnett, daughter of Samuel Barnett, who was the grandfather of Brother Osborne Stone Barnett.
The marriage of Brother Hill’s 20-year-old daughter, Effie Pope Hill, to Edward B. Alsop, 60 years her senior, at Trinity Church in New York City, created quite a public stir. After their honeymoon, the two separated.
CAREER: Brother Hill was a physician. He served pro bono as the physician for the St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Washington, Georgia, at the site of the first Catholic parish in Georgia. The orphanage was operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and relocated from Savannah in 1876 in favor of the “open country and climate” of its new host city. Dr. Hill was a member of the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) and a delegate to the 1892 American Medical Association (AMA) convention. He also practiced his healing trade in Athens and Atlanta.
The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly, April 1886, p. 148:
DR. JOHN J. HILL, an enthusiastic Delta, is successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Washington, Ga. Brother Hill thinks of locating either in Athens or Atlanta in order to obtain a larger scope and more extended field of labor. ΚΔ had a very pleasant visit from her distinguished Brother last month. He was highly pleased with all the ΦΓΔ’s boys here and will visit them again at an early date.
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The familial, business and civic ties between the Adams, Andrews, Barnett, Bussey, Callaway, Cason, Dearing, Evans, Head, Hill, Pope, Taliaferro, Walton and Wynn(e) families of Meriwether, Muscogee and Wilkes county - all of which produced men who were members of the early Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta...
