Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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ALBERT BURTON HILL.� Albert Burton Hill, now deceased, was 
the youngest son of John and Maria (Daubner) Hill, and was born in Brook- 
field, Waukesha County, Wis., on October 14, 1869. He was educated in the 
public schools and came to California with his father in 1880, and was asso- 
ciated with him until 1896, when he purchased 160 acres of land four miles 
southwest of Coalinga. Later he bought another 160 acres. He engaged in 
grain farming, but had three acres in orchard and two acres in vineyard, 
shade trees and flowers. The place was highly improved, with irrigating 
ditch, good buildings and ground under splendid cultivation. In 1899 he 
started hauling materials to the oil fields. He also conducted a hay and grain 
store on E Street, Coalinga, in a building he bought and moved onto a lot 
that he owned on that street. In 1905 he was appointed postmaster of Coal- 
inga by President Roosevelt. He died while in office April 6, 1907. A. B. 
Hill was very active in politics, a Republican, and was associated with the 
leaders in Fresno County. He was a member of the Republican Central Com- 
mittee of Fresno County, and a member of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen 
and Red Men 

A. B. Hill married Grace Isabelle Slater, born in Milwaukee. Wis., who 
came to California in 1880, when a little girl and attended school in Merced and 
Kings Counties. Of this union were born two children: Lloyd H., a grad- 
uate of Coalinga high school, married to Ina Cawelti of Los Angeles, who 
holds a responsible position with the Union Tool Company at Torrance. He 
was prominent in athletics. And Mabel A., in the Intermediate school in 
Coalinga. A. B. Hill was a good business man, and he saw the possibilities 
of the future of Coalinga. When the Sunset Addition was put on the market 
in Coalinga, he bought the first lot and owned fourteen of them. In the early 
days he farmed these same lots. This property is now all built up and forms 
a part of the residence section of Coalinga. Lots then selling for sixty and 
corner lots for seventy dollars are now worth from $200.00 to $250.00 each. 

Since the death of Mr. Hill, the care of this property has fallen to his 
wife, who has shown exceptional ability in looking after it. She has erected 
four houses and sold some of the lots, planted shade trees in the streets and 
otherwise improved the property. She is a fine business woman, and has 
displayed a great deal of executive force. The ranch property has all been 
sold and a part invested in town property and other securities. She is a 
member of the Royal Neighbors.