Tulare County Biographies

HIRAM HAROLD HILL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Among the pioneers of Tulare county, California, was a family named 
Hill, who located near the place known as Mineral King. A son of this pioneer 
was educated for the ministry and became the Rev. F. E. Hill, well known in 
church work throughout the San Joaquin valley, his first pastorate being in 
Visalia. This young clergyman married Miss Lilly Beverton and Hiram Harold Hill 
is their son. The mother died while Hiram was yet in his childhood. The father 
is still active as a minister of the Gospel.
        Hiram Harold Hill was born in Monrovia, California, January 4, 1890. He 
attended the public schools until he won the consent of his father to let him 
leave school and engage in some useful occupation. His first job was on a ranch, 
in which line of work he continued for four years. For the next eleven years he 
was employed by a railroad company, part of the time as a machinist's helper in 
the company's shops and part of the time with a logging gang in the mountains. 
Upon severing his connection with the railroad company he went to Exeter, where 
for a year he was employed by a laundry. He was then for six years with the 
Visalia Star Laundry and one year with the Parisian Cleaners, also of Visalia.
        In January, 1922, he became associated with the Olds & Stoller 
Inter-exchange as a salesman of insurance. This company writes various kinds of 
insurance policies, including automobile insurance, in which Mr. Hill soon 
qualified as an expert. On March 1, 1922, he was made manager of the Visalia 
branch of the company. His promotion was an incentive to greater effort and he 
built up a substantial business after he assumed the management. He resigned as 
branch manager for Olds & Stoller on April 1, 1925, entering into business for 
himself as general insurance agent, using the slogan, "Let Hustling Hiram Hill 
Prescribe for Your Insurance Ills."
        Mr. Hill is a republican in his political views and his fraternal 
associations are with the Eagles and the Loyal Order of Moose. In the latter 
organization he has been active for the past fourteen years and he has passed 
through the chairs�that is, he has held all the principal offices in the lodge. 
His recreation is in watching a good game of baseball or football. He married 
Miss Irene Kruse of Columbia, California. They have no children.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 320