San Diego County Biographies
 
PROF. J. HILL

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instructor of vocal and instrumental music, San Diego, was born at San Antonio, 
Texas, in 1852; his father was a school-teacher and his mother a teacher of 
music. Professor Hill began his studies at the age of five years, both in music 
and the classics. He studied at the university at the city of Mexico and 
graduated at the Gonzales College, at Georgetown, Texas. In 1871 he went to New 
Orleans and for two years studied music with private teachers at the New Orleans 
Conservatory. From 1872 to 1876 he was principal of the music department of the 
Gonzales College; he then studied one year with professors Giprecht and 
Gottschalk; from 1877-�80 he was musical director of Goliad college from 1880 to 
1883, of the Southwestern University, commencing with eleven pupils, but before 
leaving had over 100. He then spent eight years in travel and study, and in 1888 
came to San Diego, opening rooms at the corner of Fourth and D streets, and 
teaching music under the auspices of the College of Fine Arts, which is under 
the management of the University of California, the Conservatory of Music being 
a department of the college. Professor Hill also has charge of the musical 
department of the �College of Letters" at Pacific Beach. He makes a specialty of 
the piano, and in the conservatory averages about twenty-five pupils.
 
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San 
Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - 
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 383