San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 2/8/2010
JOSEPH H. HILL
A representative viticulturist of the Ripon section of San Joaquin County, among the most prosperous farming districts in California, is Joseph H. Hill, the general manager of the Hilldale Vineyard, located near Ripon. He was born at Honey Grove, Texas, July 24, 1884, a son of Jesse W. and Mary (Gunter) Hill, both natives of Tennessee, who migrated to Texas in 1880. Jesse W. Hill became an extensive land owner in Texas and was a citizen of more than ordinary degree of public spirit and personal worth. He and his good wife reared six sons and one daughter who, with the husband and father, survive Mrs. Hill, who passed away in Melrose, Texas, in 1908. After spending about fifteen years riding the range, Joseph H. Hill engaged in rice raising and met with fine success in this new industry, for four successive years. In 1908 he left his father's ranch and went to Fort Worth, Texas, and was employed in the Armour packing plant there and was soon promoted to division superintendent of the plant, where he remained until 1918, when he resigned his position to come to California.
On October 9, 1909, at Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Hill was married to Miss Evelyn Stegall, also a native of Honey Grove, a daughter of J.Q. and Virginia (Moore) Stegall, of Scotch-Irish descent, but born and reared in Tennessee. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Harold, Austin and Carl. Jesse W. Hill, the father of our subject, preceded his son to California where he purchased 171 acres of grain land; later 121 acres was sold to Chas. H. Segerstrom who is developing it to vineyard known as the Hilldale Vineyard of which Mr. Hill is the manager and where the most modern methods and equipment are used. In politics Mr. Hill is a Republican and fraternally is a member of the Ripon Mt. Horeb Lodge of Odd Fellows No. 58, and the Encampment of Modesto. He is numbered among the thoroughly practical and successful fruit-growers of San Joaquin County, and commands the uniform confidence and respect of the business community in which he makes his home and he can be counted upon to support all measures for the advancement of the Ripon district.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
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
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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