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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ Robert C. Hill

1877-1878

Robert Crosby Hill, a banker and a Past Master of Whidby
Island Lodge, No. 15, at Coupeville, was elected Grand Master
in 1877. He was born at Hatboro, PA, September 14, 1829, came
to San Francisco in 1850 and joined his brothers in Coupeville
in 1853. He fought in the Indian War of 1855-56.

He served as probate judge and auditor of Island County and as
clerk of the U.S. District Court for 12 years. He entered the
banking business in Port Townsend in 1881 and remained in it
until shortly before his death there May 10, 1916. He was made
a Mason in Whidby Island Lodge in 1869, and served it as
Treasurer, Secretary and Master.