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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.




















































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