Hill, Stephen P, Dd

Hill, Stephen P., D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, April 17, 1806. He was converted at the age of fourteen, began to preach at seventeen, studied at Waterville College, graduated from Brown University in 1829, and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1832, became pastor at Haverhill, Massachusetts, preached one winter (1833-34) near Charleston, S.C., was pastor thereafter in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., until 1861, and died in the latter city, September 15, 1884. He published several sermons and addresses, likewise some works on hymnology and for the young. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. s.v.