Dr. J.W. Hill Memorial - Portland, OR
N 45° 32.813 W 122° 33.959
10T E 533880 N 5043796
A memorial to Dr. J.W. Hill resides in Joseph Wood Hill Park, a park named after him, in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Waymark Code: WM996Y
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2010
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A plaque on the memorial includes the following information about Dr. Hill:
"Dr. J.W. Hill came to Oregon to manage Bishop Scott Grammar & Divinity School 1878. Introduced military training and changed name to Bishop Scott Academy 1887. Established Hill Military Academy in 1901."
The following additional information about Dr. J.W. Hill is from the 1911 book by Joseph Gaston titled "Portland, Oregon, its history and builders: in connection with the antecedent explorations, discoveries, and movements of the pioneers that selected the site for the great city of the Pacific, Volume 3":
"Joseph Wood Hill, M.D."
"Joseph Wood Hill, widely known as one of the distinguished educators of the northwest, having founded and promoted the Hill Military Academy of Portland, was born May 28, 1856, in Westport, Connecticut, a son of Joseph Wakeman and Ann R. Wood Hill."
"In 1879, he became lessee and headmaster of the old Bishop Scott grammar school, one of Portland's oldest landmarks, founded by Bishop B. Wistar Morris in 1870. Dr. Hill continued in that position until 1887, when the school became the Bishop Scott Academy, of which he served as principal until 1901. In the latter year, he severed his business connection with the school board of the Episcopal diocese or Oregon, controlling the Bishop Scott Academy, and founded the present Hill Military Academy, situated at No. 821 Marshall street."
Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link]
Location: Joseph Wood Hill Park
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