Hill, Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Hill (1872-1959), American Minister, was an ordained clergy member of both the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church, who served in a number of churches in the Southern United States, Canada, and California. Hill was born in West Virginia, possibly in Nicholas County, which was where he met his future wife, Georgia Moffeit Summers. He taught for ten years before becoming an ordained minister in the West Virginia Conference. Hill also authored various newspaper articles and a book entitled, "Morning Star" which was a paraphrase of the Bible.  Part of his ministry was to the Pottowattomi Tribe in Kansas and the Osage and Cherokee Tribes in Oklahoma where he built schools and churches. Hill homesteaded in Canada and struck oil in Texas.  He finally retired to California after thirty-three years of service to the church.