Everett Gleason Hill, who for twenty-three yours has been engaged in newspaper work in Connecticut, was born April 14, 1867, at Madison, this state, a son of Charles Washington and Frances Jane (Foster) Hill. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of John Hill, who was born in Northamptonshire. England, and in 1654 emigrated to East Guilford, Connecticut, where he passed away June 8, 1689. His son, James Mill, born in East Guilford, there died in March, 1715. Me was the father of John Mill, who was born in East Guilford, December 18, 1694, and died in his native city February 15, 1746. John Hill, who was the third of the name in America and the ancestor of Everett G. Hill in the fourth generation, was born at East Guilford, February 23, 1721, and there died July 23, 1786. His son, Abraham Hill, born in East Guilford, May 26, 1763, passed away at Madison, Connecticut, September 1, 1840. He was the father of Pardon Hill, who was born in East Guilford, December 18, 1786, and died in Madison, December 20, 1848. His son, Charles Washington Hill, father of E. G. Hill, was born in East Guilford, November 24, 1819 and passed away in Madison, January 21, 1881. He spent his entire life in Madison and devoted his attention to teaching in the common schools and to farming, For about twenty years he was collector of the town taxes and was prominent and active in community affairs. His wife was born in Madison the year it became a separate town and received its name. Her father was a sea captain in the days when Madison was a port. The death of Mrs. Frances J. Hill occurred in 1903, she having survived her husband for twenty-two years.
     Everett Gleason Hill had a common school education in Madison and was graduated from the Hand high school with the class of 1888. He prepared for college at the Morgan, school in Clinton and completed his course there with the class of 1890. Matriculating in Yale as a student in the classical department with the class of 1894, he left college through financial necessity in the middle of his senior year to take up teaching. He had, before fitting for college, taught a year in the Center district school of Madison in 1887, in connection with his last year's studies in the Hand high school. He afterward spent two seasons as a teacher in the evening schools of New Haven while in college. Leaving college, he was for two years teacher in the Northwest district school of Hamden, Connecticut. In the fall of 1895 he took up newspaper work as a reporter on New Haven papers and afterward became a reporter on the Bridgeport (Conn.) News.  In 1896 he accepted the position of managing editor of the Naugatuck (Conn.) News and the following year became acting city editor of the Waterbury (Conn.) American. In 1899 he was telegraph editor and editorial writer of the New London Day and from 1900 until 1904 was managing editor of the New London Telegraph. He devoted the years from 1905 to 1907 to the Middletown (Conn.) Tribune as its publisher and in the hitter year became editor of the New Haven Register, a position which he occupied for a decade. Since 1917 he has been an editorial writer on the Hartford (Conn.) Times and thus through all the intervening years he has become widely known in newspaper circles, being today regarded as one of the leading journalists in Connecticut. He was for five years, from 1910 to 1914, president of the Connecticut Editorial Association.
          On the 2d of September, 1894, in New Haven, Mr. Hill was married to Miss Emily Mabel Paulmier, a daughter of Thomas Bartlett and Mary Gertrude (Prentiss) Paulmier. Mrs. Hill was born at Upper Red Hook in Dutchess county, New York. Her father was of French Huguenot stock, while her mother belonged to the old Prentiss family of New England, of which Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, the writer, and Seargent Smith Prentiss, the orator, were members. To Mr. and Mrs. Hill have been born four children: Marion Mabel, Esther Gertrude, Ruth Alice and Carlton Everett. Marion M. having graduated from New Haven high school and the State Normal Training School at New Haven, is teaching.
     In politics Mr. Hill is a republican but has always believed that there are other parties and other views worthy of consideration and that the rule of the majority is right and that the choice of the majority is entitled to his loyalty. He is not a club or fraternity man, his interests centering in his business, his home and his church. He is a Congregationalist in faith, having membership in Plymouth church of New Haven for a long period but is now a member of the Immanuel Congregational church of Hartford. In October, 1917, he was a delegate to the National Council of the Congregational Churches at Columbus, Ohio.