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WILLIAM HILL, physician and surgeon, Bloomington. Among the leading physicians of Bloomington, who, by a long and successful practice, have established a reputation for skill and ability as a physician, is Dr. William Hill, who is a native of Butler Co., Ohio; he was born March 12, 1829; read medicine at Indianapolis, Ind., under Dr. J. W. Merritt; in 1849, he attended lectures at LaPorte, Ind., and at Ann Arbor, Mich., during winter terms of 1851, 1852 and 1853; attended and graduated at Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1856; he practiced medicine in Middletown, Ind., in 1851, and, in 1853, removed to Louisville, Ill.; in 1856, he located at Salem, Ill., where he practiced ten years, including time spent in the United States army as Surgeon of 48th Ill. V. I., in 1861; in 1862, he resigned this post to accept the position of Surgeon of the 1st Missouri Light Artillery. At the close of the war, in 1866, he returned to Illinois and located at Bloomington, where he has since resided, engaging in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the McLean Co. Medical Society, of which he held the office of President in 1873; he has also written frequently for the different medical journals.