- E. F. HILLYER, Sec. 30; P.O. Beloit; was born in New Jersey,
August, 1811; son of Rev. Dr.
- HILLYER, a prominent minister of the Presbyterian Church
in Orange, N.J. He was from the old French Huguenot stock; he
died in 1841; his son, Edouard F. HILLYER, commenced the study
of law in 1832, and the practice in 1835, and in 1876, when he
retired, was one of the leading men in the profession in that
part of the State; also had an extensive practice in New York.
Mr. HILLYER was a member of the Legislature and chairman of the
Judiciary Committee; also Collector of the Port of Newark, under
Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, and, for awhile, under Lincoln.
Married, in 1839, Annie E. LINDSAY, daughter of John A. LINDSAY,
a merchant of Orange; have had six children - Edouard T. is now
engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business, Broadway, N.Y.;
Margaret, now living in Orange; Ann married John PILLOW, engaged
in nail manufacturing, in Montreal, Canada; William, Charlotte
and Sarah are in Turtle. Mr. HILLYER has a fine residence and
forty acres just outside of Beloit.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 805.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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