Much of the history and personal notes I have of the Hill family come from my Uncle Scott - who wrote me when I began to diligently pursue genealogy: "Should you come across any family history hold on to it."

As transcribed by Scott Hill:

"For the record, I was born at Vicksburg in 1902, lived thru the Chicago experience, very much enjoyed the Nevada years and the summers working in the mountains. With my EE degree in 1923 I went east and opent the working years until retirement in 1966 with General Electric. I was working in Schenectady when I married Mary Elizabeth Dietrich, Smith 1921. We lived many places-- My work began with "Test", moved to straight engineering, and then in the direction of managment. 

In the New York years I was involved in many of the interesting power and industrial developments of that period from 1928 thru to 1945, working on the planning for the then new high voltage lines around the country, the new ideas on distribution systems, and all the protection that went with them. 

This was the.time of great changes in steam power stations and the New York area had some of the largest and most novel ones then being designed-- the "isolated phase", the "metal-clad" and other ideas in switch-gear. Industrial plants, the Brooklyn Navy Yard in, the war years, protection for the electfified New York Central RR, the electrification of the Lackawanna RR---all these I had some part in. Since technology was changing rapidly and I had the benefit of working closely with leading engineers in Schenectady for some years I brot into the field a level of technical competence which the older engineers lacked and which they were eager to utilize. We had many bad power failures and I was some-thing of a theoretical trouble shooter on these such as break-downs at Hell Gate, Hartford, Rochester. 

Lightning was more of a problem than recently and under Peek's direction I handled many of these questions and accidents. During the Great New England hurricane of Sept 1938 which left 600 dead and tens of millions of dollars in damages our house survived but not the trees around us. All of Long Island was without power. because the tidal wave which followed shut down all stations. I went to the Glenwood station and stayed for 3 days and nights until all the team got that running again.

This is not the place to d-etail other work, but it included working with a. steel mill in Buffalo, also jet engines just introduced at Bell Aircraft, then as vice president in charge of engineering at Locke Insulator, Baltimore, and on to application engineer at Pittsfield before heading the engineering recruiting work for General Electric at Schenecedy and later New York.

Partly becasue of helping organize a new sort of engineering society which opened up doors for younger people, namely the AIEE Bower Group in New York of which I was the first full time chairman, I began engineering society work along with the regular company work. 

In the 1959's I had the experience of working with leading people in electric engineering'as vice-president of the American Institute for Electrical Engineers. Later I was active in ECPD (Engineers Council for Professional Development) first on the board, then vice president, and later president for two years. Among other things this was the ace crediting organization for all of engineering, and this took met, along with my regular work into colleges all over the country.

As a result of this I was asked, following my retirement; in 1966 to take on the job of Executive Secretary of ECPD which I did until I could find a replacement.

Community work, church boards, the out of doors and gardens have consumed much time since 1968. Travel has been one of our interests, following an early trip to Europe, since then the around the world trip of 1966, the middle east in 1967, Ireland for talks, South America in 1968, the Iron Curtain countries in 1970, a swing around Africa in 1971, Western Europe by car in 1972, and north Africa and Sicily and Corsica in 1974 have given us an insight into much of the rest of this fascinating world."

W. Scott Hill -March 1974