CAPT.  GEORGE  W.  HILL,  farmer, P. O. Jeffersonville, was born September 22, 1835, in Gallia County, Ohio.  He is a son of Edward W. Hill, of Ohio, and was educated in his native county, Ohio, attending one term at the Gallia Academy.  He came to Wayne County in the fall of 1858, and settled in Lamard Township.  He is a member of the  Masonic fraternity, and member of the Grand Army of the Republic; also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He was in the late war from December 22, 1861, to May 2, 1865, in company G, Sixty-second Illinois Voluntary Infantry.  He wa promoted to First Lieutenant, and then to Captain.  He was married, May 16, 1858, in Meigs County, Ohio to Abigail Holland, of Meigs County, Ohio, whence she was born in June, 1835, by  whom our subject had three children, viz.: Fannie E., and Mary T. and Sarah E, twins.  Capt.  Hill owns 410 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock raising.  He pays considerable attention to the latter business.  He has kept the post office at Pleasant Grove for the last eleven years, but resigned it last fall.  Politics, Republican.