City: Chattanooga
HILL, Jesse Thomas, consulting mining engineer; born Nashville, Tenn., March 18, 1850; son Robert Thomas and Katherine T. (Stout) HILL; paternal grandfather Thomas HILL, paternal grandmother Sallie (Wood) HILL; maternal grandfather Samuel Van Dyke STOUT; maternal grandmother Catherine Wilkins (Tannehill) STOUT; English and Dutch descent; educated public schools Nashville; studied law under private tutor; acquired knowledge of engineering by practice and private study; married Alice Brice WOODWARD, March 14, 1878; member Masons, Knights Templar, Shriner, affiliated Chattanooga; Mountain City Club, Chattanooga; Sons of American Revolution; National Geographic Society; American Institute of Mining Engineers; Assistant Deputy Clerk and Master of Chancery Court 1871; Mayor of Chattanooga 1878-79; Justice of the Peace 1894-1900; Manager of Tennessee State Coal Mines from date of opening, 1895, for four years; membership first local militia company organized in Chattanooga, of which he was Secretary and Treasurer; assisted in the organization of the following original organizations and corporations: Citico Furnace Company, the Etna Coal Company, the Soddy Coal Iron & Railway Company, the Chattanooga Stove Company, the Alpine Coal Company. The Chattanooga Library Association; admitted to bar 1876; member St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
