Thomas W. Hill
Thomas Warden Hill (January 9, 1817 - May 26, 1879) was an American farmer from Springfield, Wisconsin, who held a number of offices in local government. He served two one-year terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Walworth County: one term as a Freesoiler and a second term, ten years later, as a Republican. Background Thomas W. Hill was born in Swanton, Vermont, on January 9, 1817, and moved when he was five years old from Lewis, Essex County, New York, to elsewhere in the country. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his uncle, who he lived with until he was 21 years old. In the fall of 1838, he left for the frontier, traveling mostly on foot. He arrived in Geneva in the Wisconsin Territory on October 15 of that year, and found work in a store and in a gristmill on local a farm. By March 1839, he bought a plot of land in Hudson (now Lyons), which he retained for the rest of his life. He was elected to office for the first time in the 1840 elections of Geneva, when he was chosen as tax collector