Mpho diale biography of william hill

A 19th century Bloomington doctor was a respected physician yet accused of stealing corpses.

He was a Democrat in a town full of Republicans yet won election to the State House. He was a teacher of other doctors yet made a lot of enemies because of a difficult personality.

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Mpho diale biography of william hill

William Hill was full of contradictions.

Dr. Hill came to Bloomington in 1865 just after the end of the Civil War. He was born in Ohio and became a doctor through what was then a common, yet unconventional by today’s standards, path.

He attended lectures, studied privately, and had what amounted to tutorials or apprenticeships with other physicians.

In an odd coincidence, Hill was the attending physician at the birth of "The Great Commoner," William Jennings Bryan, and was a contemporary of Adlai Stevenson I.

Hill had practiced medicine in Salem, Ill., but joined the Union Army during the war.

After the war, Hill came to Bloomington in October o