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Edwin Conger Hill was born on April 23, 1884 in Aurora, Indiana, United States. He was the son of Harvey Boone Hill and Mary Conger.
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Edwin Conger Hill was born on April 23, 1884 in Aurora, Indiana, United States. He was the son of Harvey Boone Hill and Mary Conger.
Hill attended local public schools and was graduated from Indiana University in 1901. In a literature course at Indiana, Hill was excited at reading news essays from the New York Sun, assigned as models of English composition.
Impressed by the effectiveness of clear, terse prose, Hill determined to make journalism his career. He did postgraduate work at Butler College in Indianapolis and in 1901 held his first newspaper post, as a cub reporter on the Indianapolis Sentinel. He soon moved to the Indianapolis Journal at $15 a week. He also worked for a short period on the Indianapolis Press and served as correspondent for newspapers in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
His first major assignment was to report on the funeral of former President Benjamin Harrison. Another important early job was Hill's interview with the Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley, which he later described as "a memory like old lavender. " Although still reporting a capital city's news, Hill had his eye on New York City. With $100 in his pocket he applied, in 1904, at the office of the New York Sun, which at the time was the goal of countless aspiring journalists. Managing editor Chester S. Lord hired him as a space writer, but he did so well that he was soon made a regular reporter. When the empty Proctor Theater was damaged by fire, Hill wrote an imaginative account of the tragedy that might have happened if the auditorium had been filled with spectators. This original approach so pleased the Sun editors that they placed his story on the front page.
Hill quickly became one of the busiest of New York's news gatherers. Over the next few years he covered everything from human interest drama on the city streets to the exposure and prosecution of Tammany corruptionists. He was an eyewitness to the shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw. He left the Sun in 1923 to direct the Fox Film Corporation newsreels. He later joined the Fox studio as a scenario editor (1925 - 1926). But although he made a substantial contribution to the scope and quality of moving picture news, he returned to the Sun in 1927.
After five years at the Sun, Hill ventured into the new field of radio journalism with a program on news events. This assignment left him time to write a national syndicated column. His work was published by such diverse organizations as the Literary Digest and the Hearst chain. The name Edwin C. Hill was soon known from coast to coast. His deep, rich voice was ideal for radio, and Hill used it to transport his listeners to the scene he was describing.
During his radio career he worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System, the National Broadcasting Company, and the American Broadcasting Company. His popular programs included "Your News Parade" and "The Human Side of the News. " Hill's audience reached five million, phenomenal for the time. The notables that he interviewed in one medium or another in the 1920s and 1930s included Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, Benito Mussolini, Alfred E. Smith, and Emma Goldman.
His first book, The Iron Horse (1925), was a novel about the conquest of the American continent by the railroad builders. The American Scene (1933) and the Human Side of the News (1934) stemmed from his broadcasting experience.
Although he was a devoted New Yorker, Hill spent the winters of his later years in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he died.
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Hill was an Episcopalian.
Hill was a Republican. He developed an intense interest in politics--especially national nominating conventions and elections. In the process he became a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to him as a member of his "unofficial Cabinet. " He traveled with the president and wrote many columns about his whirlwind exploits. Hill won the esteem of Warren G. Harding, who as president paid him written tribute, and of Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he zealously promoted prior to his election as governor of New York.
Hill had deep, rich voice. Tall and handsome, he dressed fastidiously and customarily carried a walking stick.
Hill married Jane Gail, a motion picture actress, on July 29, 1922.