Background
He was born in Shepherds Town, Virginia in 1799 and moved to Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, in approximately 1818.
He was born in Shepherds Town, Virginia in 1799 and moved to Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, in approximately 1818.
He worked as a tailor from approximately 1818 and into the 1830s. He also worked as a bricklayer and builder from 1825 and into the 1840s. He also served in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
In approximately 1825, he built the Hill House (later known as Brown Pusey House), a Federal-style building in Elizabethtown.
In the 1840s, he began operating Hill House as a boarding house. Hill died of pneumonia in August 1859.
General George Armstrong Custer lived at the house from 1871 to 1873. A number of Hill"s works as a builder are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Works include (with attribution):
William Bland House, Kentucky 222, 2.5 mi.
West of Glendale, Glendale, Kentucky (Hill, John Y), NRHP-listed
Hill House (1825), aka Brown Pusey House Community Center, 128 North. Maine Saint, Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Hill, John Y), NRHP-listed
First Baptist Church, 112 West. Poplar Saint, Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Hill, John Y), NRHP-listed
McKinney-Helm House (1825), 218 West. Poplar Saint, Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Hill, John Y), NRHP-listed
Horatio Wintersmith House, 221 West. Poplar Saint, Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Hill, John Y), NRHP-listed.