Background
Hill was born in Ogden, Utah Territory and was raised on a farm in Springville, Utah.
Hill was born in Ogden, Utah Territory and was raised on a farm in Springville, Utah.
Brigham Young University. Cornell University; Utah State University.
Hill obtained a Bachelor of Surgery degree from Brigham Young University in 1907, a Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree from the Utah State Agricultural College in 1908, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University in 1912. After his graduation from Cornell, Hill became the director of the School of Agriculture at Utah State University. In 1934, he became the second assistant to George Doctorate. Pyper, the general superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union.
In 1943, when Milton Bennion succeeded Pyper, Hill became Bennion"s first assistant.
In 1949, Hill succeeded Bennion and became the seventh general superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union, a position he held until 1966, when he was succeeded by David Lawrence Hill"s oldest son, George R. Hill III, was a general authority of the church between 1987 and 1992. Hill died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He had also become a member of the general board of the Deseret Sunday School Union in 1925.