Background
Hill, Roscoe R. was born on February 22, 1880 in near Lilly, Illinois, United States. Son of Philip P. and Leona E. (Lindsey) Hill.
Hill, Roscoe R. was born on February 22, 1880 in near Lilly, Illinois, United States. Son of Philip P. and Leona E. (Lindsey) Hill.
Bachelor of Arts, Eureka (Illinois) College, 1900, Little Doctorate., 1935. Studied University of Chicago and Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1933.
Public school teacher, research worker, member history faculties various universities, 1900-1933. Assistant manuscript division Library of Congress, 1933-1935. Editor Journals of the Continental Congress for 1787-1789, 1933-1937.
Chief Classification Division National Archives, 1935-1941, Department of State Division, same, 1941-1946.
On special detail to Department of State, 1942-1944. Member Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural and Science Cooperative, 1944.
Technical adviser Committee on Archives, Habana, 1950. Consultant to California Historical Society, 1958.
Delaware to several international conferences on geografic, history, archival subjects.
Visitor archives of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Central America and Mexico, 1946. Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, 1948, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, also Uruguay, 1954. Visitor Mexico and Guatemala, International Ednl.
Exchange Service of Department of State, 1959.
Member Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural and Science Cooperative, 1944. Member national, international and state historical and archaeological societies. Member foreign history associations.
Member Christian (Disciples) Church.
Married Edith Irene Rowell, August 6, 1902. Children: Dorothy Irene (Mistress Carl Oelhaf, Junior.