The Journal-Record - Bicentennial Edition Thursday, July 1, 1976 Section D, Page 2 DR. ROBERT LEROY HILL WAS ONE OF THE FIRST DOCTORS TO LOCATE IN WINFIELD Dr. Robert Leroy Hill was born in Lamar County in the home of his maternal grandfather, Judge Leroy KENNEDY. Finishing high school at the age of fifteen, Dr. HILL entered the University of Tennessee Medical College at the age of eighteen and located in Winfield in the year of 1908 where he served the people of Winfield, and surrounding areas many years. In his earlier years, he told many interesting stories of how he travelled by horseback, later by horse and buggy, and then by car, and how he often made trips to Brilliant on the little Railroad engine or "Dinky" to visit the ill people in that section. After the days of those earlier methods of travel, Dr. HILL was able to carry on his medical practice and still have time for other activities which have been many and varied. He was a member of the official Board of the Methodist Church from 1901; Sunday School superintendent for twenty-nine years; member of the Board of Education for sixteen years and member of the County Board of Education for four years; represented Marion County in the State Legislature for two administrations, eight years; and during the period in the legislature, he was chairman of the Committee of Public Health, Public Welfare and a member of the committee of Education and Highways. He is credited with the introduction and passing of the law providing the aged in need and the physically handicapped. One of the last bills passed during his legislative service was the creation of the Department of Public Welfare. During his years as a general practitioner of Medicine, he also rendered surgical services in the homes of citizens and had served as Surgeon for the Frisco Railroad and Illinois Center(sic) since 1913, having also been president of the Surgeons of Frisco Employees Hospital Association in 1953. A shareholder in the citizens Bank of Winfield from the date of its organizations and charter in 1922 and he was active vice president of the bank from that time until 1937, when he was elected President of the bank and chairman of the Board of directors for the bank. He organized the HILL Drug Company in 1919 and served in the capacity of president of the company. He was elected president of the Winfield Quickfreeze, Inc. on December 19, 1948, and he served as president of the Winfield Hospital, Inc. and for several years, he served as president of the Marion County Medical Society. He was a Counselor of Alabama State Medical Association also. In other civic service, he was first and second president of the Kiwanis Club of Winfield and continued a member and chairman of the committee for Support of the Church and Kiwanis Education.