Posted on: Monterey County Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/Monterey?read=273 Surname: HILL, PECK, DICKENSON ------------------------- I have a printed copy of the biograpy of "Hon. W. J. HILL" printed in "Biographical Notices of Residents" in "History of Monterey County, California, 1881". Perhaps this biography is familiar to our host. Per the biography: "W. J. HILL is the editor and proprietor of the Salinas Index, and present State Senator from the Sixth Senatorial District, embracing Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties. He is of Scotch parentage, and was born on the farm of his father, John HILL, near Prescott, Canada West, in the year 1840. He is the eldest of 10 sons and 3 daughters, all of whom, together with his parents are still alive. He came to California by water in 1862, arriving in San Francisco in April of that year. He went to the Cariboo (B.C.) mines and penetrated the wilds of Alaska the same summer, returning to California in the fall." "...his wife being Miss Belle PECK, the first child of American parents born at Stockton...whose grandfather, the late Col. G. D. DICKENSON, in 1847, erected in the town of Monterey the first brick house ever built in California." "They have one child, a bright little boy of seven summers..." I will send a copy to anyone who gives me their snail mail address to mail it to.