San Diego County
Biographies
PROF. J. HILL
instructor of vocal and instrumental music,
San Diego, was born at San Antonio, Texas, in 1852; his father was a
school-teacher and his mother a teacher of music. Professor Hill began his
studies at the age of five years, both in music and the classics. He studied at
the university at the city of Mexico and graduated at the Gonzales College, at
Georgetown, Texas. In 1871 he went to New Orleans and for two years studied
music with private teachers at the New Orleans Conservatory. From 1872 to 1876
he was principal of the music department of the Gonzales College; he then
studied one year with professors Giprecht and Gottschalk; from 1877-’80 he was
musical director of Goliad college from 1880 to 1883, of the Southwestern
University, commencing with eleven pupils, but before leaving had over 100. He
then spent eight years in travel and study, and in 1888 came to San Diego,
opening rooms at the corner of Fourth and D streets, and teaching music under
the auspices of the College of Fine Arts, which is under the management of the
University of California, the Conservatory of Music being a department of the
college. Professor Hill also has charge of the musical department of the
“College of Letters" at Pacific Beach. He makes a specialty of the piano, and in
the conservatory averages about twenty-five pupils.
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 383 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben
MARTINEZ CHICK
Among the gun sportsmen of Southern
California, the subject of this sketch stands out with great prominence. He is a
native of California and was born in San Joaquin valley, August 22, 1858. His
early life was passed on the farm of his father, leaving home at the age of
twenty years and coming to San Diego. Hunting has been his principal amusement,
until he has become very skillful with the gun. In April, 1887, he sought a
match with Co. Carver, who is famed for skillful shooting, and Mr. Chick won the
match, killing ninety-one live birds out of 100, while Mr. Carver killed but
ninety. At the State Sportsmen’s Association meeting at San Jose, Mr. Chick made
the best average on blue rock and live birds, and won the prize. In blue rock
shooting, he broke forty-nine out of fifty in singles and forty-four out of
fifty in double rise. In sweepstake tournament in 1888, at Riverside, he made
over seventy-five shots at blue rocks without making a miss.
Mr. Chick was married in San Diego in March, 1879, to Miss Cornelia Higgins a
native of California.
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 123 Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben