September 24, 1889

Daniel Harvey Hill, who was a Confederate general, professor, and president of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville (Washington County), died at the age of sixty-eight. Hill began his military career at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1838. He resigned his commission in 1849 and began teaching mathematics at Washington College in Virginia. He later taught math at Davidson University, where he published the textbook Elements of Algebra, which was used in Southern schools. After the Civil War, he entered the publishing industry. In 1877, Hill was approached to become president of what was then Arkansas Industrial University in Fayetteville.