Introduction

Biography

Melvin was the son of Ir­win Will­iam Hill and Mary A. Joy­ner, and hus­band of Eli­za­beth Jack­son.

He at­tend­ed Tay­lor Uni­ver­si­ty, Up­land, In­di­ana, where he was a mem­ber of the uni­ver­si­ty quar­tet and com­posed the Tay­lor school song. He gra­du­at­ed from Tay­lor in 1905, and re­ceived a Doc­tor of Di­vi­ni­ty de­gree there in 1920.

Hill served as a min­is­ter in the Ge­ne­see (now West­ern New York) Con­fer­ence of the Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church. As of 1921, he was pas­tor of Grace Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church in Corn­ing, New York.

Works

• The King’s Prais­es, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Praise Pub­lish­ing, 1907)
• The Old Sto­ry in Song Num­ber Two, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Praise Pub­lish­ing, 1908)
• The King’s Prais­es No. 2, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Praise Pub­lish­ing, 1910)
• The King’s Prais­es No. 3, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Praise Pub­lish­ing, 1912)