Richard T. Hill & the Hill Settle Tobacco Co

Richard T. Hill and the Hill Settle Tobacco Co

 

In a transcribe copy of John W. Cullimore’s (JWC) memoirs, he writes that he “…was absent from home [Washington, Kansas] about 6 years in St Louis where I was with the Hill ??? Tobacco Company, during the last year as manager of the plant.” JWC’s wife Courtenay M. Hill Cullimore was sister to Richard T. Hill (RTH).

 

“The Industries of Saint Louis: Her relations as a center of trade” published 1887 by J.W. Leonard reflects the following:

Page 182: “Hill-Settle Tobacco Company.-Richard T. Hill, President; Thomas T. Settle, Secretary and Treasurer; sole Manufacturers of concentrated Extract of Tobacco, and Extract of Tobacco Salve; 114 Pine street.-This business was established in 1879 for the purpose of manufacturing a patented ‘Concentrated Extract of Tobacco for Sheep dip.’  The firm was originally Hill, Slayden &Settle, and was afterwards incorporated as the Hill-Settle Tobacco Co., in 1882. The company are sole manufacturers and patentees of ‘Concentrated Extract of Tobacco for Sheep Dip,’ which they ship to all sheep raising portions of the country, but more largely to South Africa, South America, and Australia. In addition to the manufacture of the sheep dip they are also sole manufacturers of a ‘Tobacco Salve’ for cuts, wounds, etc., for man or beast, largely used by stockmen, express companies, transfer companies, and livery teaming companies. Another branch of their business is the manufacture of the celebrated ‘Tabacan,’ an infallible remedy for piles, a discovery of their own, and they also deal largely in tobacco stems, which they ship east and as far south as Florida, for fertilizing purposes. The extent of their business in this line is shown by the fact that they bought from Liggett & Myers alone 395,000 lbs. of tobacco stems last September. Their factory is situate on Theresa avenue and Missouri Pacific R. R., and is 50x150 feet in dimensions. Their office is located at 114 Pine street. Their trade is immense in its proportions, their sheep dip being far superior to any other compound manufactured for the same purpose, and their other articles equally meritorious for the purpose for which they are manufactured.  The success which has attended their efforts to introduce these goods has resulted from this excellence, combined with the thorough system pervading their management of their affairs, and fairness and liberality with which they conduct their dealings with their customers in all parts of the world.”

 

“Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 2”, By the American Chemical Society, reflects the following patent information:

“229,130. – Concentrated extract of tobacco. Richard T. Hill. The tobacco is extracted with water, and a little acid, at a temperature not exceeding 130 degrees F., and the extract afterwards evaporated to the consistency of a syrup.”

 

“Gould’s Business Directory, of the City of St. Louis for 1890” reflects:

Tobacco Manufacturers. Hill Settle Tobacco Co. 412 N. 2d St. Louis

 

“State Horticultural Society of Missouri, Annual Report, Volume 40” reflects:

“While planting, each young apple tree should have a liberal supply of tobacco dust placed about and over the roots and close up to the body, and a little earth covered over this tobacco….Tobacco dust can be obtained from the Hill-Settle Tobacco Co., of St. Louis, Mo…”

 

“The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 29” reflects:

Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. Total receipts and expenditures, all sources, for the year ending June 30, 1896.

Hill-Settle Tobacco Co, voucher 1007 paid in the amount of $3.25 for sundry supplies.

 

“The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 24” reflects:

Supreme Courts of Missouri, January 1-February 26, 1894. Cases Reported reflects Bauman v. Boeckeler et al. (Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1. Nov 27, 1893) Action by William Bauman, a minor, by John Bauman, his next friend, against Adolphus Boeckeler and the Hill-Settle Tobacco company, for personal injuries. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Reversed and remanded.

 

The “St. Louis City Directory for 1897” reflects Hill-Settle Tobacco Co, 322 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo.