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Description: How Ben Hill Looks
Date: January 5 1877Newspaper published in: Athens, AL
Source: Madison Co Library, Huntsville
Page/Column: Page 4, Column 3
How Ben Hill Looks
Mr. Hill is now fifty-three years of age, is a Georgian by birth, and a man of fine personal presence, being above the average height, lithe and sinewy, without any appearance of leanness. He has a square face, a large, steady glancing, blue-gray eyes, a thin-lipped, firm set mouth, the upper lip cleanly shaven always, with a full, clipped beard. His hair is rather bristling and slightly wavy, standing up and aback from his forehead, and is, together with his whiskers, of a yellowish brown color, with a small bald spot on the crown. He possesses an exceedingly pleasant, almost musical voice, and is graceful and easy in gesticulation. The most characteristic point connected with his personal bearing in the peculiar manner in which he habitually carries his head, which he does by dropping his chin almost upon his breast, and looking up and out from under his eyebrows. This he does alike in walking and sitting, but when speaking he throws his head up and square. Mr. Hill is one of the most scholarly men in congress and is a great lover of books and home. He is never seen about the hotel lobbies or rolling around as the common run of congressmen do, and he is never absent from the house whenever any matter of importance is under discussion, for his peculiar attitude will always arrest the eye of the observer as he sits somewhere near the man who may be speaking, so that he hears clearly what is going on in the noisy chamber.