Elijah Clarence Hills
Elijah Clarence Hills (July 2, 1867 Apr. 21, 1932), professor and philologist, was born in Arlington, Illinois, to Elijah Justin Hills and Mary Eleanor Larkin Hills. At a young age, his family moved to Tampa, Florida, where he acquired his early and intimate knowledge of the Spanish language. (Morley, 314) In 1892, Hills graduated from Cornell University, where he was a teaching fellow for one year before spending a year abroad in Paris. In 1896, he joined the faculty of Rollins College in...

