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Thomas Hill

Known for practical, plainspoken books that aimed to help everyday readers handle social customs, business matters, and household questions, this 19th-century American writer turned useful information into popular reading.

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A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees With the Maruellous Nature, Propertie, and Gouernemente of Them: and the Necessarie Vses Both of Their Honie and Waxe, Seruing Diuersly, as Well in Inward as Outward Causes: Gathered Out of the Best Writers

A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees With the Maruellous Nature, Propertie, and Gouernemente of Them: and the Necessarie Vses Both of Their Honie and Waxe, Seruing Diuersly, as Well in Inward as Outward Causes: Gathered Out of the Best Writers

by Thomas Hill

About the author

Born in Vermont in 1832, Thomas Edie Hill became an American author best known for practical reference and self-help style books. The most successful of these was Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms, a widely known guide to etiquette, correspondence, and everyday business practices.

Available sources describe him as a writer who focused on useful information for ordinary readers rather than literary fame. His books gathered facts, forms, advice, and instructions in a style meant to be accessible and immediately helpful, which helps explain why his work found such a broad audience in its time.

He died in 1915. While a clear modern portrait was not readily confirmed from the sources reviewed here, his legacy rests in the popularity of the practical manuals and reference works he produced for American households and offices.