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On November 2, 1848, he married Isabella Morrison, who was the daughter of [[Robert Hall Morrison]], a Presbyterian minister and the first president of [[Davidson College]], and through her mother, a niece of [[North Carolina]] Governor [[William Alexander Graham]]. They would have nine children in all. One son, [[Daniel Harvey Hill Jr.]], would serve as president of North Carolina State College (now [[North Carolina State University]]). Their youngest son, [[Joseph Morrison Hill|Joseph Morrison]], would preside as the Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1904 to 1909.
Another military man who would become a Confederate Lieutenant General, [[Rufus Clay Barringer]] of Kannapolis married Eugenia Morrison in 1854. They had two children, Paul and Anna. Eugenia died of typhoid fever in 1858.<ref>Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders, p 17</ref>
In July 1857, Isabella's younger sister, [[Mary Anna Jackson|Mary Anna]], married Professor [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas J. Jackson]] of the [[Virginia Military Institute]].{{r|bridges195605}} Hill and Jackson, who would later earn the nickname "Stonewall" as a Confederate officer, had crossed paths during the Mexican–American War and later developed a closer friendship when both men lived in [[Lexington, Virginia]] in the 1850s.<ref>Bridges, ''Lee's Maverick General,'' pp. 21-25, 277.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Justices, Judges and Officers of the Courts (1686-2006) |publisher=Arkansas Judiciary |url=https://courts.arkansas.gov/courts/supreme-court/historical-society/background-pg-2 |access-date=April 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406053115/https://courts.arkansas.gov/courts/supreme-court/historical-society/background-pg-2 |archive-date=April 6, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Also in 1857, Jackson endorsed ''Elements of Algebra'' as "superior to any other work with which I am acquainted on the same branch of science."{{r|bridges195605}}
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