HILL, J[OHN] LEUBRIE

HILL, J[OHN] LEUBRIE. Songwriter (c1869 in New Orleans, Louisiana; 30 August 1916 in New York, New York). He obtained his early musical education in the public schools of Memphis, Tennessee. He began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio; about 1900 he moved to New York, where he soon established a reputation for himself as a songwriter, particularly in collaboration with Alex Rogers, with whom he had been associated since 1896. He wrote songs for and performed with the George Walker/Bert Williams…