$33,000 to the University for a library which was constructed on the campus of LSU on North Third Street in Baton Rouge and completed in 1903. The library was named the Hill Memorial Library in memory of John Hill, Jr. The donation of the library was sorely needed and of great importance to LSU, because the university previously had had to house its books in an old powder magazine. LSU moved to a new campus and a new library was constructed in the new campus and named the Hill Memorial Library. The original Hill Memorial Library became the State Library of Louisiana, however it was eventually pulled down and replaced with a newer library building on the same site. Death John Hill died suddenly in his office at Homestead Plantation on June 7, 1910, at the age of 86 years and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge. The First Presbyterian Church built a Sunday school annex behind its former sanctuary (no longer extant) at Florida and Fourth Street in 1911, which it named the Hill Memorial Annex. It was dedicated "To the Glory of God and Mr. and Mrs. John Hill."' References External links Chambers, Henry E. John Hill, In: A History of Louisiana, Vol. 2. New York: American Historical Society, Inc, 1925: pp. 120–121. Hill Memorial Library State Library of Louisiana 1824 births 1910 deaths American Calvinist and Reformed Christians American planters Louisiana State University people People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Scottish emigrants to the United States 19th-century Presbyterians People from West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Scottish philanthropists Burials at Magnolia Cemetery (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) American slave owners 19th-century British philanthropists