J. R. DILL, M.D.  The professional career of Doctor Dill covers a period of sixteen years, and all of it has been passed in the community of Rising Star, where he grew up from early childhood. He represents one of the older families of Eastland County, and his personal work has brought him the reputation of being one of the leading citizens of that locality.
   Dr. Drill was born at Eldorado, Arkansas, in 1875, son of John M. and Georgia (Bailey) Dill. Three years later, in 1878, the family moved to Texas, first locating at Brownwood and in 1884 moving to Eastland County. John M. Dill located on a farm in the extreme southwestern part of the county, and from there he moved to a farm five miles northwest of Rising Star. He has been one of the leading representatives of agricultural and livestock interests in the county for upwards of forty years, and still lives on his farm.
   Doctor Dill grew up as a country boy, attended the public schools at Rising Star, and finished his literary education in the Daniel Baker College at Brownwood. For nine years he taught school, an occupation that furnished him the means for his medical education. He pursued his medical studies in the Memphis Hospital Medical College, now the medical department of the University of Tennessee, graduating in 1906. Since graduation he has practiced at Rising Star, and has earned to a high degree the confidence and esteem of all, both as a professional man and as one of the public spirited citizens who have done much to make this one of the best towns of its size in the state. Doctor Dill is the present city health officer and member of the County, State and American Medical associations.
   He married Miss Gertrude Scarborough. She is a sister of Dallas Scarborough, a prominent citizen and mayor of Abilene, Texas. Doctor and Mrs. Dill have three children, Russell, Ike and Dallas.

from History of Texas, Fort Worth and the Texas Northwest Edition. B. B. Paddock, editor.  Lewis Publishing Co.  Chicago, 1922. p. 492.