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It is believed that Hill continued to work for Curtiss and kept up his flying practice through 1914. In 1915 he was made an instructor at the new Curtiss School at Buffalo, New York. He remained there until the late fall of 1916 when he became a civilian instructor for the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, at Ashburn Field, Chicago, Illinois. This operation had begun October 28, 1916. During World War I he also served as a civilian instructor at Scott Field, Belleville, Illinois; Ellington Field, Houston, Texas; and Gerstner Field, Houston, Texas.  During that period he taught John Macready, Reed Chambers and General J. E. Fechet.
After the war Hill was stationed at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, for a short time; then the rejoined the Curtiss Company at Buffalo, New York, as a pilot in their sales department.
On August 22, 1919, Hill flew from Buffalo to Mineola, New York, 440 miles in four hours, ten minutes in an OX-powered Curtiss "Oriole" plane. On August 31[st] he carried actress Hope Eden as a passenger from Buffalo to Syracuse, New York in an "Oriole."
Hill continued publicity flying for the Curtiss sales department until October when he and two other Curtiss pilots, Walter Lees and Victor Vernon, were transferred to the Curtiss Pacific Northwest Distributor Branch at Portland, Oregon. Known as the Oregon, Washington and Idaho Airplane Company, it was one of many national distributor organizations established at that time as an extensive Curtiss sales effort. There Hill and his two colleagues flew both land and water planes throughout their three-state territory, demonstrating Curtiss planes, promoting

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The st of August 31st in the 3rd paragraph was written in blue pen, I wasn't sure how to transcribe it, so I put it in brackets.