The passport office appears to have agreed as Hill was allowed to travel, eventually resulting in war-based pieces making up a large portion of his portfolio. On June 11, 1918, Hill applied for a passport, stating his purpose was to 'gather material for sketches.' His employer at the time, the New York Tribune, sent him with a note on company letterhead that insisted Hill was a unique talent whom the paper desperately needed to send abroad to capture the American war effort.
While in school, he was inducted as a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity on October 24, 1905.
Their only child, he would go on to graduate from Storm King School and Amherst College. William Hill was born in Binghamton, New York on January 19, 1887, to Marietta (Ely) and William Hill.
He is best known for his weekly full-page illustration series 'Among Us Mortals' published in the New York Tribune from 1916 to 1922, and for creating the most popular iteration of the optical illusion My Wife and My Mother-in-Law (1915). Hill (Janu– December 9, 1962) was an American cartoonist and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th-century.