Alice Stewart Hill

In 1852, the family moved to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where her father established a woolen mill and farms to raise crop seed.

[3][b] Her younger sister, Marcia Stewart, born in 1855,[3] was the wife of Judge Joseph Church Helm.

[3] Hill showed an interest in art at a young age and submitted her works at local Wisconsin venues, where she won prizes.

[3] She traveled locally up Pikes Peak and made longer treks to La Veta Pass, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and Sierra Blanca to gather flower specimens.

It is well known that the flora of the Rocky Mountains is distinct in genus and species from that east of the Mississippi.The country's leading botanist, Professor Asa Gray of Harvard College, placed a large order for her works of Colorado flowers.

[7] She illustrated for a number of authors from Colorado Springs, including Susan Teel Dunbar's story "Anemones" and other works.

[2] She created illustrations for Susan Coolidge, the pen name for Sarah Chauncey Woolsey entitled Her Garden.

It was written following the death of her friend, Helen Hunt Jackson, about her favorite flower-filled place on Cheyenne Mountain.

[12][13] Her etchings of wildflowers appear in a section entitled "Colorado Wild Flowers" in the book Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West.

In Colorado, he dealt in real estate, mining, and partnered with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, Judge Joseph Helm.