Henry Barker Hill was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on April 27, 1849, the son of the Reverend Thomas Hill, president of Antioch College and Harvard.

[1] He graduated from Harvard in 1869, then studied in Berlin under A. W. Hofmann.

Upon his return, he became assistant in chemistry at Harvard, working alongside Charles Loring Jackson under professor Josiah Parsons Cooke.

[2] He died at his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts on April 6, 1903.

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