Robert A. Bill, a pioneer Jamestown attorney, came to Carrington in 1897. He was born in New York State March 29, 1847, moved to Iowa in 1868 and to Wisconsin in 1876. He was graduated from the University of Michigan Law Department in 1876 and came to Jamestown, Dakota Territory in 1879. He practiced law there until he moved to Carrington in 1897 where on June 7, 1900 he married as his second wife Elizabeth Pinney. Besides his law practice he was Justice of Peace. He died October 27, 1909 and is buried at Jamestown. He was survived by his second wife and a daughter Lucy by his first wife who married Bill McLean of Pisek, North Dakota in 1909.

Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 220