Red Hill can lay claim to a native son who was elected to Montgomery County’s highest post. Local insurance man, Forrest Henry, was elected to a four-year term at the County Seat in 1956. One year before that, he was appointed by then Governor George Leader to the post of Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the Commonwealth.

Many borough services began in the ten years after incorporation. The borough established a fire department in 1904 and by 1910, an electric and water service. The Red Hill Electric Company Ltd. offered residents the privilege of electric light installation in their homes. Up until 1923, the company’s profits were capped at 4% with revenue above that being returned to the borough. The company put up 36 street lights and had 23 homes wired for electricity in time for a celebration on August 26, 1910 thus ushering in the dawn of electrical service for the borough. The company was short-lived. In 1923, The Pennsburg Electric Light Company assumed control, and later, that year, sold out to the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company.

Planning to provide a water supply for the town, the council purchased a 16-acre farm in Douglass Township, Montgomery County in 1907. They intended to develop a supply from the farm’s overflowing springs. It was never used for that purpose and eventually sold. In 1909, the borough purchased a 71-acre tract for $4,500. This site is about 9 miles north of Red Hill in Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County. An agreement with the Pennsburg Water Company in 1911 provided that it pipe water to Red Hill. A stock company was formed to lay pipeline and install distribution facilities in town. As with the electric company, profits were capped at 4% with the revenue above that being returned to the borough. In 1923, when the Red Hill Electric Light Company was sold, the $16,000 realized from the sale was used towards the purchase of the Red Hill Water Company in 1924. The remainder of the $35,000 asking price was raised through the sale of bonds. The first Red Hill Water Commission consisted of Lucian B. Miller, John P. Kline, and Oswin D. Reiter.