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James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad director. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest.
2 avr. 2014 · James J. Hill was a railroad executive who came from an impoverished childhood to found his own company in 1866. He would eventually helm the Great Northern Railway Company, which was...
According to biographer Albro Martin, James J. Hill was "the last and greatest American railroad leader in the heroic era." The native Canadian's name became synonymous with...
After amassing a personal fortune estimated at $63 million and over $200 million in related assets, James J. Hill died in his Summit Avenue home on May 29, 1916, one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures of America’s Gilded Age.
James J. Hill was a Canadian-born visionary who built not only a railroad linking the upper Midwest of the United States with the Pacific Ocean, but he helped populate the region with farmers recruited from Scandinavia.
21 févr. 2008 · James Jerome Hill, pionnier du transport public et magnat du chemin de fer (Rockwood, Haut-Canada, 16 sept. 1838 -- St. Paul, Minn., 29 mai 1916). En 1856, Hill s'installe à St. Paul. Parmi ses nombreuses entreprises commerciales, on note la Red River Transportation Co.
18 mars 2007 · James J. Hill, nicknamed the Empire Builder, embodied the archetypal American story of success, rising from poor dock clerk to multimillionaire railroad magnate. In time, Hill had gained control of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and the Burlington railroads.
