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See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
HILL, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES J . (1838– ), See also:American railway capitalist, was See also:born near See also:Guelph, See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the 16th of See also:September 1838, and was educated at Rockwood (Ont.) See also:Academy, a Quaker institution. In 1856 he settled in St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota. Abandoning, because of his See also:father's See also:death, his plans to study See also:medicine, he became a clerk in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of a See also:firm of See also:river steamboat agents and shippers, and later the See also:agent for a See also:line of river packets; he established about 187o transportation lines on the See also:Mississippi and on the Red River (of the See also:North). He effected a See also:traffic arrangement between the St Paul Pacific Railroad and his steamboat lines; and when the railway failed in 1873 for $27,000,000, Hill interested See also:Sir Donald A. 'See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith (See also:Lord Strathcona), See also:George See also:Stephen (Lord See also:Mount Stephen), and other See also:Canadian capitalists, in the road and in the See also:wheat See also:country of the Red River Valley; he got See also:control of the bonds (1878), foreclosed the See also:mortgage, reorganized the road as the St Paul, Minneapolis & See also:Manitoba, and began to extend the line, then only 380 M. See also:long, toward the Pacific; and in 1883 he became its See also:president. He was president of the See also:Great See also:Northern Railway (comprehending all his secondary lines) from 1893 to See also:April 1907, when he became chairman of its See also:board of See also:directors. In the See also:extension (1883–1893) of this railway westward to See also:Puget See also:Sound (whence it has See also:direct steamship connexions with See also:China and See also:Japan), the line was built by the See also:company itself, none of the See also:work being handled by contractors. Subsequently his See also:financial interests in American See also:railways caused See also:constant sensations in the stock-markets. The Hill interests obtained control not only of the Great-Northern See also:system, but of the Northern Pacific and the See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, and proposed the construction of another northern line to the Pacific See also:coast. Hill was the president of the Northern Securities Company, which in 1904 was declared by the See also:United States Supreme See also:Court to be in conflict with the See also:Sherman See also:Anti-See also:Trust See also:Law. (See Vol. 27, p. 733.) Among Hill's gifts to public institutions was one of $500,000 to the St. Paul Theological See also:Seminary (See also:Roman See also:Catholic).
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