James J. Hill
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title:
James J. Hill
text:
James Jerome Hill 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 the Pacific Northwest in the United States. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as "The Empire Builder", and died in 1916 with a fortune of about 63 million dollars. His
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American railroad promoter and financier (1838–1916)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Hill
date created:
2002-04-27T20:16:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T20:26:20Z
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