Hill family collection, 1739-1995 (bulk 1850-1960).

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Hill family collection, 1739-1995 (bulk 1850-1960).

Correspondence, biographical data, subject files, speeches, financial records, maps, publications, photographs, clippings and scrapbooks, and corporate records documenting the personal lives and business activities of the James J. Hill and Louis W. Hill families. The James J. Hill papers include correspondence, financial records, legal documents, diaries, blueprints, maps, publications, speeches, biographical data, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the personal and business dealings of St. Paul railroad baron and business magnate. The Louis W. Hill papers include correspondence, legal documents, financial records, photographs, printed materials, newspaper clippings, biographical data, and maps related to the personal life and wide ranging business ventures of the St. Paul businessman, president and chairman of the Great Northern Railway. The Mary T. Hill papers include diaries, letters, financial records, and other materials of the wife of James J. Hill, focusing largely on family life. The Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill papers include diaries, letters, photographs, genealogical data, and other materials of the wife of Louis W. Hill. The Maud Hill Schroll papers include photograph albums and scrapbooks of Maud Van Cortlandt Hill Dorcy Schroll, daughter of Louis W. Hill.

1396.5 cu. ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7137667

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Gavin, Gertrude Hill.

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Schroll, Maud Van Cortlandt Hill Dorcy, 1903-1997.

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Maud Van Cortlandt Hill, known frequently as Maudie, was born June 1, 1903 in St. Paul. She was the second child of Louis W. Hill, president and chairman of Great Northern Railway and son of railroad baron James J. Hill, and Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill. Maud and her three brothers, Louis Jr., Jerome, and Cortlandt, lived an extremely privileged life in their home on Summit Avenue in St. Paul; she attended school at Summit Academy and the family traveled extensively to their secon...

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Hill, Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor 1870-1961.

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Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor was born in Staten Island, New York, on April 11, 1870, to a wealthy family descended from early American colonists. She met Louis W. Hill, son of railroad baron James J. Hill, while living with her family in St. Paul, Minnesota. Maud began studying to become a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital in New York in 1900 but ended her schooling when she became ill with typhoid later that year. She became engaged to Louis Hill in April of 1901 and they married at the ...

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Red Mountain Consolidated Mining Company

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Chisholm, Archibald H. T., 1902-

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Kennedy, John S. (John Stewart), 1830-1909

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Hill, Walter J., 1885-

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Taft School

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Burke, Thomas, 1849-1925

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Judge Thomas Burke was for nearly fifty years a central figure in the political and economic life of Washington State and especially Seattle. Burke arrived in Seattle in 1875 to make his fortune. An astute lawyer and speculator, he acquired a reputation as a talented courtroom advocate. As the Democratic candidate for territorial delegate to Congress in 1880, Burke conducted a vigorous, though unsuccessful, campaign. In 1885 he and Seattle newcomer Daniel Gilman attracted Eastern capital and bui...

Hill, James Jerome 1838-1916

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The Rexford, Mont., station of the Great Northern Railway was established in 1903. It was closed in 1972 when the railroad was rerouted due to the flooding of the area behind the Libby Dam. The building was moved to Eureka where it became part of the Tobacco Valley Historical Village Museum. From the description of Records of the Rexford Station, Rexford, Mont., 1952-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962045 On 23 Feb. 1910 two Great Northern Railway trains--the "Seattle...

Montana Central Railway Company

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The company was incorporated in 1886 and built main and branch lines in the area between Great Falls and Butte totaling 250 miles. It was acquired by GN in 1907 and was dissolved in 1939. From the description of Corporate records, 1886-1964 (bulk 1886-1907). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313845036 ...

Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company (Great Falls, Mont.)

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St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company

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Nichols, Edward Tatnall, 1852-1934.

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Hill, Jerome

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Hill, a filmmaker, artist and philanthropist, maintained friendships and working relationships with a wide variety of artists and musicians both mainstream and experimental. His innovations in documentary film and in feature films have been influential. His papers also represent a unique vantage point into the families of railroad magnates James J. Hill and Louis W. Hill, his grandfather and father, respectively. James Jerome Hill was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Ma...

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Boeckmann, Rachel Hill, 1881-1967.

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Stephen, George, 1829-1921

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Lindley, Clara Hill, 1873-1947

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Kittson, Norman W. (Norman Wolfred), 1814-1888

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Hill, Louis Warren, -1948

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Fort Union Development Company.

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Hill, Mary Theresa Mehegan , 1846-1921.

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Mary Theresa Mehegan was born in New York City July 1, 1846, the daughter of recent Irish immigrants. Mary’s father, Timothy Mehegan, moved the family to St. Anthony in the newly organized Minnesota Territory in 1850. They quickly moved to St. Paul where Mr. Mehegan worked tailoring clothes and selling real estate until his death on Christmas Eve, 1854. Mary and her sister Eliza attended St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Paul and Mary worked as a waitress at the Merchant’s Hotel where she...

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Farrer, Gaspard.

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Tuck, Edward.

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Schrikkel, Louis, 1902-1995

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The third of James J. and Mary Mehegan Hill’s ten children, Louis Warren Hill was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1872. He, along with his older brother James, was schooled at home before attending Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Yale University. He began working for his father at the Great Northern Railway Company immediately after graduation and began pursuit of his own ultimately extremely successful investments in iron mining in northeastern Minnesota. Wh...

Hill, Cortlandt, 1906-1978.

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