Foundation records, 1934-2009. (bulk 1934-1996).

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Foundation records, 1934-2009. (bulk 1934-1996).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313870941

Minute books, subject files, project files (on microfiche), and microfilmed administrative files, annual reports, board agendas, executive directors' files, and other records of a St. Paul-based foundation established in 1934 by railroad executive Louis W. Hill that for many years awarded grants to a wide variety of programs in states from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest, and that later narrowed its focus to programs seeking to reduce poverty.

17.75 cubic feet (22 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7317875

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Hill Foundation Company (St. Paul, Minn.).

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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 ...

Taylor, John D.,

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Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation

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Saario, Terry Tinson.

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Northwest Area Foundation (U.S.)

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The Northwest Area Foundation makes grants to organizations and programs in eight states that were served by the former Great Northern Railway Company: Minnesota, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington. It was founded in 1934 by Great Northern chairman Louis W. Hill, Sr. as the Lexington Foundation, making grants for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes that were deemed to contribute to the public welfare. Funds constituting its capital ...

Patman, Wright, 1893-1976

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John William Wright Patman (1893-1976) was a U. S. Representative from Texas, serving from March 4, 1929 until his death on March 7, 1976. At various point in his congressional career, he was Chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business, the Joint Economic Committee, the Joint Committee on Defense Production, and the Committee on Banking and Currency. Before his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, he was an assistant county attorney in Cass County, Texas, a member of the Texas S...

Hill, Louis Warren, -1948

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Heckman, A. A. d.1994.

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Lexington Foundation

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