Louis W. Hill papers, 1739-1995 (bulk 1887-1950).

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Louis W. Hill papers, 1739-1995 (bulk 1887-1950).

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 Company, and son of James J. Hill.

690 cu. ft. (1430 boxes, 101 folders, and 8 tubes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7564016

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Hill, Cortlandt, 1906-1978.

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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...

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...

Minnesota Log and Lumber Company (Oregon).

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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, Louis Warren, -1948

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Hill, James Jerome 1838-1916

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Railroad financier. From the description of Addresses, 1902-1916. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853289 Businessman and railroad executive, James J. Hill (1838-1916), was founder of the Great Northern Railway Company, which incorporated and extended an important transcontinental line, running from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington by 1893. Frequently called the "Empire Builder," Hill amassed a personal fortune through h...

Fort Union Development Company.

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Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)

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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...

Nichols, Edward Tatnall, 1852-1934.

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Shattuck Denn Mining Company.

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Cascadia Development and Production Company.

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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...

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 ...