As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental ...

When railroad millionaire James J. Hill last visited Vancouver in October 1911, he’d already completed the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, a joint venture of his Great Northern and Northern ...

A Vancouver Weekly illustration shows Mayor E.G. Crawford introducing “Miss Vancouver” to millionaire railroader James J. Hill during his 1905 visit to the city. Before his October arrival, Hill had ...

Seventeen-year-old Canadian immigrant James J. Hill arrives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Working song the waterfront, he immerses himself in the Mississippi River trade and, within ten years, starts his ...

Hill faces striking workers and Union President Eugene Debs. Hill faces striking workers and Union President Eugene Debs. With the help of JP Morgan, Hill adds the Northern Pacific to his empire.

Many know James J. Hill as a railroad baron, but he was also an avid art collector. When Hill’s St. Paul mansion was completed in 1891, Hill built a spacious, two-story, skylighted art gallery to hold ...