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Sep 16, 1838 Guelph/Eramosa, Ontario, Canada Died on 29 May 1916 (aged 77)
American railroad promoter and financier
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About James J. Hill
- James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a Canadian-American railroad executive.
- 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 Pacific Northwest.
- 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".
