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HILL WAS MASTER
RAILROAD MAN
First to See Possibilities In
the Great Northwest.
HE MASTERED ALL SUBJECTS
Entered Railroad Bueineee In 1875 and
8oon Became One of the Mott Notable
Financier* In All the Country—Hit
First Work Wat In a Steamahip
Office.
James Jerome Hill, the (treat builder j
of railroads. Is sometimes likened to a
lion In hnance, but it Is more descrip
tive to sixatk of him as a Scotch-Irish
man. Of tliut strong and contentious
race of Scots who settled in north Ire
land and have ever since been a 1*0
ple distinct both from the men of Scot
land and from those of Ireland, he
came to this country at an early age.
He has displayed throughout his life
the shrewdness, the will power, the
brain power and the fighting power
that were his only birthright, and they
carried him all the way from a Ca
nadian country cottage to a sort of
kingship in the railroad world, where
with thousands of men under his or
ders, none over him, and millions of
others dependent more or less upon
his ably run lines and the traffic that
they carry he spent the latter part of
his life, l-'or several years before his
recent death, however, he intrusted
his business cares to his sous.
One of the striking things about Hill
has been courage. He showed that
when as a young lad he left ills coun
try home with $10, borrowed, to go to
the States and make ills fortune. It
was the kind "f courage that not ouly
dares to risk, but dares to form great
hopes.
A domineering intellect that Insisted
on grasping and mastering any sub
ject that came Ix-fore it was another of
Hill’s lifelong traits. He employed the
intellect to study the northw'est like a
book and learn It by heart. He also
studied railroading and learned that
business in the same way. Then he
put the two knowledges together and
by means of the combination created
in twenty years a railroad system that
built up a whole section of the coun
try and surprised the great eastern
capitalists, who had meanwhile been
sitting down and planning theoretical
development.
His Romantic Marriage.
11 HU! came Into the world with a
■ l strong dash of sentiment in him and
j never quite lost it. His marriage was
" i a romantic one, and when he quit the
I St. 1‘aul home that he had lived in for
j many years and raised a family in he
had the house torn down, for he said
i he would not sell his associations to
| anybody.
Hill was born at Guelph, Ontario, in
1838 on a little country place. He went
| to a local academy for awhile. One
day, it is said, a stranger stopped at
1 the Hills' house for dinner. Young
Hill carried the stranger's horse a pail
of water. In return by way of an in- j
expensive reward the stranger gave the
hoy a newspaper, in which there hap
pened to he an account of the great
demand for laboring men out in Min
nesota. It was upon this Information
that Hill acted when he borrowed $10
of a neighitoring farmer. The money
took him as far as Syracuse. From
there he worked his way west until he
reached St Paul. He stayed in St.
Paul ever since.
From 1850 to 1865 Hill put in eight or
nine hard years of work in a steamboat
office. Even that was a rise. He had
begun as a wharf laborer. But in 1805
he rose further, setting up in business
as the agent of the Northwestern Pack
et company. In 1870 he formed a line
of ills own, the Red River Transporta
tion company, which ran a vessel on the ]
Red River of the North, opening up new j
territory and bringing back cargoes of
furs. At the same time he engaged
in Mississippi shipping and carried
coal into St. Paul, where many
years he owned the leading coal yards.
With all these other ventures taking
up his early business years. Hill was
nearly forty years old before he went ;
Into the railroad business—an odd fact I
in view of his lifelong distaste for rail
road men of over thirty-five.
Hill's sentimentality has been called
almost poetic. It came near the poetic
when In those early years he spoke
once of the great northwest. It was
once when he hud just seen the
country along the Red river. The
tracks of the rarely used wagon trail
were covered, he noticed, with much
taller grass than the plains about. It
was very likely owing to the passage
of beasts along the trail. But Hill saw
in the phenomenon a prophecy. “It is
God's promise of a fruitful empire.”
he said.
The woman whom Hill married he is j
said to have met when she was a din- j
ing room girl In a St. Paul hotel, back
in the early days. She was of the Irish*
race and a Roman Catholic, and so the
two were far apart In such matters. It |
made no difference. They were mar- |
rled, and Mrs. Hill rose in life with her
husband. Neither changed religion.
Hill’s entry into railroads came
around 1875. At that time he acquired
a bankrupt fifty mile line of newly
built track running from St Paul to St.
Cloud. He thought that he could make
the line profitable. He backed his opin
ion with characteristic courage. It wa»
a long time before be could obtain the
necessary financial support.
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