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The current owner, James Jerome Hill III, is descended from railroad magnate James J. Hill. [24] His son Louis W. Hill bought considerable land in Pebble Beach, California when it was first developed by the Pacific Improvement Company with the intent to attract the wealthy. The family enjoyed the mild winters on the California Central Coast and ...
James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railway director. 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 the Pacific Northwest in the United States.
James Hill and his wife lived in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, with their five children in 1952, when they were taken hostage in their own house by three escaped convicts. [2] [3] During the ordeal, the family members were treated with dignity by the hostage-takers. [2] [4] The family members were held hostage for 19 hours. [3]
The third of James J. Hill and Mary Theresa (née 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.
The James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, was built by railroad magnate James J. Hill. The house, completed in 1891, is near the eastern end of Summit Avenue near the Cathedral of Saint Paul. The house, for its time, was very large and was the "showcase of St. Paul" until James J. Hill's death in 1916. [1]
James Hill (merchant) (c. 1826–1901), founder of James Hill & Sons, South Australian motor cycle dealers James J. Hill (James Jerome Hill, 1838–1916), Canadian-American railroad magnate James G. Hill (1841–1914), American architect
The Octavia Hill Birthplace House on the South Brink, Wisbech operated by the Octavia Hill Society contains many items belonging to the Hill family and there is a blue plaque to James and Caroline Hill on the former school building they built in 1837. [4]
Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 March 1911 – 16 March 2006) was a British Army officer, who served as commander of the 3rd Parachute Brigade, part of the 6th Airborne Division, during the Second World War.