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Definition of James Jerome Hill
1. Noun. United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916).
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Literary usage of James Jerome Hill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"... AN EMPIRE BUILDER James Jerome Hill OUT from the edge of the Canadian wilderness
in 1856 traveled a boy of eighteen, with little money, but with great ..."
2. The Historical Register ... Illustrated with Portrait Plates by Edwin Charles Hill (1919)
"James Jerome Hill AMES JEROME HILL was born near Guelph, in Wellington County,
Ontario, Canada, September 16th, 1838, son of James and Anna (Dunbar) HUl. ..."
3. Heroes of Progress: Stories of Sucessful Americans by Eva March Tappan (1921)
"... James Jerome Hill BUILDER OF RAILROADS 1838-1916 1890, consolidation of the St.
Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railroad with the Great Northern JAMES ..."
4. Americans by Adoption: Brief Biographies of Great Citizens Born in Foreign Lands by Joseph Husband (1920)
"All this was done by a poor Canadian boy, born in a log-cabin at the edge of the
forest in the Province of Ontario, in the year 1837. James Jerome Hill was ..."
5. 130 Pen Pictures of Live Men by Orlando Oscar Stealey (1910)
"Few people would know him as James Jerome Hill; everybody knows, or knows of,
him as James J. Hill, but from the western extremity of Lake Superior to the ..."
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