Manuscripts Collection
James J. Hill was born on a farm in southern Ontario on September 16, 1838. His formal schooling ended at the age of 14 when his father died, and he worked as a store clerk and at other jobs in the towns of Rockwood and Guelph over the next three years.
Hill left Canada at age 17, visiting New York and Philadelphia and arriving by steamboat in St. Paul in the Minnesota Territory on July 21, 1856. His first jobs there were as a clerk and shipping agent for steamboat companies. He then began his own transport ventures, first building a warehouse on the St. Paul levee and then turning his sights northwest to the Red River Valley. He partnered with Norman Kittson in the Red River Transportation Company, which gained a monopoly on Red River steamboat traffic until 1878. In the same years Hill joined with Chauncy Griggs, George Acker, and E. N. Saunders to form fuel companies which grew to control a large portion of coal and wood trade in St. Paul.
Hill married Mary Theresa Mehegan, daughter of Irish immigrants, in 1867. Together they had ten children. The family lived in St. Paul, with additional homes in North Oaks, Minnesota, New York City, Paris, and Jekyl (known later as Jekyll) Island, Georgia.
Hill believed the future of transportation lay in railroads and in 1878 he joined with Kittson, John S. Kennedy, and Canadians Donald Smith and George Stephen in buying out the failing St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. Hill concentrated the following decade on extending this line, reorganized as the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, into western Minnesota, Dakota, Montana and the Pacific Northwest. The final spike of the railroad's transcontinental line was driven January 6, 1893.
Over the next twenty years Hill managed the rechristened Great Northern Railway and ventured into mining, timber, land, and livestock, as well as philanthropy and public speaking. His attempts to overtake and merge the Northern Pacific Railway with his own companies led to an antitrust suit by the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, that Hill eventually lost.
Though he officially retired in 1912 Hill maintained an active hand in his businesses until his death on May 29, 1916. His personal fortune at that time has been estimated at $63 million with $200 million in related assets, making Hill one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures of America’s Gilded Age.
These voluminous papers document in varying levels of detail numerous aspects of James J. Hill's public and private life. The types of records included in the papers are wide ranging. Incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial records of all types, legal documents, minutes and other corporate records, published material and clippings, reports, maps, blueprints, inventories, notes, and diaries are all found frequently in all series. The topics documented in the papers are equally vast. The development of transportation and railroads in particular, but also maritime transport and sailing, logging and lumbering, coal and mineral mining, development of agricultural techniques and livestock breeding, flour milling, townsite development, finance, and water power in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Oregon are all well represented, as are late 19th and early 20th-century business operations in general. Politics, especially during World War I, are also touched upon.
Hill's family life and leisure activities are documented in correspondence, personal financial records, and records related to his art collection, yacht Wacouta, fishing property on the St. John river in Quebec, Canada, and homes in St. Paul, New York, and elsewhere. Charitable ventures represented in the papers include records of St. Paul religious and educational institutions including the St. Paul Seminary, Visitation Convent, and House of the Good Shepherd.
Numerous business concerns are heavily documented in the papers. Multiple railroads are represented here, primarily the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, Great Northern Railway, and Montana Central Railway, as well as other transport companies like the Lake Minnetonka Navigation Company and Kootenai Railway and Navigation Company. Other documented businesses include early fuel and warehouse ventures in St. Paul, newspaper publishing companies, mining ventures in Iowa, Montana, and Washington including the Red Mountain Consolidated Mining Company and the Constance Mining Company, the flour milling Red River Roller Mills Company, the lumber and land company Mille Lacs Lumber Company, Montana's Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company. Other endeavors documented include Hill's experimental farms in Ramsey and Kittson Counties, work with the St. Paul Agricultural Association, frequent published speeches on a variety of topics, research into trade in Asia, and real estate ventures and other investments.
Numerous other authors in addition to Hill are represented in the papers, primarily acting as his agents in various businesses. Major secondary authors include John J. Toomey, E. T. Nichols, and Henry D. Minot.
The papers are organized into the following sections:
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
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M458: James J. Hill Letterpress Books. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1984-1985.
M675: Catalog to the James J. Hill Papers. Saint Paul: Dakota Microfilm Service, 1971.
mMicrofilm available for sale or interlibrary loan from the Minnesota Historical Society.
The originals of the letterpress books (313 volumes) that have been microfilmed are closed to general use. Please contact reference staff for more information.
The James J. Hill Papers are part of the Hill Family Collection.
Major portions of this collection were previously held at the James J. Hill Reference Library. These portions were transferred to the Minnesota Historical Society in March, 2008.
Accession number: 7931; 9721; 9754; 9885; 10,651; 10,843; 11,762; 15,401; 15,569; 16,137
Processed by: Duane Swanson, Jillian Odland, and Rich Arpi, September 2008-June 2010.
Digitized by: Patrick Blaine, Janet Christensen, and Lynette Westerlund, June 2010-September 2012.
Work on the Hill Family Collection was supported with funds granted by the Northwest Area Foundation, the Grotto Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.
Catalog ID numbers: 69800181; 1715513; 6668541
Catalog and calendars, principally to the general correspondence and letterbooks of James J. Hill, with occasionally references to other series of correspondence in the papers. The index is arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent and occasionally subject. It is not a complete index to every letter and each correspondent. Each index card references the date (or dates) of the letter(s) giving the name of the correspondent and, occasionally, a short description of the contents. The calendars contain chronologically-arranged cards for each item of correspondence from or to John S. Kennedy, George Stephen/Donald Smith (in one chronological sequence), Paris Gibson, and Edward T. Nichols.
The originals of the card index and calendars are available in the Weyerhaeuser Reading Room of the Minnesota Historical Society.
This calendar does not contain all the Paris Gibson letters in the general correspondence series. It contains only those letters received in a separate accession from Louis W. Hill, Jr., that was calendared and then interfiled in the general correspondence.
Compilations on the biography of James J. Hill, the genealogy of the Hill family, and histories of Hill's companies and home, created both during Hill's lifetime and throughout the 20th century. Additional printed features regarding the biography and history of James J. Hill are included in the Speeches and Writings series.
Diaries and memoranda books kept by James J. Hill during his first 25 years in St. Paul. The diary entries are short and undetailed, containing primarily business notations. Most of the books have accompanying transcriptions.
Series is comprised of a long series of correspondence both to and from James J. Hill, and also to and from his secretaries. The correspondence, which dates primarily 1880s-1916, is mainly concerning business matters but also some personal matters. The series also includes small sections of correspondence segregated by subject or author.
Catalog and calendars to the General Correspondence are available in the Weyerhaeuser Reading Room of the Minnesota Historical Society. This is not a complete index to every letter and each correspondent.
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Statement, by-laws, and circulars.
"Restricted" is the original file title; material is not currently under any use restrictions.
Reports on performance.
Correspondence of a land agent for Hill and for the Mille Lacs Lumber Company
Series is comprised of the office files of John J. Toomey, a long-time bookkeeper and private secretary to James J. Hill. Toomey seems to have held recent correspondence for a time before filing them into the main body of general correspondence. The correspondence in this series are the files he had not yet interfiled at the time of Hill's death.
The original letters are filed in the Louis W. Hill papers.
Includes some typescripts for originals that were interfiled with the
Louis W. Hill papers in 1963. Also includes post card of and brochures
issued by the college (ca. 1912), volume VIII, no. 2 of the
Includes some typescripts for originals were interfiled with the Louis W.
Hill papers in 1963. Also includes printed financial statements of the
college for the years 1913/1914 and 1914/1915; issues of the
Includes correspondence concerning disposition of lands in North Dakota.
Typescript of letter regarding whereabouts of records of the company.
Correspondence and occasional minutes of board meetings documenting Hill's financial interests.
The letterpress books reproduced in this microfilm edition consist largely of Hill's outgoing business and personal correspondence, 1866-1916. The books are organized into six subseries and reflect his involvement in a wide variety of activities in Minnesota, the upper midwest, the Pacific northwest, western Canada, Brazil, and Japan, as well as his relationship with prominent financiers and others in New York, Chicago, Boston, Canada, and Europe. Hill's voluminous incoming correspondence, financial records, and other documents are not included in this microfilm edition. If some parts of particular volumes are difficult to read, it is due to the poor condition of the original documents. Blank or illegible pages have not been filmed. Retakes of illegible frames in the personal and private, pre-railroad business, and railroads series are filmed on supplemental rolls at the end of each series.
Series P consists of James J. Hill's outgoing correspondence written to a wide variety of prominent individuals and organizations in Minnesota, elsewhere in the United States, in Canada, and in Europe. This series includes 31 volumes, spanning the years 1877 to his death in 1916. The books contain a wealth of material on Hill's personal and business affairs, including his interests in transportation, economic development, finance, politics, the use of natural resources, agronomy, colonization and settlement, immigration, Indian-white relations, art, and philanthropy.
Major correspondents include: Charles H. Benedict, Adolphus H. Bode, Charles A. Broadwater, Martin R. Brown, Hamilton Browne, Arthur W. Clark, J. Dolby, J. D. Farrell, Reuben B. Galusha, Weston Hammons, Robert H. Harrison, Louis W. Hill, William I. Kenna, Charles Q. Kerr, Norman W. Kittson, Darius Miller, Frank L. Moffett, Leslie P. Richardson, Daniel M. Robbins, William Secombe, George Stephen, William A. Stephens, Nicholas Terhune, William C. Toomey, Frank E. Ward, and H. B. Willis.
Eight volumes, 1891-1916, authored primarily by Hill in his New York office and while travelling.
Four letters, collected in one volume, which Hill wrote to Hanna, William McKinley's campaign manager, concerning the implications of the Republican's defeat of William Jennings Bryan and the Populists in the 1896 presidential campaign.
Includes pages as follows: Volume P-3: 1-376. Volume P-4: 453-483. Volume P-5: 8-20, 106-115, 195-216, 255-267, 326-328, 461-462. Volume P-6: 1-7, 257-263, and 326. Volume P-7: 14, 342-347, 384-390, 405-416. Volume P-8: 29 and 76. Volume P-9: 14, 130-132, 216-236, 298-330, 358-364, 418, and 441. Volume P-13: 838-840.
Series B consists of James J. Hill's outgoing correspondence related primarily to his business ventures prior to his direct involvement in the railroad industry. The subseries contains eight volumes, spanning the years 1866-1868, 1873, and 1875-1878. The correspondence is concerned largely with Hill's activities, often with one or more partners, in warehousing, fuel, and other business enterprises operating in St. Paul.
Major correspondents include: George S. Acker, Chauncy W. Griggs, Edward N. Saunders, North Western Fuel Company, and William Rhodes.
One volume of letters related to the operations of the warehousing partnership with Egbert S. Litchfield, 1866-1868, as well as a few May 1873 letters concerning its successor, Hill, Griggs & Company.
Five volumes detail the firm's activities in the wood and coal business, 1875-1878. Also included are letters authored by its successor, Hill, Saunders & Acker, and the North Western Fuel Company.
Two volumes of business correspondence.
Includes pages as follows: Volume B-2: 1-184, 233-235, 293-295. Volume B-3: 8-10, 47, 158-161, 194-197, 206-208. Volume B-4: 99-101 133, 252-277, 336-344, 354-360, 442, 452-454. Volume B-5: 2-29, 39, 69-98, 252-253, 295-319, 371-375, 461. Volume B-6: 1-147, 179-184, 281-427.
Includes pages as follows: 1-69, 91, 157-501.
Includes pages as follows: 1-490.
Series R consists of outgoing correspondence, telegrams, legal documents, and memoranda, generated in official railroad offices by James J. Hill and others. This series includes 37 volumes, 18771898, of the St. Paul & Pacific, the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba, the Great Northern, and the Canadian Pacific railroad companies. The books contain information regarding the construction and operation of these railroad companies, and related matters.
The series is divided into two parts, by author. Volumes R-1 through R-21 include correspondence authored almost entirely by James J. Hill and his secretaries; volumes R-22 through R-37 include correspondence and documents authored almost exclusively by persons other than James J. Hill.
Major correspondents include: John W. N. Abbott, Charles Anderson, Richard B. Angus, Samuel J. Beals, Elbridge H. Beckler, Charles H. Benedict, Adolphus H. Bode, Charles A. Broadwater, R. C. Burdick, Clark, Eller & How [law firm], John M. Egan, Jesse P. Farley, William H. Fisher, Reuben B. Galusha, William Harrison, H[arry?] C. Ives, S. E. Ives, Howard James, Arthur L. Jenks, Norman W. Kittson, Kittson & Hill, Bushrod W. Lott, Allen Manvel, Nelson D. Miller, Minneapolis Northwestern Railway Company, Henry D. Minot, Frank L. Moffett, Gen. S. Morison, James C. Morrison, William T. Reed, Leslie P. Richardson, C. B. Rockwood, William Secombe, Donald A. Smith, George Stephen, William A. Stephens, William C. VanHorn, I. C. Wade, Frank E. Ward, Charles A. Warren, and George B. Young.
Fourteen volumes of correspondence authored by Hill in his official capacities as general manager and as president.
Three volumes of correspondence authored by Hill in his official capacity as president.
One volume of correspondence authored by James J. Hill, Richard B. Angus, and George Stephen, 1881-1882.
Two volumes of correspondence, minutes, and other documents with principal authors Henry D. Minot, chairman, and Frank L. Moffett, secretary.
One volume of legal documents and memoranda, including lists of stockholders.
Includes pages as follows: Volume R-1: 187-193, 222-223, 262-266, 318-320, 390-419, 448-449. Volume R-2: 1-55, 76-92, 125-129, 258, 289-298, 315-335, 348-350, 370-399, 417-428, 504, 643-644, 670-671, 688. Volume R-3: 153-159, 234-240, 307, 675-676, 872-880, 962-966, 981-987. Volume R-4: 293-294, 558-559. Volume R-5: 44-49, 86-90, 164-176, 200-201, 284, 357-358, 478, 508-525, 536-548, 561-567, 584-633, 649-654. Volume R-7: 221-223, 414-418, 508, 540-543. Volume R-9: 412-413. Volume R-11: 11, 220-222, 360-362, 450, 496-497. Volume R-14: 435, 544-550, 578-597, 668-669, 692-694. Volume R-15: 1-4, 298, 373, 651.
Includes pages as follows: Volume R-18: 108, 306-325, 341-456. Volume R-19: 8-37. Volume R-20: 102-160, 129-135, 158, 212, 256-260. Volume R-21: 111, 124. Volume R-22: 30. Volume R-23: 2-12, 63-69, 162-175. Volume R-26: 7-46, 240-241, 583-587, 614-615, 658-665, 680. Volume R-27: 17-24. Volume R-30: 113-129, 158-159, 281, 486, 501-507, 612. Volume R-31: 1-24, 57-60, 119-120, 160-161, 239-242, 262-271, 293-297, 421-428, 453, 484-488, 507-508, 563, 672-686, 725-730.
Series F consists primarily of the correspondence, bills, and financial records of James J. Hill's North Oaks and Humboldt farms. This subseries contains eight volumes, spanning the years 1884-1889 and 1909-1911. The volumes are concerned largely with the operations of those enterprises, which were both working farms and experimental laboratories for Hill's livestock distribution program and other agricultural reform projects.
Although this series contains some of James J. Hill's letters, most of the correspondence was authored by the superintendents charged with the management of his farms. Authors include: John D. Dalquist, Charles E. Gibson, John T. Gibson, James J. Hill, David McCleary, and Charles A. Secombe.
Series S consists of the outgoing correspondence of James J. Hill's office in St. Paul, numbering 201 volumes. The books contain information regarding a wide variety of matters, including topics documented by all other series in this microfilm edition.
Series S contains some letters authored by James J. Hill, but most of the correspondence was authored by his secretaries, family members, and others. In addition to James J. Hill, authors include (in alphabetical order): Hugh Adams, Charles H. Babcock, Charles H. Benedict, William Boyle, Samuel S. Breed, Charles A. Broadwater, James Brodie, Hamilton Browne, C. C. Burdick, A. W. Clark, William P. Clough, Clyde Coal Company, C. Crowther, Edwin O. Faulkner, Farmer's Publishing Company, W. S. Gillian, Jr., Hans Hansen, Thomas Harborn, M.C. Healion, Eugene P. Hickey, Clara Hill, Dorothy Hill, Gertrude Hill, James N. Hill, Louis Hill, Mary T. Hill, Maud Hill, Ruth Hill, Samuel Hill, Walter J. Hill, Eugene P. Hosley, Lehigh Supply Company, Lohr Brothers, John Lohr, Mason City & Fort Dodge Railroad Company, Robert Melk, Mille Lacs Lumber Company, H. W. Milliman, Minneapolis Trust Company, Edward T. Nichols, H. A. Noble, J. H. Probst, Anna Raquet, Red Mountain Consolidated Mining Company, Mary A. Renwick, George H. Robinson, Louis Rustad, Albert M. Scott, William Secombe, A. M. Shaw, Thomas Shaw, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Charlotte Hill Slade, Charles Steele, William A. Stephens, George D. Stewart, John R. Stinson, H. H. Stonaker, John J. Toomey, William C. Toomey, United States Land and Water Power Company, Frank E. Ward, Webster County Coal & Land Company, Captain David A. Weed, George B. Young, and W. J. Young.
Series O consists of outgoing correspondence, telegrams, legal documents, financial records, and memoranda, generated, for the most part, in offices outside St. Paul by James J. Hill's subordinates responsible for the administration of his varied personal financial interests. This subseries includes 28 volumes concerned with Hill's investments in railroads, mines, mills, lumbering, townsite speculation, and other matters, in Minnesota, Iowa, Montana, and Washington state.
Three volumes concerned with that company's flour milling operation at Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
Eleven volumes concerned with Hill's lumbering and sawmill operations at Anoka and Milaca, Minnesota, 1897-1915. Documents concerned with the Mille Lacs Lumber Company's operations prior to 1897 are included in the private secretary's correspondence series (Series S).
Eight volumes concerned with Hill's varied railroad and mining interests in that state including materials generated by the Webster County Coal & Land Company, the Mason City & Fort Dodge Railroad Company, the Clyde Coal Company, and the Lehigh Supply Company.
One volume of correspondence regarding Hill's mines near Great Falls, Montana.
One volume of James J. Hill's son-in-law's letters regarding general activities in Montana.
One volume of correspondence regarding mining activity in western Washington state.
Two volumes concerned with his activities, primarily in Minnesota, as James J. Hill's land agent.
One volume of Hill's miscellaneous financial records.
Series is comprised of a small selection of records related to a number of railroad companies, both companies James J. Hill owned and operated and competitor companies with whom he was involved. Additional material on each of these companies can be found in the Great Northern Railway records, the Northern Pacific Railway records and the Soo Line Railroad Company corporate records.
Additional correspondence interfiled in General Correspondence.
The Aberdeen, Fergus Falls and Pierre Railroad Company files contain the records of a temporary railroad company incorporated by James J. Hill in 1886 and absorbed by the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway later that year; these files also include data on the Dakota Midland Railroad, the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian Reservation, the Columbia and Dakota Midland Railroad Company, and the Dakota Land Company.
The records of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad and its successor, the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, are here combined. They include the files of Henry D. Minot, chairman of the Manitoba road from 1888 to 1890, and records related to the lawsuit brought by Jesse Farley against Hill and Norman Kittson in the 1870s regarding Farley’s claim to a portion of the St. Paul and Pacific.
Printed pamphlet regarding bill pertaining to St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in state legislature.
Court records of suit by Dutch bondholders.
Railroad construction mileage book.
Maps show railroad lands remaining unsold.
Includes line from Minot, Dakota Territory, to Great Falls, Montana.
The Great Northern Railway records include the files of the assistant to the president, 1891-1904, consisting of correspondence and operating records of T. J. Hyman and others.
Primarily Washington state plats.
This subseries incorporates the Northern Pacific reorganization records, which document the attempt by Hill to merge the operations of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways under the Northern Securities Company between 1894 and 1904 and the resulting federal lawsuit.
Includes printed order authorizing issue of $5,000,000 receivers' certificates (October 8, 1894) and report of receivers to the court (June 30, 1895[?]}.
Includes printed reports, auditor's bulletins, and financial reports issued by and for the receivers of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Includes assorted clippings (some unattributed) and daily market letters from Dow Jones and Co., Watson and Gibson, and New York News Bureau.
Series comprises the records of four newspaper and publishing companies owned or partially owned and controlled by James J. Hill in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Stock certificates and letters laid into volume.
Small series consists of a research file compiled by a James J. Hill agent in Asia, possibly Herman Rosenthal. The material includes Japanese and Chinese publications in English and German, annotated clippings and handwritten notes containing information on customs, duties, exports and imports. See also a letter from the American consul at Hong Kong to Herman Rosenthal, January 6, 1893, in general correspondence.
Notes and annotated clippings.
Imports and exports statistics.
Records of the original water power company organized in 1856 to exploit the St. Anthony Falls in St. Anthony, now Minneapolis, Minnesota. James J. Hill and partners Norman Kittson, George Stephen, Donald Smith, Richard Angus, and John S. Kennedy purchased the company in 1880. Files include the records of several lawsuits which illuminate the local history. The company was sold to the Pillsbury-Washburn flour milling syndicate in 1889.
Series is comprised of records of a collection of enterprises, mainly coal mining but also land and railroad, located in Iowa and managed by Hamilton Browne. Hill maintained a separate file for each concern and one special file for some of the correspondence with Browne; however, these files are very interrelated, with Browne a chief correspondent for each, so they have been grouped together into a single series with a subseries for each individual file. The records of the Climax, Clyde, Lower Vein, and Boone Valley Coal Companies, the Webster County Mining and Railway Company and its successor the Webster County Coal Company are further related as each was concerned with mining coal in Iowa and numerous consolidations occurred among them. These properties were sold to the Chicago Great Western Railroad in 1901, but the mining had already largely been abandoned as Illinois coal was far superior. The records document coal mining, employment of African-Americans, strikes, wages, and life in central Iowa.
Correspondence and other material filed separately in James J. Hill’s office, 1874-1893. Related material may also be found in General Correspondence and in the files of each of the individual Iowa properties.
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Records of a railroad company incorporated in 1881 and formed out of the foreclosed property of the Iowa and Pacific Railroad. The road consisted of 90 miles of track and a spur to the Lehigh coal field. It was owned by James J. Hill, John S. Kennedy, Samuel Thorne and D. Willis James; Hill retained a financial interest after its sale to Great Western in 1901. Materials include mainly routine correspondence, reports and financial records, as well as maps. Notable topics are railroad accidents and an early farmer’s cooperative.
Includes Kelly affidavits.
Records cover the operations of a steamboat fleet on Lake Minnetonka in western Hennepin County, Minnesota. The outfit was managed by Charles Zimmerman, who used an $850,000 loan from James J. Hill to purchase four initial boats in 1881. In 1883 this company and the Minnetonka Steamboat Company, a competing venture also backed by James J. Hill, incorporated together under the former’s name. After buying out a competing W. D. Washburn outfit in 1889, it operated at least 8 boats. The company worked in close concert with Hill’s rail lines, which brought passengers to and from the lake. Full financial records document the company’s decline. After years of losses due to excess expenditures it became insolvent in 1896 and was dissolved the next year. Other records include lists of boat commuters, data on crews, earnings of individual vessels, and litigation over a dock at Excelsior, Minnesota.
Includes entries for
File moved from Mille Lacs Lumber Company records. Includes correspondence, financial records and legal documents.
Papers relate to transportation matters in the mining districts of British Columbia. The chief centers of interest were Crows Nest Pass coal fields and the gold, silver, copper and lead deposits around the Great Northern line, Kootenay River and Lake (spelled Kootenai in the United States), and the Columbia River. Hill’s Crow’s Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Company, incorporated in 1888, formed a trust with four rival companies in 1898 called the Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company to effectively compete with the Canadian Pacific Railway in the region. The records document the so-called Nighthawk Claim legal case, involving a member of parliament, in which a rival railway director was ultimately found to have improperly attempted to profit through resale of railroad lands.
Includes work, shipping, ore analysis, and annual reports.
Printed plat maps and blueprints of Kootenai area mines.
Series is comprised of the records of railroad, mining, water power and townsite ventures in Montana and of the holding company created to consolidate ownership of those enterprises. The small amount of general records of the Montana Securities holding company (1 cu. ft.) consists primarily of correspondence and stock records. Five subseries, one for each individual company, form the bulk of the series.
Record of ore taken from several properties.
This company, headed locally by Paris Gibson, was founded in 1882 to develop the area of Great Falls, Montana. Records consist in large part of correspondence between Gibson and James J. Hill; however, much additional correspondence between the two concerning the company is filed in the General Correspondence series of the James J. Hill papers. For an unknown reason the company records end in 1902 although Hill did not sell his stock until 1908. Also included are the records of a short-lived subsidiary, the United States Land and Water Power Company.
5 photographs of the Great Falls.
Includes articles of incorporation.
Company was founded in 1885 and was absorbed into the Great Northern Railway Company in 1894. The records consist mainly of correspondence and stock documents; major topics include exploration for railroad passes in Montana, ore smelting efforts, Montana politics, and federal debate on right of way for railroads over Indian lands.
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Records document mining efforts, managed by C. A. Broadwater, on properties owned by James J. Hill near the town of Neihart, Montana, 1881-1893. Extracted from the mines were smelting and milling ores including zinc, grey copper, galena, gold, iron pyrites, silver, and quartz. Records include ore analyses and plats of specific lodes.
Includes drawings and blueprints.
Records document efforts to mine and smelt manganese ore from lodes owned by James J. Hill and partners in Montana.
Mining company, incorporated in 1884, held 37 claims to silver quartz mines which were unworkable until after 1914 as an effective way of smelting this material had not been developed. Records include the correspondence of president C. A. Broadwater, routine financial records, a large amount of legal documents pertaining to ownership of and rights to the individual lodes, and mining reports. Later records of this company are included in the Louis W. Hill papers.
Includes petty cashbook.
Includes lists of shareholders.
Hand drawn and printed plat and topological maps of mines and townsite.
Series is composed of the records of a flour and feed mill located in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, incorporated in 1881 and sold by Hill in 1899. Material is comprised mainly of correspondence, deeds, insurance policies, and financial records that document routine operations including wheat and grain purchases, sales, and shipment of grain products. Records relating to the land on which the mill stood can be found in the real estate series.
Memo entries from cash sale stub book and petty ledger, by account.
Entries by date.
Entries by date.
Entries by account.
Records of an unsuccessful gold mining venture in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. James J. Hill was a major investor of a German syndicate, the Phoebus Exploring Association, which began explorations for potential mines in the region in 1897; the Constance Mining Company was incorporated in 1899 while exploration was still ongoing. Troublesome Creek and Monte Cristo mines were the major claims in the region. Notable material includes the reports by mining engineer C. E. Haber and others on mines and mining areas, and a detailed report by C. C. Coley on a prospecting expedition to Alaska. Phoebus ceased exploration in 1900 and mining operations ended abruptly in 1902.
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Includes Troublesome Creek Mining Company.
Mainly issues of
Records of a logging, lumbering, and sawmilling company with operations in Anoka and Milaca, Minnesota, and a head office in St. Paul. It was incorporated by Andrew G. Tod, nephew of John S. Kennedy, banker Weston Hammons, and James J. Hill’s secretary William Secombe in 1882. Series is comprised primarily of correspondence, records of lands purchased by the company and sold after logging including deeds and abstracts of title, legal case files, and routine financial records.
The company was the original owner of the townsite of Milaca, and many aspects of the town are documented in the papers, including the company store, Forest Hills cemetery, and a colony for Russian Jews promoted by Hill’s lawyer Jacob Schiff which was never realized, as well as routine records of lot sales in the town and operations of the sawmill. The company ceased logging and manufacturing lumber in 1895 once all their lands had been harvested of oak; after that year the records are concerned with the sale of cut-over lands and with numerous lawsuits regarding faulty titles acquired by Tod. Tod and Hammons had run the company so unsuccessfully that Hill and Kennedy took over operations; by 1915 all titles had been settled and lands sold, and the company was dissolved.
Mainly advertisements.
Includes various property tax data, 1883-1893.
Abstract numbers have been assigned by the company.
These abstracts have no company-assigned numbers; folder numbers appear to have been assigned by the James J. Hill Reference Library.
Worksheets used in compiling abstracts.
Land patents issued by the United States General Land Office. Includes scattered numbers.
Unarranged.
Unarranged.
Containing investigations of land titles; arranged by legal description.
Lawsuits involving Mille Lacs Lumber Company, arranged by litigant.
Arranged by legal description of land.
Arranged by legal description of land.
Includes articles of incorporation (1882) and bylaws.
These records were removed from a loose leaf volume and foldered.
Limited amount of financial records of two Twin Cities area wood and coal fuel businesses founded by James J. Hill. Hill, Griggs and Company was formed in 1869 in partnership with competitor Colonel Chauncey W. Griggs and dissolved in 1875. Hill, Saunders and Acker was formed immediately thereafter with George S. Acker and Edward N. Saunders; it incorporated as the Northwestern Fuel Company in 1877.
Incomplete.
Hill and Acker until October 1877, thereafter Hill, Saunders and Acker.
Labeled E. N. Saunders journal 'D'.
Papers related to the St. John River area of Quebec, where James J. Hill owned property and would travel for sport and recreation. Hill began leasing rights to fish on the river in 1898 and purchased land and began to build a lodge in 1900. Notable material includes maps of and reports on fishing in the local rivers, salmon fishing records for 1900-1919, specifications, plans, and inventories for the lodge, and a collection of pamphlets on fishing in the region. The correspondence documents Hill’s first research on the area, maintenance of the vacation property, and organization of fishing trips. Many images of the area may be found in the James J. Hill photograph collection.
Papers related to James J. Hill’s personal steam yacht
Found inlaid in 1906-1909 expense volume.
Records of a Catholic educational institution founded and largely supported through its first years by a gift of $500,000 from James J. Hill. Series is comprised largely of correspondence, including a file of letters between the architect Cass Gilbert, Hill, and various contractors and workmen. Other material consists of legal documents including articles of incorporation and the trustee gift agreement, a typed copy of Hill’s 1895 dedication address, maps and appraisals of church property in the name of Archbishop John Ireland, and financial and insurance data. The trusteeship was to last through the lifetimes of Hill’s sons and twenty-one years thereafter, but there are few records dating to after Hill’s death in 1916.
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Cass Gilbert, architect.
Mainly agreements, also estimates and proposals for construction.
Found inlaid in ledger.
One issue with article "The new seminary of St. Paul" and one annual report.
Records of the St. Paul convent dedicated to the shelter and reform of fallen women consist entirely of statements of expenditure and receipt and indebtedness and small amount of correspondence related thereto.
Records relating to a convent and its academy in St. Paul, Minnesota. Material primarily concerns purchases of property and construction of convent buildings, 1911-1913.
Records of this association are related primarily to its enterprise, the St. Paul Driving Park horse racing track. Material is comprised of financial records including bills, statements of expenditure and receipt, related correspondence, stock data, and a racing result record book listing the names and other data on all horses in each race.
Small series is comprised of data relating to James J. Hill's art collection, which he referred to as 'pictures', and the semi-public art gallery he maintained in his Summit Avenue home beginning in the 1890s. Some of the material relates to the division of the collection amongst his heirs after his death.
Includes photocopies of records from G. Norman Slade papers.
Prints of paintings of Adams and Madison in James J. Hill art collection.
Series consists of records of James J. Hill’s three farm properties: Humboldt Farm in Humboldt, Minnesota, Northcote Farm in Northcote, Minnesota, both in Kittson County, and North Oaks Farm in North Oaks, Minnesota, 10 miles north of St. Paul in Ramsey County. A small amount of material pertaining to Hillier Farm on Lake Minnetonka in Hennepin County, Minnesota is included with the North Oaks Farm records. The North Oaks and Humboldt Farm joint series is comprised of a series of cancelled checks written from an account serving both farms.
Files contain two main types of material: correspondence and financial records concerning daily operations of each of the farms, and records documenting the raising and breeding of livestock, primarily cattle, but also pigs, sheep and horses. This material consists primarily of pedigrees, certificates of registry, livestock registers, and files detailing Hill’s efforts to import, breed, and distribute animals from Europe. Additional correspondence and financial records for North Oaks and Humboldt Farms can be found in letterpress books F-1 to F-8. Later records for North Oaks Farm are included in the Louis W. Hill papers.
Vouchers 2029-2092, June-December 1916, are included in the Louis W. Hill papers, John J. Toomey files.
Includes general specifications.
Includes specifications.
Includes specifications and piping plan.
Volumes of mainly invoices.
Requisitions June 1916-December 1917 are included in the Louis W. Hill papers, John J. Toomey files.
Rambouillet, Oxford Down, and Shropshire sheep.
Duroc-Jersey swine.
Jersey, Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus cattle.
Ayreshire, Dexter, South Devon and Shorthorn cattle.
Aberdeen Angus cattle.
Registry certificates, lists, and correspondence.
Includes files on Jersey, Shorthorn, Aberdeen Angus, Dexter, and Ayreshire cattle.
Ayreshire and South Devon cattle.
Primarily reports.
Includes Hillier Farm data.
Primarily circulars and catalogs.
Includes specifications.
Lake Minnetonka - Crystal Bay; farm, part of lot 1, section 15, T117N, R23W.
Series is comprised of materials relating to various residential and investment properties owned by James J. Hill in the United States and Canada, mainly in the 1880s to the 1910s. Files are included on Hill’s homes in St. Paul, Minnesota, New York City, and Jekyl Island, Georgia, on rental properties in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and New York, and on larger tracts of land in towns and rural areas of Minnesota and North Dakota. Records consist primarily of deeds, purchase agreements, abstracts of title, mortgage documents, building specifications, property inventories, rental revenue data, and related correspondence.
Includes Hill's children's expenses.
Includes auto insurance.
Records of Hill's home and outbuildings at 240 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Records of Hill's membership in the exclusive Georgia resort, known later as Jekyll Island.
Mainly deeds; includes Hennepin, Pipestone, and St. Croix counties.
Series is comprised of routine personal and business financial records, including personal expenditures and investments and general financial data encapsulating many diverse business interests. The bulk of the material is formed of two series of vouchers, cancelled checks, check stubs, general and personal ledgers, journals, and cashbooks. Many of the records relate to bank accounts held with the First National Bank of St. Paul although some records pertain to accounts with other banks in St. Paul and New York. General business financial data is included; additional records pertaining to specific businesses can be found in those series.
The reason why this smaller, second set of vouchers was kept separately from the main set is unknown; the two sets appear to completely parallel each other. It may be that this second series was kept in the New York office where second series of other records were also kept.
Includes "Missing checks" books nos.1-4.
Includes personal account balance sheets.
Includes personal account balance sheets.
Includes personal account balance sheets.
Includes personal account balance sheets.
Includes personal account balance sheets.
Includes personal account balance sheets.
Arranged by each child.
January, March, May, July, September, November.
February, April, June, August, October, December.
Each volume includes index.
Appears to be a payroll.
Record of mortgages held by James J. Hill.
Various companies; letterpress.
Series is comprised of subject files on a variety of legal issues. Records are primarily correspondence, but also include stock certificates and bonds, insurance records, and legal documents.
Files of primarily inventories, some including cost valuations with related correspondence.
Primarily miscellaneous printed material collected by James J. Hill.
Includes miscellaneous printed, hand drawn, and blueprint maps related to the Great Northern Railroad and other properties owned by James J. Hill. Most of the maps date from the 1880s to 1915. Maps of Washington (Everett, Seattle, Spokane and Vancouver areas), Oregon, California, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, and Minnesota predominate. The Minnesota maps include early maps of Fergus Falls, Milaca, and properties in Minneapolis (Brackett property) and St. Paul of interest to Hill. Also included are maps of the Battle of Gettysburg 50th anniversary encampment and the area around Fort Abraham Lincoln, North Dakota.
Includes 13 maps of localities in Washington.
Includes 32 maps of localities in Oregon, California, Montana, and North Dakota.
Includes 33 maps of localities in Montana and western Canada.
Shows proposed purchase of additional ground south of Salmon Bay and terminal grounds of Great Northern Railway.
Kittson estate land held in trust for James J. Hill, J.S. Kennedy, et. al., between Nicollet Avenue and Second Street NE.
Series is comprised primarily of published pamphlets either written by James J. Hill or concerning Hill and his business ventures. Many of the pamphlets are printed versions of public speeches given by Hill. Also included are typed manuscripts written by Hill and newspaper clippings concerning Hill's speeches, containing both editorial comments on the speeches and full reprinted texts.
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Includes "Speech of Mr. James J. Hill."
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Includes address by James J. Hill.
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Includes "Reminiscences of early Winnipeg" by Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal and James J. Hill.
Includes "Address of Hon. J. J. Hill at Richland County Fair Held at Wahpeton Sept. 24" by James J. Hill.
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Issues contain "Highways of Progress," a series of articles by James J. Hill.
Contains "The Imperative of Better Farming," by James J. Hill.
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Commencement issue, includes speech by James J. Hill.
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Includes "Trade Reciprocity Between Canada and the United States" by James J. Hill.
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Includes "The Future of the Northwest" and "Proper Land Cultivation and Production" by James J. Hill.
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Includes "The Reservoir Method of Flood Prevention" by James J. Hill.
Includes the proceedings of the 20th annual convention of the New York State Bankers Association with a speech by James J. Hill.
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Includes the proceedings of the Convention of the American Bankers' Association with "Agriculture in the United States" by James J. Hill.
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Includes "Electricity, the Most Adaptable Physical Force" by James J. Hill.
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Includes "The Value and the Need of Thrift" by James J. Hill.
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Written for and published in the New York Times Magazine,
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One issue is in English, the other is in Spanish. Each contains "Our Trade with South America" by James J. Hill.
Clippings and address texts.
Volumes C and D; includes inventory of addresses.
Includes "James J. Hill and His School for Railroad Presidents" by Paul Latzke.
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Includes "Notable Tribute to a Famous Railway Magnate" by Conde Hamilton.
Includes "The Story of the 'North Bank' Road" by Lute Pease.
Includes testimony of James J. Hill.
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Includes "James J. Hill - Whose Faith Built an Empire."
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Includes "The Hill Professorship of Transportation" by Howard Elliot.
Includes "James Jerome Hill."
Includes "The Life of James J. Hill," part 1, by Joseph G. Pyle.
Includes "The Life of James J. Hill," part 3, by Joseph G. Pyle.
Includes "James J. Hill" by Joseph G. Pyle.
Includes "And They Said it Couldn't be Done" by Sherman Rogers.
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Includes "The Legend of Jim Hill" by Stewart H. Holbrook.
Includes "James J. Hill's Great Adventure."
Includes "James J. Hill and the Trade with the Orient" by Edward Schonberger.
Includes "James J. Hill: Entrepreneur in the Classic Mold" by Albro Martin.
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Series is comprised of newspaper tear sheets and clippings, both loose and in scrapbooks, containing articles concerning James J. Hill and his business ventures. A subseries is comprised of material regarding Hill's death in 1916.
Includes some photographs.
Includes some correspondence.
Arranged alphabetically by state in which newspaper is located: Alabama-Nebraska.
Arranged alphabetically by state in which newspaper is located: New Jersey-Wisconsin.
Includes U.S. and Canadian newspapers.
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Number 912 is not used.
Originals closed to general use. Researchers are directed to use microfilm copies.
Letters concern real estate matters, primarily in Minnesota.