James Jerome Hill was born in Rockwood, Ontario, Canada, in 1838, the son of James and Mary Riggs Hill. He emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen and settled in St. Paul in 1856.
During the years from 1856 to 1879, Hill was involved first in the transportation business and then in the coal and wood businesses. He carried on these enterprises in partnerships with Egbert S. Litchfield (as James J. Hill and Company); Chauncey Griggs, Alexander Griggs, and Norman Kittson; and George S. Acker, John A. Armstrong, and Edward Saunders.
A well-established businessman by 1879, Hill in that year began his greatest endeavor. Along with George Stephen, Donald A. Smith, John S. Kennedy, and Norman Kittson, he formed the syndicated that reorganized the bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad into the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railroad (the Manitoba). Severing all ties with the fuel business by May 1879, Hill concentrated on the railroad. He was first named its general manager, and by 1882 had become its president.
In 1880 Hill also became involved in the organization of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). He was a member of the organizing syndicate, along with Donald A. Smith, George Stephen, John S. Kennedy, John A. MacDonald, and R. B. Angus. Hill remained active in the CPR until 1883.
During the 1880s Hill also invested in coal mining in Montana and Iowa; milling in Minneapolis; water power development in Minneapolis and Great Falls, Montana; and shipping on the Great Lakes. The latter developed into the founding of the Northern Steamship Company in 1888.
By 1887 the Manitoba had been extended into Montana, and in early 1889 Hill committed his railroad interests to building an extension to the Pacific Coast. In September of that year the Manitoba's Board of Directors heard and adopted plans for construction of the Great Northern Railway, a transcontinental line to the Pacific. Hill became President of the line and work commenced on the Pacific Extension. The last spike was driven on January 6, 1893. In 1895 Hill, along with George Stephen, Edward Tuck, and Thomas Skinner, formed the "London Agreement," a pact to acquire the Northern Pacific Railroad on behalf of the Great Northern. by 1900 they had achieved their goal, with Hill holding effective control of the Northern Pacific.
Hill retired as president of the Great Northern in 1907 but remained active as chairman of its board of directors. In 1912 he retired from that position also. He died on May 29, 1916.
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The correspondence is organized into the following series:
Great Northern Railway Company. President. James J. Hill Correspondence. Minnesota Historical Society.
Accession number: 1067-1083, 1219-1222.
Catalog ID number: 001719929
The General Alphabetical Files contain a variety of correspondence documenting the operation and management of Hill's railroads. The files relate to daily operational procedures and problems; financial matters; complaints; letters of introduction and recommendation; political activities; questions concerning passenger and freight rates and the development of coal lands in Iowa and Montana; order, sales, and deliveries of locomotives, cars, tracks, and other materials necessary for the operation and construction of the railroad; and requests for passes, annual reports, loans, donations, construction contracts, relief to drought and hail stricken farmers along the line, lines to be built to particular cities and towns, permission to build on the railroad's right-of-way, and the opportunity to have patents and inventions examined and tried by the railroad. Also found throughout the records are a large number of telegrams, many of which are written in the railroad's cipher code. Only part of the telegrams have been translated.
Especially notable are several extended series of correspondence with a number of Hill's major associates and employees. There include E. H. Beckler, chief engineer, Great Northern; William Pitt Clough, assistant to President Hill and vice president of both the Manitoba and Great Northern,; John Gordon, general manager, Northern Steamship Company; John Stewart Kennedy, member of the 1879 organizing syndicate, trustee, and financial advisor to the Manitoba and Great Northern; J.S. Kennedy and Company, New York City, bankers and financial advisors; Allen Manvel, general manager and vice president, the Manitoba; A. L. Mohler, general manager, the Manitoba and Great Northern; Edward T. Nichols, treasurer, secretary, and vice president, the Manitoba and Great Northern; P. P. Shelby, general traffic manager, Great Northern; and George Stephen, member of the organizing syndicate of the Manitoba, 1879 and the Canadian Pacific, 1880, and president of the latter.
These files have been arranged in alphabetical order by name of correspondent (person, organization, or company), with those entities represented by more than one letter then being placed in chronological order. Where more than twenty items from the same correspondent are present, they have been placed in their own folder(s) and filed immediately after the general alphabetical folder from which they were removed. All oversize items have been removed and placed at the end of the collection. "Enclosure removal statements" noting what was removed and where it can be found have been substituted for the items in the original folders.
Assistant to President Hill, Great Northern.
Many letters deal with farming problems in the Dakotas, freight and passenger rates, and a charge against the Great Northern of stealing business from the Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railway. Also contains correspondence with E.H. Beckler, C.H. Warren, and A.L. Mohler.
Master mechanic, Manitoba's St. Paul shops.
Mainly concerns such problems as damaged locomotives and broken wheels. Includes several letters about the August 21, 1880 shop employees' strike and quarterly lists of passes issued to car repairers.
President, Union Pacific Railway Company.
Deals mainly with meetings between Adams and Hill and the possibility of joint ownership of the two railways. (See also Cameron, J.S., box 3).
Includes telegrams between Hill and E. Anderson, manager, concerning operation of the Sand Coulee Coal Company, Sand Coulee, Montana (1888-1889).
Includes order and shipment statements from these Chicago iron merchants.
Concerns delivery, construction, and prices for orders by the Manitoba and Great Northern. Includes letters from Burnham, Parry, Williams & Company (1880s) and Burnham, Williams & Company (1890s), owners of the works.
President, Haskell & Barker Car Company, Michigan City, Indiana.
Deals with construction of cars for the Manitoba and Great Northern. (See also box 6.)
Secretary/treasurer of the trustees, the Manitoba.
Mainly concerns operation of the line and the sale of mortgage bonds. Includes several letters to R.B. Angus.
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company, Dayton, Ohio.
Deals with orders and shipments from this rolling stock manufacturer.
Auditor, Montana Central Railway Company, 1888-1889; secretary/treasurer, Northern Steamship Company, Buffalo, New York, 1889-1890; secretary/treasurer, Sand Coulee Coal Company
Operational and financial correspondence.
Chief engineer, Montana Central Railway Company and Great Northern.
Deals mainly with construction of the Great Northern's western lines, including a series of daily short reports and numerous more detailed reports on the progress of the track-laying, with comments on right-of-way, spur tracks, the use of Flathead Indian Reservation land, land surveys, field notes from engineers, and financial surveys. Many maps and blueprints of the line were enclosed. Also present are cost figures for the Seattle and Montana Railway Company (January-June 1890); several letters dealing with the Mountain View Mine and Flathead Valley townsite, both in Montana (August-December 1891); bids and correspondence concerning construction between the summit of the Cascade Range and the Pacific Coast (November 1891-March 1892); a statement of expenditure on the Pacific Extension (February 1892); and a statement of completion of construction work on the Seattle and Montana Railway (March 15, 1892).
Includes letters from Robert Lenox Belknap dealing with the division of freight between the Manitoba and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company (1880).
Collector, U. S. Internal Revenue Service.
Includes correspondence concerning an impending personal injury lawsuit against the Manitoba.
Clark & Bill, merchants, Bismarck, Dakota Territory.
Personal correspondence with Hill.
General freight and ticket agent, Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, 1879-1882; comptroller, the Manitoba, 1882-1888; secretary, Minnesota Transfer Company, St. Paul, 1886-1892; secretary/treasurer, Sand Coulee Coal Company, 1889-1892; and Northern Steamship Company, 1889-1892.
Mainly financial and operational statements concerning shipments and accounts.
Land commissioner, the Manitoba and Great Northern Land Departments; general agent, Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company, Great Falls, Montana, 1891-1892.
Deals mainly with the operation of the Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company during 1891-1892. Also includes an incomplete series of weekly land department transaction statements (1881-1892).
Selecting land agent, the Manitoba.
Includes a series of letters (1886) concerning the improper opening of the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Dakota Territory.
President, Montana Central Railway Company.
Includes many coded and translated telegrams; weekly reports concerning the 1888 building of the Wickes Tunnel; letters dealing with the 1888 closing of a mine at Great Falls, Montana because of the miners' demands after organizing during a Knights of Labor movement; a substantial number of letters concerning the rivalry between the Montana Central and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; and a series (1890) about claims concerning the title legality of the Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company. Contains enclosures from P.P. Shelby, Allen Manvel, and William Pitt Clough.
Mainly deals with the specifications and delivery of locomotives ordered by the Manitoba and Great Northern, with specification sheets from both the railroads and the locomotive works. Includes letters from E.T. Nichols.
Includes a letter from John Burns concerning the consolidation of the Great Northern and the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway (1891).
St. Paul agent, the Manitoba.
Concerns the efforts of this law firm to secure the Great Northern's land interests along the Seattle water front. Mainly from Thomas R. Shepard to Hill.
Manager, Sand Coulee Coal Company.
Includes letters concerning a typhoid outbreak in the overcrowded conditions at the mine sites (October 1889), and labor organizations and strikes among the miners (August 1890-June 1892).
Chief of construction, Union Pacific System.
Consists mainly of letters to Hill concerning a possible merger of the two lines. Includes several letters dealing with a possible contract for exchanging leases in Montana and Idaho; the use of a joint line from Portland, Oregon to Puget Sound, Washington; and an October 31, 1890 proposal for a meeting between Hill and Charles F. Adams, Union Pacific president, to discuss a new corporation. (See also Adams, box 1.)
President, Chase National Bank, New York City, 1886-1904.
Includes letters of introduction and recommendation and letters concerning Manitoba and Great Northern stock.
Includes letters between Hill and S. H. H. Clarke dealing with the violation by the Northern Pacific of agreements between the two lines (1892).
Attorney, Gilman and Clough, St. Paul, 1880; by 1887, assistant to Hill as the Manitoba's president; vice president, the Manitoba and Great Northern, 1887-1901.
Consists mainly of letters to Hill during Hill's visits to New York City updating him on the daily business of the St. Paul office. Includes letters concerning sale of the Manitoba bonds (1887-1888); letters from Clough while in Washington, D.C. dealing with patents of railroad lands before Congress (1888); and letters concerning a coal contract between Hill, Clough, E.T. Nichols, and Charles O. Parsons, consulting engineer of the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company (1889); and letters regarding the Northern Pacific trying to create problems for the Great Northern entering Seattle (1890), the right-of-way across the Black Foot and Piegan reservations (1890), and the progress of the Pacific Extension (1891).
Attorney, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1870-1933; Minnesota state representative, 1875-1882; Minnesota state senator, 1882-1888; Comstock and White Real Estate, Moorhead, 1883-1885; president, Northwest Land Company, Moorhead, 1885-1889; U.S. representative, 1889-1891.
Deals mainly with the building of a rail line to the Fargo/Moorhead area, including letters (August 1881) concerning pledges of right-of-way for the "Moorhead Northern" [Minnesota and Dakota Northern Railroad"].
Manager, Butte and Montana Commercial Company.
Concerns bonds sold for the Flathead country of Montana and various townsite operations in that state.
Concerns purchase and shipment of rails, spikes, frogs, and other construction materials by this purchasing agent.
Minnesota state representative, 1875-1877; Minnesota state senator, 1881; president, Wadena and Park Rapids Railroad Company, 1891-1892.
Deals with the construction of the Wadena and Park Rapids Railroad.
Banker, Rage, Daly & Company, Anaconda, Montana; assayer, Anaconda; founder, Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
Includes correspondence concerning the building of a spur to Anaconda, and the Anaconda Mining Company coal mines.
Real estate and financial agent, Spokane Falls, Washington.
Contains maps, plats, and profiles dealing with the right-of-way through Spokane Falls.
Employee, Northcote Farm, Northcote, Minnesota.
Reports to Hill on crops, weather, harvest, and other farm matters. Other letters deal with the drainage of the Manitoba and Great Northern lands in Kittson County. Includes several letters to R.B. Angus.
Car service agent, the Manitoba, St. Paul, 1880; by 1885, secretary and superintendent of the Minneapolis Union Railway Company.
Includes car and shipment statements from the Iowa coal mines (1880-1881), and several letters to H.C. Ives, F.S. Moffat, and Allen Manvel.
Assistant general superintendent, 1866-1881, and general western manager and vice president, American Express Company, Chicago.
Contains letters concerning contracts and prices, and letters (1891) dealing with the possibility of the continued use of the American Express line along the Great Northern route to the Pacific coast. Includes several letters to R.B. Angus.
Secretary, Great Northern Elevator Company, Duluth, Minnesota, 1888-1890; Great Northern general agent, Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin; general manager, Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota; and vice president, Northern Steamship Company, Buffalo, New York.
Mainly reports on grain delivery and shipment to Duluth/Superior. Includes letters about the 1888 takeover of the Great Northern Elevator Company by the Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota.
Vice president, New York, Lake Erie, and Western Railroad Company, New York City, 1885-1890.
Includes personal correspondence between Hill and Felton concerning hunting in the western United States and several letters (1889) about Hill's connection with the Lackawanna Railroad.
General manager, Wisconsin Central Railroad Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1878-1889; president, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault St. Marie Railway Company, 1889-1891.
Includes an 1881 job offer from Hill, and Finney's declination.
Superintendent, Northern Pacific Express Company, 1880-1888; manager, express traffic, Great Northern, 1890-1892; vice president and general manager, Great Northern, 1892- .
Includes correspondence covering the daily business and monthly earnings and expense statements of the express department, and (1891) discussing Great Northern's plans to discontinue use of the American Express Company and develop an express line of its own.
Treasurer, Sioux City and Northern Railroad Company (Soo Line), 1890-1891; president, Soo Line and Sioux City, O'Neill and Western Railway Company (Pacific Shortline).
Includes a Soo Line prospectus with statements of earnings and expenses (1890); correspondence concerning arrangements by Soo Line investers to buy controlling interest in the Pacific Shortline (1890); letters dealing with the selling of Soo Line stocks and bonds to Great Northern (November 1890); a contract and correspondence concerning the September 1891 insuring of the reorganized Soo Line bonds by J. Kennedy Tod; and letters (December 1891) covering the completion of the reorganization.
Dealer in wool and sheep, Fort Benton, Montana, 1880; founder, Great Falls, Montana, 1882; vice president, Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company, 1891.
Mainly concerns the attributes of the Great Falls area -- water power, silver, and wheat. Includes correspondence dealing with an extension to Fort Benton (1879-1880) and efforts to speed Great Northern in extending a line to that area before the Northern Pacific (1881).
Includes letters to Hill from Cass Gilbert concerning the various buildings he took part in designing for Hill (1890-1892).
Lieutenant governor, Minnesota, 1880-1886; dealer in white pine products, Benton County, Minnesota; proprietor, Beulahland Stock Farm, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Deals mainly with Gilman's wish for a line through Benton County, particularly the St. Cloud, Mankato, and Austin Railroad. Also discusses Democratic politics in Minnesota.
Includes letters from the Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, Ohio, concerning steamers built for the Northern Steamship Company (1887-1888).
Agent, the Erie and Western Transportation Company, Chicago, 1886-1889; general manager, Northern Steamship Company, 1889- .
Correspondence dealing with the operation of the steamship line. Includes letters on rates, tariffs, deliveries, and insurance; shipping statements; reports on particular ships, particularly machinery and accident reports; several letters concerning the company's working arrangement with the Lackawanna Railroad Company (March 1889); a list of elevators used in 1889 and remarks on each; reports from the executive committee of the Trunkline Association (1890); and letters concerning experimental pooling with the Lake Superior Transit Company (1891).
Real estate dealer, Grand Forks, Dakota Territory; railroad commissioner, Grand Forks, 1887-1890.
Pertains mainly to buying land for the railroad in Dakota, and 1881 Dakota railroad legislation. Includes several letters to E.B. Wakeman.
General solicitor, the Manitoba, St. Paul, 1886; by 1890, Great Northern general solicitor.
Mainly concerns legal cases involving the railroad. Includes letters about a contract between the Minneapolis Union Railway Company and St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company (November 1889), and the Montana Central Railway Company's right-of-way in Butte, Montana (May 1892).
Banker and broker, New York City.
Concerns smelting works at Great Falls and Helena, Montana.
General office, train dispatcher's office, and superintendent's office, the Manitoba, 1880-1884; superintendent, the Manitoba's Northern Division, Barnesville, Minnesota, 1885.
Includes pass requests for employees.
Personal letters to Hill from Hackett, mayor of Bismark, Dakota Territory, concerning politics in that city. Includes hearing papers (May 1875) entitled "U.S. Land Office, Bismark, Dakota Territory, Townsite Contest, May 17, 1875 and Argument for John W. Proctor, Edmund Hackett, Dennis Hennefin, and John J. Jackman, Pre-Emption Claimants."
General manager, Land and River Improvement Company, West Superior, Wisconsin.
Includes letters (1884) dealing with a Northern Pacific depot in St. Paul and the construction of a bridge in Superior.
Includes an invitation to Hill to attend the 21st Annual Reunion of Surviving Members of the "Old First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment Association", 1888 (filed under C.F. Hansdorf).
General traffic manager, Northern Pacific Railroad Company, St. Paul.
Mainly concerns shipping and passenger rates, the issuing of passes, and an 1890 charge of scalping Pacific Coast passenger tickets. Includes a number of letters to John N. Abbott.
Includes letters from Robert Harris concerning conflicting land grants of the Manitoba and the Northern Pacific (1884, 1890).
Real estate dealer, Fargo, North Dakota, 1880-1889; in West Superior, Wisconsin, 1890- .
Concerns acquiring land in the Red River Valley for Manitoba and Great Northern right-of-way and depot sites.
Covers the Manitoba's orders for cars built by this manufacturer of passenger, baggage, and freight cars, including delivery, dates, prices, amounts and types ordered, progress reports, and contracts. Most of the letters are from N.P. Rogers, company secretary.
Consists mostly of telegrams concerning Hill's location when not in St. Paul. Many of these are in code, with only part translated. Also contains letters about land deeds and contracts (1883-1885) and the Montana Central Railway (October 1889). Includes many letters to J.S. Kennedy, E.H. Beckler, and John H. Gordon.
Telegrams to Hill giving the location of family members and their welfare.
President, Minneapolis Trust Company, 1883-1903; Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota; the Montana Central Railway; and the Manitoba. Son-in-law of J.J. Hill.
Includes many telegrams, a number in code, and letters concerning Great Northern stocks and dividends (August 1890) and resources and liabilities of the Minneapolis Trust Company (November 1891).
Includes a letter from Chief Ignatious Hole-In-The-Day dealing with the railroad's right-of-way through the White Earth Indian (Ojibwe) Reservation (1883).
General manager, 1876-1884, second vice president, 1884-1887, and president, 1887-1910, Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company.
Includes letters (1887) concerning Hill's building of a line from Watertown to Huron, South Dakota, running parallel to the Chicago and Northwestern.
Assistant to President Hill, Great Northern, 1891-1892.
Mainly telegrams, some in code, reporting to Hill the daily business of the St. Paul office and setting up appointments for Hill.
Includes letters from Bishop John Ireland concerning sketches for the St. Paul Seminary (1891).
Clerk to President Hill, St. Paul office, 1880-1883, and Northern Division superintendent, Crookston, Minnesota, 1883-1889, the Manitoba; general manager, Montana Central Railway Company, 1889- .
Concerns the general business of the Manitoba and of the Montana Central Railway Company. Includes accident, fire, and crop reports; circulars dispersed by the companies; and letters (October-December 1889) concerning the coal problem, particularly a fire at an Anaconda, Montana mine.
Includes monthly statistics statements for the Montana Central Railway Company, 1891-1892 (filed under L.E. Johnson, superintendent).
Financial advisor, New York City, for the Manitoba and Great Northern; trustee, 1879-1883, and vice president, 1883-1889, the Manitoba.
Consists of correspondence covering the initial organization of the Manitoba and its subsequent growth and expansion. Of the Hill correspondence, it contains the most detailed description of the financial and legal aspects of the organizational period. Contains many telegrams, a substanial number in code (Kennedy's code name was Waft), and many letters to R.B. Angus. Includes letters dealing with bond and stock negotiations in the Netherlands and the United States (1879); second mortgage bonds and J.P. Farley vs. the Manitoba Trustees (1880); relations with the Canadian government (1881); the consolidated mortgage (1883); contracts with the Chicago, Burlington, and Northern Railroad Company and the redemption of the first mortgage bonds (1886); and a letter (October 22, 1886) covering in great detail the building, both physically and financially, that the railroad would need to complete in the following ten months.
Bankers; financial advisors to the Manitoba.
Concerns mainly the financial operations of the Manitoba, the majority of the letters being written to Hill from J. Kennedy Tod. Also contains a series to R. B. Angus. Includes letters concerning receivers debentures and the Dutch investors (1878); the recording of the orginal mortgage deed with the Secretary of State (June 1879); listing of the members of the "STPM& M Railway 6% Second Mortgage Bond Syndicate" and amounts of subscription (December 1879); official sales of Manitoba thirty-year second mortgage bonds (1880); approval of the Central Trust Company as trustee for Manitoba bonds (February 1880); and an incomplete series of Manitoba private account leger pages (October 16-July 27, 1881). (See also Tod, J. Kennedy and Tod (J. Kennedy) & Company, box 15)
Includes requests from Kuhles & Stock, cigar manufacturers, St. Paul, to use Hill's picture and the Great Northern name on a cigar label (1889-1890), and letters from Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York City, concerning the sale of Manitoba and Great Northern consolidated mortgage bonds on the German market (1888-1892).
President, Fairhaven Land Company, Fairhaven, Washington, and Skagit Coal and Transportation Company, Fairhaven Coal Mines, Sedro, Washington.
Reports to Hill on Washington, particularly the Puget Sound area and the Fairhaven coal mines. Several are from J.J. Donovan, chief engineer, Fairhaven and Southern Railroad.
Deals with freight and rebate claims, settlement of accounts, and the condition of freight handled by these selling agents. Includes letters from Leonard and Phillip Lewisohn.
Attorney, Minneapolis; president, Minneapolis Street Railway Company and Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad.
Concerns mainly right-of-way cases, bond sales, and land sales in Minneapolis. Includes a statement of earnings of the Minneapolis Street Railway Company (1889-1890); a copy of the May 1891 certificate of incorporation of the Twin City Rapid Transit Company; and Hill's June 1891 declination of a directorship in the transit company.
Assistant general superintendent and purchasing agent, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, 1881; assistant general manager, 1881-1882; general manager, 1882-1889, and vice president and general manager, 1889, the Manitoba; president, Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railroad Company, 1889-1893.
Deals with the day-to-day operations of the Manitoba, such as purchase and sale of cars, ties, rails, and engines; post office routes; machinery in the shops; movement of trains; amount of track laid; bills owed; crop reports from along the line; tariffs; and earnings and auditors' reports. Much of the correspondence is in telegram form, many in code. Includes Hill's offer of a position (1881); letters about the division of territory between the Manitoba and the Northern Pacific (1882); the relationship with the Northern Pacific (1883); the opening of the Hotel Lafayette in Minnetonka, Minnesota (June 1887); the erection of smelting works at Great Falls, Montana (1887); reports on coal output for 1889; Manvel's resignation (1889); and a number of introduction and recommendation letters (1890-1892).
Railroad commissioner, State of Minnesota.
Concerns mainly complaints of inadequate wood and car supplies along the Minnesota portion of the line, and land deeds owned by the railroad.
Publisher,
Deals mainly with settlement in the Red River Valley, and Mattson wishing to aid the Manitoba and Great Northern land departments through his newspaper connections.
Roadmaster, the Manitoba, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, 1879-1889; superintendent, Montana Division, the Manitoba and Great Northern.
Includes complaints, pass requests, and estimates (March 1883) on the cost of material and improvement on the Breckinridge Division.
Chief engineer, St. Paul, the Manitoba and Great Northern.
Includes reports on track examinations, grading, surfacing, work progress, and cost estimates.
General manager, 1885-1888, and president, 1888-1890, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway; president, Western Traffic Association, 1891- .
Concerns rate fights, pass requests, job recommendations and (following 1891) the general and advisory board business of the Western Traffic Association.
Second vice president, St. Paul, the Manitoba, 1886-1887; president, 1888-1889[?], and general manager, 1889[?], Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota, St. Paul.
Subjects include shipping between Minneapolis and Duluth (1885); the Montana extension (December 1886); the proposed traffic agreement between the Manitoba and the Eastern Companies (February 1888); and Eastern bonds (February 1889).
Includes a letter from Walter Moberly dealing with a line to connect the Manitoba and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (1888).
Corresponding secretary to President Hill.
Deals with the daily happenings of the St. Paul office, including reports to Hill on accidents along the line, construction progress, weather, and passes requested.
General freight agent, Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; land commissioner, 1886-1887, general freight agent, 1887-1889, assistant general manager, 1889, and general manager, 1889-1890, the Manitoba; general manager, Great Northern, 1890-1893.
Contains mostly operational reports on such matters as rates, rails, cars, shipment orders, bonds, weather, crops, building progress, wheat shipments, coal, amount of track laid, number of ties in stock, freight car statistics, milages, broken rails, and amount of coal consumed. Includes letters concerning Indian land title in the Devil's Lake, Dakota area (1886); weekly land department transaction statements (April 1886-July 1887); timber cutting contracts (November 1889); report on a trip to the West Coast and the virtues of various cities for the western terminus (December 1889); cost estimates for the Hotel Lafayette (February 1890); the season's listing of Hotel Lafayette guests (September 1890); concerning reducing passenger service from St. Paul to Duluth during the winter (October 1890); about abolishing commissions on passenger business to points in competition with the Northern Pacific (January 1891); statement of track/tie requirements and allotments for 1891 (May 1891); cost estimates on new line constructions (July 1891); statements of mileage and earnings of various cars on the Great Northern lines (August 1891); an incomplete series of daily telegrams of wheat receipts (September-December 1891); a report of Mohler's observations on a trip to Montana (November 1891); and a list of Great Northern officers for 1892 (December 1891). Also found throughout the folders is an incomplete series of monthly wheat load reports.
President, Union Steel Company, Chicago, 1888-1890.
Mainly concerns the ordering and shipment of rails by the Manitoba and Great Northern. Also discusses coal and iron ore deposits in Montana (1888); manganese ore deposits near Great Falls, Montana (1889); and eighty-pound rails for the Pacific Extension mountain lines (May-September 1891).
Superintendent, Great Northern; Seattle & Montana Railway Company; Seattle, Fairhaven and Southern Railroad Company; and New Westminster and Southern Railway Company, 1891.
Includes reports and correspondence on rates, line extensions; relations with the Northern Pacific, weather, and track conditions.
Attorney, Alexandria, Minnesota, 1871-1923; Minnesota state senator, 1875-1878; U.S. Representative, 1883-1889.
Concerns mainly construction and right-of-way problems from Alexandria to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, including introduction letters, pass requests, and requests for aid in getting adequate wood and car supplies.
Includes a request from W. H. Newman for aid to drought-stricken farmers in Dakota (1890).
Assistant secretary, assistant treasurer and secretary, 1888, and treasurer and assistant secretary, 1888-1890, the Manitoba, New York City; treasurer and assistant secretary, 1890, and vice president, secretary, and treasurer, 1890- , Great Northern, New York City.
Deals mainly with the financial operations of the railroad, such as financial position, annual and crop reports, and letters concerning stocks, bonds, securities, deeds, dividends, passes, and board meetings. During September and October 1890, many of the letters are signed N. Terhune, cashier, and during 1892 the majority are sent to T.J. Hyman, assistant to Hill. Includes correspondence concerning sale of the consolidated mortgage bonds (1882-1883); the second mortgage bonds (March 1884); approval of the Montana extension mortgage (1887); the appointment of Henry D. Minot as vice-president of the Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota (1888); the placing of the Montana extension bonds on the stock exchange (January 1889); a comparative analysis of the Manitoba's stockholders for 1889 and 1890 (January 1891); memorandum on the amount of Manitoba stock registered in bankers' and brokers' names in Boston and New York City (April 1890); statement of proceeds of sales of Manitoba stock (June-November 1890); revision and amendment of the Pacific extension mortgage (July 1890); need for an office for the transfer and registry of Manitoba stock in London (March 1891); and the sale of Manitoba stock (October 1891).
Concerns orders, shipments, deliveries, and payments to these manufacturers of merchant bars, fish plates, pig metal, and iron and steel rails. Includes several letters to the St. Paul and Pacific Railway and J.P. Farley. (See also Potter, O.W., box 12.)
Letters from the St. Paul general manager's office while under H.E. Sargeant (1879-1880) and H. Haupt (1881- ), and the New York City treasurer's office under Robert Lenox Belknap. Includes letters concerning a charge of the Manitoba crossing Northern Pacific right-of-way (1879); the hauling of the Manitoba's passengers by the Northern Pacific (August 1880); and accounts between the two companies (May 1881).
Includes letters from F. P. Olcott, vice president, Central Trust Company, New York City, concerning the consolidated mortgages of the Manitoba (1887-1888).
Vice president and general manager, 1884-1886, general manager (St. Paul), 1886, and president (New York City), 1891-1896(?), Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Mainly pass requests.
Concerns orders, shipments, prices, and building specifications.
Includes letters from N. G. Ordway dealing with the development of the Devil's Lake, North Dakota area (1882-1890).
Includes letters from C. E. Page describing the work of the Red River Valley Drainage Commission, 1886-1887.
President, First National Bank of Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
Deals mainly with the railroad's business in the Fergus Falls area, including buying right-of-way land (1879-1880), spur tracks to the Otter Tail River (1880), and the depot location (1882).
Includes letters from Charles G. Parsons concerning townsite deeds of Great Falls, Montana (1889-1890).
Master mechanic, St. Paul and Great Falls, Montana, the Manitoba; Great Northern master mechanic, St. Paul.
Reports from the shops, including amount of coal used on the line (1889), changing the cab type on the locomotives (1891), and a new type of car heating system (1892).
T. W. Pearsall & Company, New York City.
Mainly telegrams, many in code, concerning passes and the movement of various stocks on the market.
Concerns shipments of rails and iron, the majority being sent from the North Chicago Mills and Joliet Steel Company Mills, Chicago.
President, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, Boston, 1881-1901.
Mainly pass requests and telegrams to set up and confirm appointments with Hill. Includes letters concerning Major A.B. Rogers' reconnaissance reports for the trans-continental line (1887) and Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company stock (1891).
C. A. Pillsbury & Company, Flouring Mills, Minneapolis; managing director, Pillsbury & Washburn Flour Mills Company, Ltd., Minneapolis; president, Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company, Minneapolis; Minnesota state senator, 1877-1887.
Deals mainly with the need for side tracks to the mills, contracts for freight with the Manitoba and Great Northern, the number of cars needed for wheat shipments, steamship rates on the Great Lakes, and vouchers from elevators along the railroad line. Includes items concerning the shortline right-of-way between Minneapolis and St. Paul (1881); condemnation proceedings of the Minneapolis Eastern and Minneapolis Western Railways (1891); and a substantial number concerning the cost of moving Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company elevators at Brandon, Dalton, and Ashby, Minnesota during 1888 because of a Great Northern track grade change (1890).
Attorney, Pinney & Sanborn, Madison, Wisconsin.
Concerns mainly land grant legislation for the Manitoba, including a case involving the Northern Pacific and the St. Paul and Pacific (1884), and a case regarding Dakota lands (1885).
President, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Line, Chicago; chairman, Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company, Chicago, and Chicago and Illinois Railroad Company.
Mainly pass requests and introduction and recommendation letters.
President, North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, Chicago, 1871-1889.
Deals with contracts; order, shipment, and delivery of rails; recycling of iron rails replaced by steel rails; and requests for payment. (See also North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, box 11.)
Superintendent, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway, Minneapolis.
Includes correspondence concerning sale of old rails (1879); type of pumps used in the St. Paul stockyards (1880); and the elevation of the Minneapolis Union Depot platforms (1881).
Requests for trip passes (August-October 1890), signed by Tams Bixby, secretary.
Letters from Chicago and from Alexandria and several other small Minnesota stations, dealing mainly with the lack of cars and ties and other general complaints.
Secretary to President Hill, St. Paul.
Mainly forwarding messages to Hill in New York and reporting on the weather, progress on the line, and general daily business. Includes a number of coded messages and several letters to A.L. Mohler.
Treasurer and general manager, Northwestern Elevator Company, Minneapolis, 1882-1906.
Deals mainly with freight rates, the building of elevators along the line, and the need for more cars to ship wheat.
Includes reports from A. B. Rogers describing surveys he made for the railroad in the Rocky and Cascade mountains (1881-1882, 1886-1889).
Treasurer and secretary, 1879, and St. Paul land commissioner, 1879-1892, for the Manitoba, Great Northern, Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota, Montana Central Railway, and Minneapolis Union Railway.
Includes notices of board of directors meetings and telegrams concerning stocks, bonds, particularly Dakota Extension bonds (1882), dividends, and vouchers. Many of the telegrams are in code.
Banker, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York City.
Includes a long series on the possibility of settling Russian-Jewish families in a colony at Milaca in eastern Minnesota, set up through the Baron de Hirsch committee and prepared by Hill. (See also Kuhn, Loeb, & Company, box 8.)
Concerns buying of land for the railroad right-of-way in the Alexandria and Fergus Falls, Minnesota area. Includes vouchers listing amounts and to whom paid.
General manager, Montana Central Railway Company, Helena, Montana, 1888; assistant general manager, the Manitoba and Great Northern, 1890; Great Northern general traffic manager, St. Paul, August 1890- .
Includes brochures and flyers concerning rates and tariffs, particularly dealing with joint agreements between lines; lists of equipment needed; monthly financial statements for 1891; passes issued; and letters dealing with shipment rates, freight tonnage on the Northern Steamship line (1890), passenger traffic between St. Paul and Duluth, and immigration plans for the line (September 1890).
Railroad contractor, St. Paul, as D. C. Shepard & Company, 1886, Shepard, Winston & Company, 1887, and Shepard, Siems & Company, 1890. Chief contractor of the Manitoba from Minot, North Dakota to Helena, Montana.
Deals with construction work on the line, including surveys, gradings, and accounts.
London Agent, the Manitoba and Great Northern; a signer of the 1894 "London Agreement" to acquire the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for the Great Northern.
Mainly telegrams dealing with the Manitoba's bonds and the leasing of them to the Great Northern. Some of the telegrams are in code (Skinner's code name was Desollar).
Train dispatcher, St. Paul, 1881, and Northern Division superintendent, Crookston, Minnesota, 1882, the Manitoba; superintendent, Colorado Division, Union Pacific Railway, 1883.
Includes pass requests, car reports, and complaint reports from along the line.
Member, organizing syndicate, the Manitoba, 1879; member, organizing syndicate Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1880; president, Bank of Montreal, 1887-1905.
Includes letters concerning the syndicate's work in organizing the Manitoba (1877); stock transfers, (1879); and progression of work on the line (1880). (See also Canadian Pacific Railway Company files, box 17.)
President, Oregon Improvement Company, New York City.
Includes list of stocks, liabilities, and assets of the Oregon Improvement Company (1890), and a financial statement and consolidated mortgage booklet for 1882-1889.
General solicitor, the Manitoba right-of-way office, St. Paul.
Mainly telegrams from Washington, D. C., dealing with legislation and court cases involving the railroad.
President, Bank of Montreal, 1876-1881; member, organizing syndicate, the Manitoba, 1879; member, organizing syndicate Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1880; president, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1881-1888.
Concerns mainly the organization of the Manitoba, its subsequent growth and development through its absorption by the Great Northern, and the further development of the Great Northern. Includes many letters on the financial workings of the Manitoba and Great Northern; the terms for leasing the Manitoba to the Great Northern, 1890 (with a very long and explicit letter from Hill describing the building of the line to the West Coast); and the selling of bonds (1891-1892). Includes many telegrams, some in code (Stephen's code name was Estavan), and several letters to R.B. Angus. (See also Canadian Pacific Railway Company files, box 17.)
Private secretary to President Hill.
Messages relaying office correspondence and information concerning the Hill family to Hill while out of the St. Paul office.
Attorney, Shearman & Sterling, New York City.
Includes many telegrams, some coded, from Sterling as representative of George Stephen and Donald A. Smith, arranging meetings with Hill.
Treasurer, Joliet Steel Company, Chicago.
Deals with the purchasing contracts and shipment of rails to the Manitoba. Several are to R.B. Angus.
U. S. Representative, Washington, D. C. (from Shakopee, Minnesota).
Mainly concerns legislation dealing with the railroads, including townsites, land grants, and land districts.
Superintendent, the Manitoba's Northern Division, Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
Reports on track condition, cars, freight shipments, ties, rates, trackwork, complaints, accidents, and general progress.
Vice-President, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Philadelphia.
Introduction, recommendation, and appointment telegrams, and telegrams concerning an 1889 hunting trip to Minnesota and Dakota.
Banker, J. S. Kennedy & Company, New York City; J. Kennedy Tod & Company, New York City.
Mainly financial correspondence concerning the railroad's stocks, bonds, and dividends. Includes letters about the Dakota Extension bonds (1882); dealings with Kuhn, Loeb & Company, particularly Jacob Schiff, concerning Montana Central Railroad bonds (1891); and a copy of Thomas Skinner's prospectus on the Manitoba bonds leased to Great Northern. (See also Kennedy (J.S.) & Co.; box 7.)
Financial correspondence concerning the railroad, letters from 1879-1883 being from Tod while still in the employ of J.S. Kennedy & Company Includes introduction letters; telegrams, some in code; addition sheets to the code; and letters dealing with the Manitoba's stock (1889-1890), an addition to the Great Falls, Montana townsite (1890), and the purchase of additional bonds of the Sioux City and Northern Railway Company (1891).
Includes a memorandum of agreement between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Southern Pacific Company, Union Pacific Company, Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe System, Missouri Pacific System, and Texas and Pacific Railway Company (December 1890); and the chairman's statements for March and May 1891.
Vice president, 1883-1887, and president, 1887-1894, Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, Minneapolis.
Includes correspondence concerning depots, crossings, rights-of-way, and an 1886 settlement of accounts between the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway and the Manitoba.
General superintendent, 1880-1881, and general manager, 1882-1884, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Includes pass requests and recommendation letters. (See also Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Van Horne file, box 17.)
Memorandum on sales to the railroad, including amount of rails ordered, types of rails, information on deliveries, prices, reasons for delay, and freight rates.
Proprietor, Clearwater Roller Mills and Cold Springs Roller Mills, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Concerns Waite's wish for a track to Cold Springs, Minnesota, and the location of the railroad's car repair shops in St. Cloud.
General car agent, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Milwaukee, 1879-1880; superintendent, 1881-1888, and assistant general manager, 1889-1890, the Manitoba; assistant general manager, Great Northern, 1891-1893.
Includes general reports on wrecks, track conditions) timetable changes, car locations, track construction, and deliveries along the line.
Includes a report to Hill from Thomas J. Wallace covering a trip over the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (1889).
Secretary, chief clerk, and general manager, Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota, St. Paul, 1888-1890; secretary to President Hill, Great Northern, 1891-1894.
Mainly telegrams to Hill giving Ward's location while inspecting the line; some in code.
General passenger agent and comptroller, the Manitoba; comptroller, Montana Central Railway; comptroller, Great Northern.
Deals with daily business concerns such as rates and unpaid vouchers. Includes letters on the renting of the St. Paul Hinckley line to the Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota (1889); the accounts of the Hotel Lafayette (1890); accounts with Shepard, Siems & Company (see box 13), Montana Smelting Company, and Minneapolis Union Railway (1891); and the switch from the American Express Company to the Great Northern Express Company (1892).
President, Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, Minneapolis, 1877-1878; W.D. Washburn & Company, Minneapolis, 1879- ; U.S. Representative, 1879-1885; president, Minneapolis and Pacific Railway Company, Minneapolis, 1886- ; president, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company, Minneapolis, 1888- .
Concerns the general problems of railroading, flour milling, and lumbering, including items on right-of-way problems; the need of a track to Anoka, Minnesota's flour mills (1879); and Washburn's wish to run a steamboat on Lake Minnetonka in conjunction with the Manitoba (1880-1881).
Real estate and lumber dealer, St. Paul.
Mainly pass and job requests to F. L. Moffett (see box 10).
Reports on wheat and corn crops in Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky.
Includes letters to its advisory board (Hill was a member) about such things as rates and tariffs; Circulars No. 83-99 (August-September 1892); and the withdrawal of the Great Northern from the association (December 1892).
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, Faribault.
Includes recommendation and introduction letters and pass requests.
Includes letters from F. I. Whitney concerning relations with the Northern Pacific, 1890-1892.
General superintendent, Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Line, 1880-1883; and assistant president, 1883-1886, and general manager, 1886-1895, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Line.
Pass requests and general correspondence dealing with crossings, rates, and contracts.
These files cover Hill's activities in the operation of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Montreal; the St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company, Minneapolis; and the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, St. Paul.
The correspondence found in the Canadian Pacific files reflects Hill's position as a director of the company, 1880-1883. Included in these files are charter and contract negotiations, exploration and construction reports, financial and operational correspondence and statements, notifications of directors and stockholders meetings, freight and passenger rates, pass requests, job applications, and negotiations and agreements with other railroads.
Contains letters from J. N. Abbott, assistant to Hill, the Manitoba; W.R. Baker, general manager's assistant, Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Alexander Begg, land agent, Canadian Pacific Railway Company; and George P. Black, cashier, Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Included are numerous pass requests; letters between Abbott and R.B. Angus concerning the passage of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company charter through the Canadian Parliament (1880-1881); and reports from A.B. Rogers' surveying trip along the Columbia River (enclosures in Baker's letters, 1882).
Concerns the development of the organlzlng syndicate of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the passage of the railroad's charter through the Canadian Parliament.
Includes notification of directors and stockholders meetings; renumeration checks to Hill as a member of the executive committee; introduction letters; many reports from engineers along the line; and letters concerning immigration matters involving the railroad. Several letters are to R.B. Angus and A.B. Stickney.
Contains letters from J. M. Egan, general superintendent, Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway Company; from Langdon, Shepard & Company, contractors, St. Paul, dealing with contract and construction delays along the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (1882); from J.H. McTavish, land commissioner, Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, dealing with settlement (1881); from D.W. Rodgers, engineer, Manitoba Division, Canadian Pacific Railway Company; and from Thomas Lafayette Rosser, chief engineer, Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
Includes introduction letters and pass requests.
Contains letters from Collingwood Schreiber, chief engineer, Government Railways in Operation, Ottawa, and John F. Stevens, engineer, Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Includes and 1882 application to place Canadian Pacific Railway Company stock on the New York Stock Exchange; a series between Schreiber and Hill covering an agreement for interchange of traffic between the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Manitoba (1879-1883); and an enclosure in a John F. Stevens letter comparing amounts of material to be used on the line as located in 1881 with those actually used as built in 1882. Several letters of George Stephen originally found in this folder have been moved into the General Alphabetical Files, box 14.
Manager and general superintendent, western division, Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
Includes information on general railroad surveys, rates, freight supplies, car delays, rails, pass requests, and amount of track laid.
The St. Anthony Falls Water Power Company letters cover the period during which Hill was the major stockholder and president of the company (1882-1890). The correspondence mainly gives an overview of the company's daily operations and problems, including reports on the amount of available waterpower, correspondence with both federal and local governments, and financial and operational statements and comments.
Includes a report on the company's waterpower potential by William E. Worthin (1880); letters from P.J. Cable, superintendent, Rock Island and Mercer County Railroad, concerning land sale at the Falls (1882); letters from W. De la Barre, engineer and agent, the Minneapolis Mill Company, concerning debris left floating in the Mississippi River during the construction of Hill's suspension bridge (1884), and from Dr. Thomas F. Quinby, Minneapolis health officer, about garbage and disease on Hennepin Island (1885); and a comparison of the 1883 and 1885 company receipts and expenditures (1886). A majority of the letters are from E.W. Trask (1882-1883) and L.S. Gillettee (1883-1889), company agents.
Also included is Hill's 1890 resignation from the position of company president.
The St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company files (3 folders), covering the years during which Hill was a member of its executive committee (1881-1887), contain mainly operational correspondence on the daily business of the railroad. Included are pass requests, job applications, trade and track agreements with other railroads, financial correspondence and negotiations, and notifications of board and stockholders meetings. Many of the letters are written to Hill from other officers and employees of the railroad, particularly James Smith, president (1881-1886), Richard Somers Hayes, president (1888-1890), and William Rhawn, vice president (1877-1887).
Includes two wharf rental agreements between the railroad and E.N. Saunders Company (April 10 and November 18, 1879); two letters (1881) concerning the preferred stock of the company and failure to reach an agreement with the Washburn Mills; a series of letters concerning the bonds and sale of the Taylors Falls and Lake Superior Railroad Company (1883-1884); and notices of board meetings (1884-1886).
Discusses coal rates, the number of runs between St. Paul and Duluth, and the transfer of Kettle River Railroad Company stock to the Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota (1891).
Mainly legal correspondence concerning bonds, stocks, leases, and dividends.
The Oversize Enclosures, 1882-1892, consist of maps, blueprints, advertising circulars, plats, financial sheet statements, and time tables withdrawn from the general alphabetical and miscellaneous company files for placement in more appropriate storage. They are listed in the order in which they were removed from the first two series. The oversize folder contains seven items too large to fit into box 19.
Separated from James Bardon to Hill, September 22, 1891.
Separated from James Bardon to Hill, September 22, 1891.
Separated from Barney, E.J., September 1887.
Separated from A.M. Kittredge, superintendent, Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company to L.P. Richardson (filed under Barney, E.J.).
Separated from E.H. Beckler to C.A. Broadwater, 1889.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, September 29, 1889.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, December 7, 1889.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, July 2, 1890.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, November 29, 1890.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, December 3, 1890.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, March 7, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, April 15, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, May 9, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, May 26, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, June 13, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, June 13, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, August 13, 1891.
Separated from William P. Watson to Hill, September 16, 1891 (filed under Beckler, E.H.).
Separated from Beckler to Hill, October 7, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, October 26, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, October 27, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, October 29, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, December 21, 1891.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, January 9, 1892.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, May 6, 1892.
Separated from Hill to Beckler, June 16, 1892.
Separated from Beckler to Hill, June 18, 1892.
Separated from Jos. W. Blabon to Hill, May 17, 1892.
Separated from Mrs. J.F. Blake to Hill, December 22, 1890.
Separated from John D. Boyd to Hill, March 10, 1892.
Separated from J. Bookwalter to [?], July 18, 1890.
Separated from J. Bookwalter to Hill, October 23, 1891.
Separated from J.Bookwalter to Hill, May 4, 1892.
Separated from J.Bookwalter to Hill, May 4, 1892.
Separated from Brooks Locomotive Works to Hill, January 29, 1891.
Separated from C.L. Brown to Hill, July 18, 1887.
Separated from Burke, Shepard & Woods to Hill, December 2, 1891.
Separated from folder CAN (filed under Canal, Proposed Seattle Ship, February 2, 1892) [on roll, in box 18].
Separated from George W. Colburn, et al., to Hill, May 16, 1892.
Separated from C.E. Conrad to J.B. Conner, January 12, 1892.
Separated from J.A. Coram to Hill, March 14, 1891.
Separated from Dearborn to Hill, April 7, 1892.
Separated from Samuel Rockwell to Henry D. Minot, January 29, 1890 (filed under Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota).
Separated from Eichhorn (E.) & Sons to Hill, August 6, 1891.
Separated from George W. Elliott to Hill, March 4, 1892 [maps are stapled together].
Separated from W.F. Fitch to Hill, May 3, 1890.
Separated from John Gordon to Hill, April 4, 1890.
Separated from M.D. Grover to Hill, May 12, 1892.
Loose item separated from Edmund Hackett folder.
Separated from George H. Hopper to Hill, November 15, 1882.
Separated from H.C. Ives to Hill, November 19, 1889.
Separated from letter, Jules Lambert to James Hillers (sic), January 8, 1887.
Separated from Lewis (Ray T.) & Son to Hill, October 5, 1891.
Loose items separated from Allen Manvel, January-March 1889 folder.
Separated from May (Henry) & Company to Hill, March 31, 1892.
Separated from N.D. Miller to Hill, July 22, 1886.
Separated from Mrs. Mary Monti to Hill, July 29, 1891.
Loose item separated from A.L. Mohler, October-December 1890 folder.
Separated from Ance Northrup to Hill, January 5, 1887.
Separated from Ramapo Wheel & Foundry Company to Hill, July 28, 1890.
Separated from William Reid to L.P. Richardson, June 26, 1890.
Separated from William Reid to Hill, October 26, 1890.
Separated from A.B. Rogers to Hill, December 15, 1886.
Separated from Clark S. Rowe to Hill, July 6, 1891.
Separated from E.G. Russell to Joseph Pattie, January 16, 1892.
Separated from F.L. Schurmeier to Hill, March 28, 1892.
Separated from Orlando Tenney to Hill, April 22, 1891.
Separated from W.A. Truesdell to Hill, November 14, 1891.
Separated from A. DeCosmos to Hill, August 11, 1890 [filed under Victoria, Saanich and New Westminster Railway Company].
Separated from E.B. Wakeman to Hill, June 2, 1891.
Separated from E.B. Wakeman to Hil, July 7, 1891.
Separated from A.D. Walker to Hill, March 16, 1888.
Separated from E.W. Wilkinson to Hill, April 14, 1891.
Separated from H. Williams to Hill, November 27, 1891.
Separated from Otto Zardetti to Hill, March 12, 1892.
Separated from W.C. Van Horne to Hill, July 14, 1890.
Separated from R.S. Hayes to Hill, January 8, 1892.
These items were found loose in the James J. Hill Correspondence.