James J. Hill seated in automobile, Seattle, circa 1910

• Main Author: Anderson, J. E.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1910
• Subjects: Business people > American > Washington (State) > Seattle Portrait photographs; Hill; James J. (James Jerome); 1838-1916; Yukon; Pacific; Finn; Burlington; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/12987

Canadian-American railroad executive James Jerome Hill (1838-1916), nicknamed the "Empire Builder," was perhaps more significant to the framing of the empire of the Pacific Northwest than any other individual. He built the Great Northern Railroad and also controlled the Northern Pacific an...