James Jerome Hill (September 1838 to May 1916) was the chief executive officer of the Great Northern Railway. He became known as "The Empire Builder" due to the size of his railways stretching between the Upper Northwest, Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest.
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James j hill was a railroad engineer and he built the great northerntransconntidental railway.
Great Northern Pacific Railroad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)
the j stands for James because his grandfather's name was James mccoy.
The Northern Securities Company was a short-lived American railroad trust formed in 1901 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan and their associates.
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Canadian-American James J. Hill was the creator of the Great Northern Railroad. He was a man of high public duty that believed that the railroad needed the land to be prosperous to thrive. The Great Northern Railroad didn't receive any land grants such as the other railroads. Hill did well in his construction of the rail.