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James Jerome Hill Research Paper

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James Jerome Hill was born on September sixteenth, 1838 in Wellington, Canada in the province of Ontario. His father was James Hill and his mother was Ann Dunbar, they married in 1833. Together they had 4 children the first son James died at birth, their oldest was Mary Elizabeth. James J. Hill was the middle child and the youngest was Alexander Samuel, they were a year apart. In the Hill family most, of the boys had the name, James. At the age of 14, James got a job working at Rockwood where he got paid a dollar or two each week. He would milk the cows and chop wood, here he also learned how to communicate with customers. The three siblings moved to Guelph together after Mary got married. Both Mary and Alexander wanted have children and

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