James J. Hill

James J. Hill

male, deceased (1916)
Canadian of Ulster-Scottish descent, Bourbon Democrat, Pre-Confederation Canadian business person, empire builder, midwest, chief executive officer…Great Plains, GreatNorthernRailroad, American railroad executive, Great Northern Railway
James Jerome Hill (September 16 1838 - May 29 1916), was a noted Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a...

Henry Davis Minot

male, deceased (1890)
GreatNorthernRailroad, Railroad accident victim, Jim Hill
Henry Davis Minot (18 August 1859 - 14 November 1890) was an investor in Jim Hill's Great Northern Railroad. Minot, North Dakota is named after...
John Frank Stevens

John Frank Stevens

male, deceased (1943)
Great Northern Railway, European American, panama, Canal engineer, Cascade Range, yellow fever…Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, GreatNorthernRailroad
John F. Stevens (25 April 1853-2 June 1943) built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal....
Peter Hill Beard

Peter Hill Beard

male, 71 years old
Socialite, Yale University, Colonialism, Infrastructure, colonization, GreatNorthernRailroad
Peter Hill Beard b. 22 January 1938 in New York is a photographer, artist, diarist and writer. Peter Beard began keeping diaries as a child and,...

Lester Hogan

male, 89 years old
physicist, inventor, American, Harvard University, transistor, American Electronics Association…GreatNorthernRailroad
Dr. Clarence Lester "Les" Hogan (born February 8, 1920) is a pioneer in microwave and semiconductor technology. - He grew up as brother of three...

Henry A. Smith

male
From Seattle, GreatNorthernRailroad, Battle of Seattle, Sealth
Dr. Henry A. Smith (1830-1915) was a poet, doctor and early settler of Seattle, best known today for writing a flowery translation of a speech by...
Horace Chapin Henry

Horace Chapin Henry

male, deceased (1928)
banker, Cascade Mountains, World War I, American railroad executive, puget sound, everett…GreatNorthernRailroad, Northern Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Horace Chapin Henry, 1844-1928, was an early Seattle businessman and founder of the Henry Art Gallery. He was born at the Henry House in...

Éamon A Búrc

male, deceased (1942)
Irish, connemara, archbishop, Irish language, Ediphone, County Galway…GreatNorthernRailroad
Éamon a Búrc,, tailor and legendary Irish storyteller or Seanachaí. Born to an Irish-speaking family in Cárna, County Galway, Ireland, Éamon a Búrc,...