Samuel Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sam Hill was born into a Quaker family in Deep River, North Carolina.[2] Displaced by the American Civil War, he grew up after the war in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[3] After graduating from Haverford College in 1878 and Harvard University in 1879, he returned to Minneapolis, where he practiced law.[4] A number of successful lawsuits against the Great Northern Railway attracted the attention of the railway's general manager James J. Hill, who hired him to represent the railway.[5] They also became family in 1888, when Sam Hill married J. J. Hill's eldest daughter Mary.[6]
