. Little journeys to the homes of the great . JAMES J. HILL JAMES J. HILL. AMES JEROME HILL has onecredential, at least, to greatness—he was born in a log let the painful fact be statedat once, without apology, that hecould never be President of theUnited States, because this historiclog house was situated in exact spot is about three miles from the villageof Rockwood, Wellington County, is seven miles east of Guelph, forty fromToronto, and a hundred from Hill well remembers his first visit to went with his father, with a load of far


. Little journeys to the homes of the great . JAMES J. HILL JAMES J. HILL. AMES JEROME HILL has onecredential, at least, to greatness—he was born in a log let the painful fact be statedat once, without apology, that hecould never be President of theUnited States, because this historiclog house was situated in exact spot is about three miles from the villageof Rockwood, Wellington County, is seven miles east of Guelph, forty fromToronto, and a hundred from Hill well remembers his first visit to went with his father, with a load of farm took two days to go and two to return, and for theirload they got the princely sum of seven dollars, withwhich they counted themselves Hill, the father of James Jerome Hill, was aNorth of Ireland man; his wife was Anne Dunbar,good and Scotch. I saw a portrait of Anne DunbarHill in Mr. Hills residence at Saint Paul, and wasalso shown the daguerreotype from which it was shows a woman of decided personality, strong infeature, frank, fea


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