Samuel Hill

Samuel Hill (May 13, 1857 – February 26, 1931), usually known as Sam Hill, was an American businessman, lawyer, railroad executive and advocate of good roads in the Pacific Northwest. He substantially influenced the region's economic development in the early 20th century.

His projects include the Peace Arch, a monument to 100 years of peace between the United States and Canada, on the border between Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia; the Maryhill Museum of Art, a building originally conceived as a residence; and Maryhill Stonehenge, a replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington, a memorial to fallen World War I soldiers from Klickitat County, Washington.

Sam Hill was born into a Quaker family in Deep River, North Carolina. Displaced by the American Civil War, he grew up after the war in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from Haverford College in 1878 and Harvard University in 1879, he returned to Minneapolis, where he practiced law. 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. They also became family in 1888, when Sam Hill married J. J. Hill's eldest daughter Mary.

...
Wikipedia