Sublime

As always, he read incessantly.

and strategy.

Possibly knowing that the end was near, he spent more time now on philanthropy.

His near-manic preoccupation with his business gripped him like a demon.

But he never gave the citizens of Spokane the rate reductions he had promised.

everyone around the Saint Paul levees came to know “Jim” Hill, his name usually rendered as one word, “Jimhill,” a man who always seemed up on anything and everything that went on.

for Hill, the merger truly represented the capstone of his life’s work.

Jim Hill loved politics, both the bare-knuckled manipulation of favors and patronage and the philosophical discussion of the issues.