Samuel Hill (13 May 1857 – 26 February 1931), [1] was an American businessman, lawyer, railroad executive, and advocate of good roads. He substantially influenced the Pacific Northwest region's economic development in the early 20th century.

Feb 6, 2022 · Hill convinced legislators to create the Oregon Highway Commission and was the driving force behind the Columbia River Highway.

Sam Hill (1857–1931), founder of the Maryhill Museum of Art, was one of the most colorful and influential figures in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s. He was a successful businessman, world traveler, builder of monuments, and early advocate of paved roads.

Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?").

Sam Hill had great dreams for the Pacific Northwest, and himself. Out of the hardscrabble, do-it-yourself communities of loggers, farmers and ranchers that typified 19th-century Oregon, Hill...

Feb 28, 2019 · Have you ever heard your uncle or grandmother say, "What in Sam Hill …?" It's said in the same tone as "What in tarnation" or "What the H-E-double hockey sticks." It's a euphemism for "hell" or the devil. So where did the phrase originate? Was there a real Sam Hill?

Maryhill Museum of Art founder Sam Hill was one of the Northwest’s first and most vocal advocates for modern roads. He was president of the Washington State Good Roads Association and spent much of his life championing the importance of highways in the Northwest.

Jan 18, 2003 · By the end of the nineteenth century, Sam Hill was a wealthy and accomplished railroad executive, financial manager, and investor, and he was active in a wide range of civic groups and fraternal organizations.

Sam Hill, 1857-1931, built roads. He was born May 13, 1857, a Quaker, the fourth of six children. Roads ran in his family; Sam’s father, Nathan Bronson Hill, was a country doctor. Nathan Hill supported better conditions for farmers, proposed better roads, and was instrumental in building 44 miles of plank roads in North Carolina.

Feb 26, 2019 · Sam Hill, an ambitious businessman, and entrepreneur whose strongest passions included surface transportation died in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 73. While a number of stories about him are likely apocryphal – a key example being that he was the source of the popular saying “What in Sam Hill . . .” – it is beyond dispute that he ...