John A. Hill
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John Alexander Hill was a co-founder of The McGraw-Hill Companies
McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...

. He was born in Sandgate, Vermont
Sandgate, Vermont
Sandgate is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 353 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 42.2 square miles , of which 42.2 square miles is land and 0.04 square mile is...

 on Feb. 22, 1858.

In the 1880s, prior to entering the publishing business, he'd owned and operated machine shops and been a railroad engineer
Railroad engineer
A railroad engineer, locomotive engineer, train operator, train driver or engine driver is a person who drives a train on a railroad...

. Beginning in 1888, Hill worked as an editor at Locomotive Engineer. Over the next few years he would produce several technical and trade publications. In 1896 he became president of the American Machinist Press.

He formed his own company, The Hill Publishing Company, in 1902. From 1900 to 1902 he served as mechanical engineer for the General Manifold Company, custom-designing machinery. As head of Hill Publishing he printed five weekly magazines: American Machinist,Power,Engineering News,The Engineering and Mining Journal, and Coal Age.

Hill had known James H. McGraw
James H. McGraw
James Herbert McGraw , born in Harmony, New York, USA, was co-founder of what is now The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was the president of McGraw-Hill from 1917 to 1928...

, who had established The McGraw Publishing Company in 1899, for some time and the two men shared similar interests. In 1909 they agreed upon an alliance and combined the book departments of their publishing companies into The McGraw-Hill Book Company. Hill served as president of this combined company from 1909 to 1916, the year he died unexpectedly of a heart condition.

The following year the remaining parts of Hill's company merged with McGraw's to form The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, which is known today as The McGraw-Hill Companies.
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