Born in 1883, Gertrude Hill was a child of privilege. She was the youngest daughter of 10 children sired by James J. Hill, one of the richest and most powerful men in America, who made his fortune laying down a railroad from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, a distance of more than 1,700 miles. And when she married at the turn of the last century, she took her inheritance and bought a…
