John A. Hill

John A. Hill

John A. Hill was a co-founder of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

In the 1880s Hill worked as an editor at "Locomotive Engineer". Over the next few years he would produce several technical and trade publications, eventually forming his own company, "The Hill Publishing Company", in 1902.

Hill had known James H. McGraw, 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. 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".cite web| title=About Us: Corporate History: The Foundation | url=http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/aboutus/history.shtml | accessdate=May 26 | accessyear=2007]

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