William J. Hill

William J. Hill (March 3, 1840 – February 14, 1918) was a Canadian-American prospector, ferryman, newspaper publisher, and politician. He published the first daily newspaper in Idaho, the Idaho Daily Avalanche, in 1876. He was also the publisher of the California Salinas Index. Hill was a California state senator in 1880 and 1881 and mayor of Salinas, California between 1886-92 and then again in 1898.

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