Samuel Hill - Travels

Travels

An "inveterate globetrotter," Hill visited Japan nine times between 1897 and 1922 and made at least fifty separate trips to Europe in the course of his lifetime, all of this in an era when travel was entirely by surface transportation. Among the friends he made in his travels were King Albert I of Belgium, who made him a Commander of the Crown and Honorary Belgian Consul for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and Queen Marie of Romania, whose 1926 visit to the United States was largely at his behest, and who granted him the Order of the Crown in the Degree of the Grand Cross; and Marshall Joseph Joffre, whom Hill took on a trip around the world in 1922.

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