Failed business ventures and charges of fraud Their marriage was a fraught one due to Hill's alleged physical abuse of his wife and daughter in addition to his frequenting of prostitutes. In 1903 Hill married for the second time to Edith Whitman, in 1905 their child Edith Whitman Hill was born. Later in life, Hill would use the title of "Attorney of Law", although Hill's official biography notes that "there is no record of his having actually performed legal services for anyone." Hill left his coal mine management job soon afterward and enrolled in law school before withdrawing owing to a lack of funds. Author Richard Lingeman wrote that Hill received this job after arranging to keep confidential the death of a black bellhop whom the previous manager of the mine had accidentally shot while drunk. Ayers, a coal magnate and former Virginia attorney general. In 1901, Hill accepted a job working for the lawyer Rufus A. Early career Īt the age of seventeen, Hill graduated from high school and moved to Tazewell, Virginia, to attend business school. At the age of 15, he married a local girl who had accused him of fathering her child the girl later recanted the claim, and the marriage was annulled. His stepmother was a good influence for him: "Hill's stepmother, the widow of a school principal, civilized the wild-child, Napoleon, making him go to school and attend church." At the age of 13, Hill began writing as a "mountain reporter", initially for his father's newspaper. Hill's mother died when he was nine years old, and his father remarried two years later to Martha. His father was an unofficial dentist and was also a moonshiner. His grandfather came to the United States from England and settled in southwestern Virginia in 1847. His parents were James Monroe Hill and Sarah Sylvania (Blair) and he was the grandson of James Madison Hill and Elizabeth (Jones).
Hill was born in a one-room cabin near the Appalachian town of Pound in southwest Virginia. Gizmodo has called him "the most famous conman you've probably never heard of". Accused of fraud, modern historians also doubt many of his claims, such as that he met Andrew Carnegie and that he was an attorney.
Hill is, in modern times, a controversial figure. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success". Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Oliver Napoleon Hill (Octo– November 8, 1970) was an American self-help author.
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