Like his fellow pioneer and longtime friend, Pendleton Dudley, John Wiley Hill was born and reared in agricultural America (the 1900 census was the nation’s first to show more people employed in industry than in agriculture) and like Dudley, Hill built a successful career as a public relations counselor to corporate giants of industrial America. Unlike Dudley’s agency that faded from the scene in the late 1980s, Hill’s public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton, Inc., continues as one of the world’s largest public relations firms. Of all the major firms started by the innovative band of men in the post World War I era, only one other still survives-Ketchum that Public Relations, Inc., which had its genesis when Carlton and George Ketchum opened a publicity office in Pittsburgh in 1919. The brothers split in 1923, Carlton going on to build a highly successful fund-raising firm and George an equally successful advertising and public relations agency.