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Harry Hill (sportsman)
Harry Hill (1827 – August 27, 1896) was an English-born American businessman, sportsman and saloonkeeper whose establishments were regular meeting places for sportsmen, gamblers and politicians as well as members of the criminal underworld of New York City during the late 19th century. The most famous of these was his Bowery gambling resort located on West Houston Street east of Broadway and was long considered ''"one of the sights of the metropolis"'' from the 1850s until its close in 1886.〔Asbury, Herbert. ''The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. (pg. 166-170, 174, 229) ISBN 1-56025-275-8〕
== Background ==
Harry Hill was born in Epsom, England around 1827. Spending his childhood at the local Epsom Downs Racecourse, his uncle was a prominent gambler and served as the betting commissioner of Lord George Bentinck for a number of years. In 1850, he became acquainted with George M. Woolsley, part owner of the sugar manufacturing firm ''Howland, Aspinwall & Woolsey'', and later hired him to run his horse stable in Astoria. In addition to free room and board, Hill would receive a yearly salary of $150. Two years later, Hill moved to New York where he became a successful horse dealer in the neighborhood of Third Avenue and Twenty-Fifth Street.
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