<Dd> <Ul> <Li> Store owner in Arizona: Sam Hill was also a mercantile store owner who offered a vast and diverse inventory of goods . People began using the term "what in the Sam Hill is that?" to describe something they found odd or unusual, just like the inventory found in Sam Hill's store . The original Sam Hill Mercantile building still stands on Montezuma Street in Prescott, Arizona, and is listed on the register of Historic Places . </Li> </Ul> </Dd> <Ul> <Li> Store owner in Arizona: Sam Hill was also a mercantile store owner who offered a vast and diverse inventory of goods . People began using the term "what in the Sam Hill is that?" to describe something they found odd or unusual, just like the inventory found in Sam Hill's store . The original Sam Hill Mercantile building still stands on Montezuma Street in Prescott, Arizona, and is listed on the register of Historic Places . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Store owner in Arizona: Sam Hill was also a mercantile store owner who offered a vast and diverse inventory of goods . People began using the term "what in the Sam Hill is that?" to describe something they found odd or unusual, just like the inventory found in Sam Hill's store . The original Sam Hill Mercantile building still stands on Montezuma Street in Prescott, Arizona, and is listed on the register of Historic Places . </Li> <Dl> <Dd> <Ul> <Li> Politician in Connecticut: An article in the New England Magazine in December 1889 entitled "Two Centuries and a Half in Guilford, Connecticut" mentioned that, "Between 1727 and 1752 Mr. Sam . Hill represented Guilford in forty - three out of forty - nine sessions of the Legislature, and when he was gathered to his fathers, his son Nathaniel reigned in his stead" and a footnote queried whether this might be the source of the "popular Connecticut adjuration to' Give' em Sam Hill'?" </Li> </Ul> </Dd> </Dl>

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