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SIR WILLIAM CORNELIUS VAN HORNE (1843- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 894 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR WILLIAM CORNELIUS
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VAN HORNE (1843- )
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Canadian financier, was born in Will county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., on the 3rd of
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February 1843, of Dutch descent . He was educated in the
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common
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schools of the state, and in 1857 began
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work as office boy in a railway station . His ability and force brought him to the front, and he rose till in ,881 he was appointed general manager of the Canadian Pacific railway . For the successful completion of this
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great road his strong will and
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mental grasp were largely responsible, and he it was who not only controlled but steadily extended its operations during the lean years which followed . In 1884 he became
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vice-president of the
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line, in 1888 president, and in 1899 chairman of the board of
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directors . From 1885 onward he was more and more associated with every branch of Canadian mercantile and
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financial
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life, and as a publicist gave shrewd expression to his views on
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political and economic questions . After the
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Spanish-
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American War (1898) he became one of the chief promoters of railway and
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industrial enterprise in Cuba . In May 1894 he was knighted by Queen Victoria in acknowledgment of his distinguished public services . He was also known as a
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patron of
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art and literature and an amateur painter of no little merit .

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