VILLARD
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See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1835–1900), See also:American journalist and financier, was See also:born in Speyer, Rhenish See also:Bavaria, on the loth of See also:April 1835
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His baptismal name was See also:Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard
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His parents removed to See also:Zweibrucken in 1839, and in 1856 his See also:father, Gustav Leonhard Hilgard (d.1867), became a See also:justice of the Supreme See also:Court of Bavaria, at See also:Munich
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Henry was educated at the gymnasium of Zweibriicken, at the See also:French semi-military See also:academy in Phalsbourg in 1849–5o, at the gymnasium of Speyer in 1850-52, and at the See also:universities of Munich and Wiirzburg in 1852–53; and in 1853, having had a disagreement with his father, emigrated—without his parents' knowledge—to the See also:United States
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It was at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that he adopted the name Villard
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Making his way 1kestward in 1854, he lived in turn at See also:Cincinnati, See also:Belleville (See also:Illinois), See also:Peoria (Illinois) and See also:Chicago, engaged in various employments, and in 1856 formed a project, which came to nothing, for establishing a See also:colony of " See also:free See also:soil " Germans in See also:Kansas
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In 1856–57 he was editor, and for See also:part of the time was proprietor, of the See also:Racine (Wis.) Volksblatt, in which he advocated the See also:election of See also:John C
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See also:Fremont (Republican)
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Thereafter he was associated (in 1857) with the Staats-Zeitung, See also:Frank See also:Leslie's and the See also:Tribune, of New See also:York, and with the Cincinnati Commercial
in 1859-6o; was correspondent of the New York See also:Herald in 1861 and of the New York Tribune (with the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac) in 1862-63, and in 1864 was at the front as the representative of a See also:news agency established by him in that See also:year at See also:Washington
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In 1865 he became Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, and in 1866 was the correspondent of that See also:paper in the Prusso-See also:Austrian See also:War
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He began to take an See also:interest in railway financiering in 1871, was elected See also:president of the See also:Oregon & See also:California railroad and of the Oregon Steamship See also:Company in 1876, was See also:receiver of the Kansas Pacific railway in 1876-78, organized the Oregon Railway & See also:Navigation Company in 1879, the Oregon Improyemert Company in 188o, and the Oregon & Transcontinental Company in 1881, becoming in that year president of the See also:Northern Pacific See also:rail-way, which was completed under his management, and of which he remained president until 1883
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In 1887 he again became connected with the Northern Pacific, and in 1889 was chosen chairman of its See also:finance See also:committee
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He was actively identified with the financing of other Western railway projects' until 1893
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In 1881 he acquired the New York Evening See also:Post and the Nation
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In 1883 he paid the See also:debt of the See also:state university of Oregon, and gave to the institution $5o,000, and he also gave to the See also:town of Zweibriicken, the See also:home of his boyhood, an See also:orphan See also:asylum (1891)
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He died on the 12th of See also:November 1900
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See See also:Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, i835-xpoo (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1904)
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