Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-12-07
ROMANTIC CAREER OF A MILLION
ARE NEW YORKER.
How He Achieved Fame and Fortune
How He Won n Beautiful Boston
BeIle-The Memory of His First
Sweetheart
New York Morning Journal

sweetheart
New York Morning Journal
On bright, frosty morning late in
the fall of 1858 stout German youth
hastily made his exit from the little
university of Munich, Bavaria. He
wore the conventional tight-titting
suit of the German student A cloth
carpet-bag contained his wealth with
the exception of a few iorins IN his
pocket and a stout walking-stic IN
his hand. Heinrich Hilgard was
bright youth, an apt scholar, had
passed through the elementary school
of Zweibrucken, the town of his ma
tiyity, and the several classes of Latin
school and finally had spent year at
a French school at Pfaizbourg in Lor-
raine. He terminated his pursuit of
knowledge by taking French leave"
of the University at Munich School
life had grown monotonous. He had
entered upon it at SIX years of age
and twelve years later had concluded
to seek his fortune. The youth
tramped to the home of his father,
who then occupied a judicial bench in
the town of Zweibrucken. With a
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ed to the anticipated censure and then
coolly propose! that his father should
settle uson him small fortune with
which he desire to speculate in Ameri
! can cities. The result of this interview
was that a few days later Heinrich
| Hilgard left the parental roof with
sufficient funds TO carry him across
/ the ocean to settlement in remote
corner in Illinois where an uncle had
I proceeded him a year before and was
engaged in farming
Heinrich, it is SAID, had left benipd
/ a beautiful French maiden, whose ac-
quaintance he had made while attend
ing college at Lorraine, and his step
on entering upon the world had been
! induced by an ambition to become
worthy of her hand.
bright and, though quite young,
thoroughly understood the causes
which led to the breach between the
north and south. Mr. Willard passed
many hours in conversation with the
enthusiastic maiden, before he again
started for the front. Her vivacious
manner and winning ways had driven
from his memory the early resolutions
made before he sought his fortune on
this side of the Atlantic, and the mod
est desire for a little cote in sunny
France with the dark eyed girl who
had first inspired him with the tender
sentiments of love, as his wife. Never
in all his travels in Europe or in any
portion of the west and south-for by
this time Willard had seen much of
the world--had he come in contact
with soul which had so thoroughly
charmed him He returned to the
south fully determined to keep her
foremost in his memory When, later
on, malarial fever contracted IN the
southern swamps, forced him again to
return north, he was assisted back to
health by the tender sympathies and
cheering smiles of the beautiful BoS-
ton girl. Then he declared his love
both to the daughter and parents, and
a little later he led her to the altar
Since his marriage, Mr.. Wizards life
has been one of unusual success To-
day the once poor but ambitious emf
grant youth may be found surrounded
by a lovely family CT children in a
grand old mansion bordered by parks
and lawns on the banks overlooking
the Hudson, near the city. The beau
tiful young eastern girl is just as
! charming as ever, while her life is
devoted to the care and education of
the lovely daughters and noble sons
growing up around her.