The Holly chieftain., 1900-11-16
HENRY WILLARD
DIES In NEW YORK

DIES In NEW YORK
New York, Nov. 12.-Henry Willard.
the hnancier. died early this morning
at his summer home, Thorwood park,
near Dobbs ferry. The cause of tho
death was apopiexy, from which be
had been = sufferer for several weeks.
A week ago he contracted seyere
cold, which hastened the end. Mr.. VII
lard had been unconscious nearly all
the time since last Tuesday. When
death came there were gathered
around the bed Mr.. Wizards wife, who
was daughter Of Wiflian Lloyd Gar
rison, his sons, Oswald g. and Harold
G., with his wife; Mrs. William Lloyd
Garrison Of Boston, his sistef-in-law,
and Mr.. Wizards only daughter, Mrs.
James w. Bell Of Dresden, Germany.
In addition to the family, Mr.. Willard
leaves sister. Mrs. Emma Won Xylan-
der, wife Of General Robert Won Ky.
lander Of the Bavarian army. Mr.. VII
lard had resided in Dobbs ferry during
the summer months for the past eigh-
teen years.
It has been arranged that the funeral
, will take place from the residence We'd
nesday afternoon. The services Will
be conducted by Rev. Theodore @. VIII
liams Of Tarrytown. The interment
!, will be in the family plot In Sleepy
Hollow cemetery, where repose the re
who died when Ave years old, and who
drove the golden spike completing the
Northern Pacific railroad, of which ms
| father was president.
Henry Willard was born Heinrich
Hilgard, In Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria,
| April ii, 1886. His great uncle, Theo-
dor Gather of Julius Hilgard, who be.
came superintendent of the United
States coast survey led migration Of
the family connection to Belleville, I'LL
nois in 1886 His father. Gustav, was
| in the judicial service of the Bavarian
government and ended judge OF the
Supreme Court at Munich.
His fathers opposition to his coming
| to America made him borrow the sur
name of a French schoolmate 1t Phals.
bourg, and he became Henry Willard.
From 1853 to 1895, he worked as q
newspaper reporter The papers he
| served in this period were the Cincin
natl Commercial, the New York Her
| aid. the Chicago Tribune, and part oi
the time he was at the head Of news
bureaus at Washington.
Early in 1881 Mr.. Willard acquired
the New York Evening Post and the
! Nation.
In January, 1866, in Boston, he mar
ried Fannie, the only daughter of VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison. In 1868 he wal
chosen president of the newly formed
American Social Science Association
and did not finally reiinquish his pos
until 1871. -.
1t was in the latter year that Will.
on a visit to Europe Mr.. Willard begaI
his railroad career. He formed a con
nection with Frankfort and Berlii
bankers. and in 1873 returned to tn
United States, buying for the German
bondho1ders the property OF the Oregon
& California Railroad Company ant
the Oregon Steamship Company, beinl
made president in 1876. He acted Al
one of the receivers Of the Kansas Pa
cific Railroad Company and late
bought up the bonds of that road. n,
became Interested In the Oregon Steam
Navigation Company, of which he be
came president.
He then formed the Oregon & Trans
continental Company, with which HI
merged the two other companies int,
a so-called blind pool with the North
ern Pacific, being chosen president O.
the latter company.
A few years later the companies IL
which he was interested became so in
volved that there was collapse, IL
which Mr.. Willard suffered very heav
lily. Returning to Germany he formei
new financial relations which enabled
him to repair his fortunes, and coming
back to this country he started in once
more as capitalist.
In 1890 he purchased from Thoma.
B. Edison his electrical manufacturing
interests, and with the Edison LAM
Company of Newark, New Jersey, and
the Edison Works at Schenectady, New
York, as basis, organized the Etlisor
General Electric Company. Of which
he became president, serving In tha
capacity for about two years.
In October. 1889, he became chair
man Of the Northern Pacific board ol
directors, but the panic of 1893 agai1
occasioned the loss of most Of his for
tune and led to his withdrawal from
railroad management.