The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-16
HENRY WILLARD
DIES In NEW YORK

death was apopleXy. from which he
had been Il sufferer for several weeks.
\ week ago he contracted Il severe
cold. which fastened the end Mr. Vii
lard had been unconscious nearly all
the time since last Tuesday When
death came there We're gathered
around the bed Mr.. Wizards wife. who
was Il daughter Of William Lloyd Gar
rson, his sons. Oswald G. and Harold
g.. with his wife; Mrs. William Lloyd
Garrison of Boston. his sister-inlaw.
and Mr.. Wizards only daughter. Mrs.
James w. Bell Of Dresden. Germany.
In addition to the family. Mr. Willard
leaves n sister, Mrs. Emma Won Nylan-
der, wife of General Robert Won Ny
lander of the Bavarian army. Mr.. Vii
lard had resided in DObbs ferry during
the summer months for the past eigh
teen years.
1t has been arranged that the funeral
will take place from the residence We'd
nesday afternoon. The services will
be conducted by Rev. Theodore c. Will
liams of Tarrytown. The intcrment
will be in the family plot in Sleepy
Hollow cemetery, where repose the re-
mains of his youngest son. llilgard.
who died when five years old. and who
drove the golden spike completing the
Northern Pacific railroad. of which his
father was president.
Henry Willard was born Heinrich
Hilgard. in Speyer. Rhenish Bavaria.
April II. 1885. His great uncle. TheO-
dor Gather of Julius Hilgard. who be-
came superintendent of the United
States coast survey led a migration of
the family connection to Belleville. Illi-
nois in 1885 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 Il French schoolmate at PhalS-
bourg, and he became Henry Willard.
From 1858 to 1868 he worked as a
newspaper reporter. The papers he
served in this period We're the Cincin-
natl Commercial. the New York Her
aid. the Chicago Tribune. and part of
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
ricd Fannie. the only daughter of Will
liam Lloyd Garrison. In 1868 he was
chosen president of the newly formed
American Social Science Association,
having its headquarters in that city.
and did not finally relinquish his post
until 1871.
1t was in the latter year that while
on visit to Europe Mr.. Willard began
his railroad career He formed con-
nection with Frankfort and Berlin
bankers. and in 1873 returned to the
United States. buying for the German
hondholders the property of the Oregon
n California Railroad Company and
the Oregon Steamship Company. being
made president in 1873. He acted as
one of the receivers of the Kansas Pa
citic Railroad Company and later
bought up the bonds of that road. He
became interested in the Oregon Steam
Navigation Company. of which he be-
came president.
He then formed the Oregon 4 Trans
continental Company. with which he
merged the two other companies into
ii so-called blind pool with the North
ern Pacific. being chosen president of
the latter company.
\ few years later the companies in
which he was interested became so in
volved that there was a collapse. in
which Mr.. Willard suffered very heav
lily. Returning to Germany he formed
new financial relations which enabled
him to repair his fortunes. and coming
back to this country he started in once
more rs n capitalist
In 1880 he purchased from Thomas
b. Edison his electrical manufacturing