Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1900-11-17
HENRY Willard IS DEAD.
The Well Known Railroad Magnate
and Financier Has Passed
Away.
HIS REAL NAME WAS HEINRICH HILGARO.
He Changed II, However, to Fnciii-
tate His Departure From Europe
for the United states, where He
Began His Career ns Newspaper
Reporter at BeIIeyille, Ill.

New York, Nov. 13.--Henry Willard,
the railroad magnate and financier,
died at his summer residence at
Dobbs Ferry
Mr.. Willard had intended to return
to New York about the middle OF
last month, but his condition was then
so precarious that his physicians adj
yised him to remain at his country
home until he should have gained
more strength. A week ago he
caught heavy cold, and since then
his condition had been. gradually
growing worse. Two physicians had
been with him constantly for a week
past.
Henry Wizards Career.
Henry Willard was born Heinrich Hi.
gard In SpeyCr, Rhensh Bavaria, on
April II, 1885. His Creat-uncle Theodor
father of Julius Hilgard, who became
superintendent Of the United States coast
survey led a migration Of the family con
nection to Belleville, Ill, in lG5J. Ills fa-
ther. Gustav, was in the judicial service
of the BaVarian government, and endec
judge Of The supreme court at Munich
Young Hilgard was educated at schools
but IN October, 1853, broke off his uni
yersity studies, and set out for the Unl.eo
States intending to Join the colony OF ms
relatives at Belleyille His fathers oppo
sition TO this step made him borrow the
surname Of a French schoomate at Phals'
burg, and ne became Henry Willard.
Arriving at Bellevlle, he became news
paper reporter, and continued in the pro
fession until 1865 During these years he
served as legislative correspondent In
Indiana and Illinois, a political reporter
reporting the Lincoln-D0uglas debates
the Chicago convention, which nominated
Lincoln; the Lincoln campaign, and later.
as war correspondent. The papers he
served in this period were the Cincinnati
Commercial the New York Herald, the
Chicago Tribune and the New York TrlD-
une, 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, be married
Fannie, the only daughter Of VIM. Lloyd
Garrison. In 1865 he was chosen secretary
Of the newly-founded American Socia
Sceince association, having its headquar'
ters in that city. and did not finally relin'
quish the post until 1871,
1t was in the latter year that, while
on visit to Europe, Mr.. Willard began
his railroad career. He formed a connec.
tiun with Frankfort and Berlin bankers
and, in 1873, returned to the United States
haying for the German bondholders the
property of the Oregon e. California Rail-
road Co. and the oregon Steamship Co.
being made president in 1870. He acted as
one of the receivers Of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad Co. and later bought up the
bonds Of the road. He became interested
in the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. and
the oregon Railway and Navigation Co,
of which he became president, and then
formed the oregon K TrauscOntinetal.
with which he merged the two other com
panes to a so-called blind pool with the
Northern Pacific. being chosen president