The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-13
HENRY WILLARD Is DEAD.
NOTED YINiECIER AND RAILROAD
uAS sUCCUMBS TO APOPLE1i.
Could Not SPEAK English when Ne Csme 10
This Country. but soon Mastered II ana re
came a Famous War rrespondent-ii
Bn liant Career in the Financial world

Could Not speak English when he Csme 10
This County. but Soon mastered !. an" ~
came q Famous War Correspondent-h.
Bn liant Career In the ttnsno'A' "o'"'
Henry wizard. the railroad magnate ana
fnancier, ed at his summer residence mar
wood Park, near Dobbs Ferry. shorty H'ei
n,dnivh, Yesterday. MIR. willard has not been
ln good health all summer and last month
when he wanted ~ return to this CITY bis physi-
clan sbsohutAly forbade 10 until he became
stronger For sms time Nj. Wizard had
sursred fYom cancer Of thu throat. A week
40 bs got q severe cold and took TO bis bed
Lat Tussday bS had . stroke Of apopsry and
never rSeainsd oonsdousne1 All OF the
member Of bis family were With hin when
hs died. His wife, Mn. Fanny Garrison Wizard,
daughter Of william Lloyd Oesyson. uS abo-
lluoniss was With him al through biz last
ulneas, and whom he died hi Sons, Oswald
Carbon and Harold 0arrteon Wizard. tho
lattsr's wife and Mn wLniam Lloyd Garrison
Of Bosom and bis daughter. Mn smA W.
Bell. Of Dresden. we're q hk bsdad~ Ths
only near relative who was MOI presene VA
Mr.. WIZARDS sister. Mr.. Emma Won 1yhndsr.
wife OF IN ofiosr In Chs Bsv.Ftan army. II
was impossible 20 inform her Of Ne fatal turn
In Mr.. vlllard's Zines n time to- hsF 70 rsSoh
this country before hh death There wiz be
funeral ~ssrvtoes at HArwood Park al O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon. They va be condnoosd
BY the Rev. Theodore c. Williams Of TsSTytown.
and the lnterment will be In The family plot
in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Henry Wizards career ~ . rsf1rosd man
and a fnancier was marked by the blind con-
fdence which those who were Interested with
him In the great properties he built up and
controlled had In hts direction Of their Inter
ests. In the life OF no one OF the great Imam
- -. l,y. xt.~n a. tla country dayplDINl.
IA there M incident TO equal Tat ono when he
asked his friends to subscribe $4,000 for
the CARRYING out OF a project which his OWL
brain had conceived, and which. at that time
he had made known to no one. 1t was the Dig
gest blind pool" that rnan OF wealth had ever
been asked to put their money In. and the
amazing part Of Il was that had the amount
asked for been twtoe a. great, II would have
been Just az SUCCESSFUL. Iwenty-four
hours after Mr.. Willard asked for the money
Il had been subscribed twice ovU. II wn an
O. exhibition Of confidence unparalleled at that
time and nothing 70 equal II has occurred IN the
world OF finance since. With this vast amount
OF money pledged to him Mr.. Willard let out 70
the subscribers just an mixing OF the scheme
his busy brain had devised, which was the ac-
curing Of controlling interest, In the Northern
Pacific Railroad and the oregon Railway and
Navigation Company. and the constructing OF
system az branch lines. subsidiary to the main
trunk lines. He followed this disclosure with
q second request for & subscription OF 81. ooo.ocO.
which was paid In At once. and Mr.. Willard began
the work. which was 40 successful up TO 1883.
when the general depression and the constant
attacks on his securities had their effect and lie
retired an almost ruined man.
The story OF Henry Wizards life Is the story
Of a poor Bsvaisn boy. who cams to this
49, -
managed In a few years TO master It sufficiently
to write well In It and TO bring himse!! 20 the
attention Of men whose friendship aided him
greatly in his struggle for fame and fortune.
Once he embarked on the sea Of finance hs
career was meteoric. and although his two
failures, both while at the head OF the Great
Northern Pacific system. reduced the mighty
fortunes ne had accumulated to almost moth
Ing. he had tho pluck 70 start over again. so
that he died n very wealthy man.
Henry Wizards life before his general recog.
milton as a fnancier Of great ability was IN
terestlnx. but has been lost sight Of in his
projects Of great maSRisude In tbs first
iIsEs his pnTe vas NO, Willard HE va, born
gard. . land owner. Who died in 1929 For
One Of these in 1892 wrote a Defence OF the
H aa,SiS. JACOB H Il iso,ffeltsd" his Place
a, Pacharach in Gon,eanenss 4 hfs sympalhyy
jacobs son Fritz lost hi, orte Of
9beT barseEmei'te, q speyer thToash r.Qyal
uncle Theodar In the migration To Belleyille,
III in 1873, The eldest son, Gu.tev. rsmained
Government He finally became judge Of
Heinrich. was the Henry Wizard who in later
Sriff iin Ma n Ia T %arid IN { Z @SI Hsia m Sne Iff iis@rd
was attending the gymnasium AZ Hveihrnchen
caused hi father to send HIN to school at
Phalsbourg, Lorraine. Later he returned To-
S SgSHsr on FT65E Ii. aniver rasy' studies enis 's ana T desisr Id
hi. intention Of going to tho United states t"
,oin lie f,mIn e2ol p. a, Belc,tlIC. 10 was
step was. Arm / was With The dete-mlnltion |
NOT q bring iscrcdit on NJ. own name. in case
=. t (, ara z The he, as ,,,, %oT y shH sr. sG sb",r2%od
mate a, ph %dsoou-S and bscame hsnry Willard
Win httie but NJ lndomitahle courage he
Belleytlle. II took lin a year 10 get there. and
4 was a year MI q the most trying experiences
lions In German To a local new s;ppcr Then
lie began reading law lie moyen TO Peoria
IA German for a number ~ newspai ers ~,
knowledge Of tnslish incre9scd 80 raiidly mat
III i'b" Nv wa ''l'iliih u nv lllA'lI- I
Douglas Gcbatr,. last same year lie moved
10 Indianapolis where he worked as Il Iegi,lai W.
reporter In 1851 the Cincinnati Conmer,Gi
sent him To Colorado to write up the newly
discovered Pixies Peak goloaelds. He VII
iIod them with Horace Greeley and Albert u
Richardson and his letters from Their. vera
considered intere ting enough 10 publish Ia
book form later IN
The year after that Nj Willard attended
a. n REPORTER the Chicago convention which
nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presi-
dency. A. "A reporter for tie Nsu York H.y1d
md other new spapers he made a tour of tio
Wet during tho calnralgn. and in 1891 came
East from 3 ripcfold. III. with Mr.. Lincoln. /
u" went TO Washington. where ~ cst1bl-h he'd
himself as 4 correspondent for n number ~
Ia tern and Western newst epsrs. lie had
built NJ valuable acqlaintance and counted
among his friends almost NJ of the Iuhiic mon I
~ the time. When he took TIE field a. a COL I
respondent n the hcSinuiuc q tho Ctyil War (
h. was welcomed at All hoaiouartcr. III.
Witnessed ~" fret defeat of the I nion forces
az Rlll Run. reported BucllS Western cum
Iaign., and Ivy Q Seri's of good fortunes man
aged Ia get to WASHINGTON the 0rst authentic |
news ~ Rurnside's gi-aatNr at fr-derick,-
burg II" war the only correol ondcnt IN Du-
points a'trck ON Charleston Nv Arril, l>es.
being On ncrad y. flagship NcN Tronsiie,.
,1UtAiu. Nf'or"Hrd R"Hr admiral, G Il f.
Rogers, VINO commanded the View IrouSilss- !