Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-13
HENRY WILLARD DEAD.
a NEWSPAPER MAN AND WELL
KNOWN FINANCIER.
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New York. Nov. l2.-Henry Willard.
the nnancier. died early this morning
at his summer home. Thorwood Park.
near Dobbs Ferry. The cause OF death
was apopleXy. from which he had been
Il sufferer for several weeks \ week
ago he contracted a severe cold, which
FASTENED his end. MIR. Willard 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 William Lloyd Garrison, and his
three children.
1t has been arranged that the fune-
raj will take place from the residence
on "Wednesday afternoon at 315 p. m.
when the services will be conducted by
the Rev. Theodore c. Williams of Tar
rytown. The interment will he in the
family plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
where rcpesc- the remains OF ms young
est son, Hilgard. who died when five
years old and who drove the golden
spike completing the Northern Pacific
railroad, OF which his father was pres
idcnt.
Henry Willard was born of Heinrich
HilGard, In Speyer Rhenish Bavaria,
on April II. 1885. Young Iilgard was
S'iutsilSt at SCHOOLS III /.MtlDTuckcT,
Phalsbours. and Speyer. but in Oc-
tober. 1853. broke OFF his University
| studies and set out for the United
States. His fathers opposition to this
step made him borrow the surname
of a French school mate al Phalsbourg,
and he became Henry Willard
Arriving in this country, he became
newspaper reporter. and continued
in the profession until 1865.
Early in 1881 Mr.. Willard acquired
| the New York Evening Post and the
! Nation.
in January. 1868. in Boston, he mar
ricd Fanny. the only daughter OF VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison.
In 1871 while on q visit to Europe
Mr.. Willard began his railroad career.
| He formed Il connection With Frankfort
and Berlin bankers, and in 1873 return
ed TO the United States. buying for the
| German bondholders the property OF
! the Oregon and California Railroad
Company and the Oregon Steamship
/ Company. being made president in 1875.
/ He became interested In the Oregon
| Steam Navigation Company and the
/ Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
Ipany. of which he became president.
and then formed the oregon and Trans
continental with which he merged the
two other companies into a so-called
blind pool with the Northern Pacific,
beinS CHoStN lttSlHGAl ot lNc idlle!
company.
a few years later the companies in
which he was Interested became so in
VOWED that there was a collapse in
which Mir. Willard suffered very heav-
lily Returning TO Germany he formed
| new financial relations which enabled
him 10 repair his fortune. and coming
back to this country he started in once
more as n capitalist. In 1890 he pur-
chased from Thomas Edison his clectri-
cal manufacturing interests, and with
the Edison Lamp Companv of New
ark. n. j.. and the Edison Works nj
Schenectady, n. y, as basis. organ
lied the Edison General Electric Com
pany, of which he became president
Serving in that capacity for about two
years In October. 1889. he became
chairman of the Northern Pacific Board
of Directors, but the panic OF 1898 again
occasioned the loss OF most of his for
tune and led TO his withdrawal from
railroad nanagement,