Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-11-16
Two Notable Deaths.

The almost simultaneous death OF
two mon, prominent in the worlds
business actualitc>, affords proof OF
the uncertainty OF life and the cmpti-
moss al earthly achievement 10 the
thron- still engaged in chasing the IL
descent butterflies for rcnown in the
business and political field of en-
GcaVur.
Henry Willard. AT one time famous
a. great railroad tinaucicr, died at
his summer home, on the morning OF
the 18th inst, near Dobb's Ferry, y.
y, from apoplexy, with which he had
been afflicted for several weeks past.
lie subsequently contracted a severe
cold, which prccipitated the dire re-
suit.
Henry Willard, Cor Henreich Hill
gard. lIi> true nance was born April
IL, 1880, in Speyer, Rheinish Bavaria.
When he broke off his University
studies and set out for this country.
he assumed the name of n college
scholmate at Phalisburg, i'll conse-
quencc of his fathers opposition to
his emigration to the United States.
On arriving here he served for n
time as newspaper reporter in Indiana
and Illinois. In 1871, he began his
railroad career which made him world
wide fame. He formed a connection
with Frankfort and Berlin brokers,
and in 1873 returned to the United
States, buying for the German bond
holders the property OF the Oregon 4
California Railroad Company and the
Oregon Steamship Company, being
made president in 1875. He acted as
one of the receivers of the Kansas Pa.
cific Railroad Company and later
bought up the bonds of the road. He
became interested in the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company and the
Oregon Railway e. Navigation Com
pany, of which he became president
and then formed the Oregon & Trans
continental with which he merged the
two other companies to a so-called
blind pool with the Northern Pacific,
being chosen president of the latter
company.
A few years later the companies in
which he was interested became so in.
volved that there was collapse in
which Mr.. Willard suffered very heav-
lily. Returning to Germany he formed
new financial relations which enabled
him to repair his fortune, and coming
back to this country, he started once
more as a capitalist. In 1890 he pur-
chased from Thomas A. Edison his
electrical manufacturing interests and
with the Edison Lamp Company of
Newark, N. j., and the Edison Works
at Schenectady, N. Y, as basis, or
ganized the Edison General Electric
Company, of which he became presi-
dent, 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 fortune and led to his
withdrawal from railroad manage
ment.
Mr.. Wizards wife, who survives him,
was daughter of William L. Garri-
son.
Marcus DAILY died at the Hotel
Netherlands, New York, on the morn.
ing of the 18th, about the same hour
of the death of Mr.. Willard. Dilation
of the heart and Bright's disease were
the cause, the complication Of all
ments dating back several years. Mr..
Daily was leading mine-owner, and
held his millions in copper, which is
about as durable basis for wealth as
the Republican standard for measur-
ing all property values-the miser's
gold. 1t was in his smelters, where he
frequently breathed the fumes of ar
senic, and the high attitudes at which
he spent much of his time, in man
agement OF his Montana mining prop
erty, which probably weakened his
heart and broke down a vigorous con-
stitution. When he paused long
enough to subject himself to a dag
nosis of his condition, he was too far
gone for recovery. He, however, made
a trip to Europe, in the hope that a
change of scene and climate might |
afford relief. He returned about the
middle of September, and had ever
since gradually become weaker until |
death ensued.
Mr.. Days fight with his brother
millionaire mine.owner, w. A. Clark,
for political supremacy in Montana,
has made him a prominent figure the
past year, in partisan sense.
THE SHOW CANE OFF AS AN.
NOUNCED.-Profs. PAYNE and Wilson,