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VILLARD . See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1835–1900), See also:American journalist and financier, was See also:born in Speyer, Rhenish See also:Bavaria, on the loth of See also:April 1835. His baptismal name was See also:Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard. His parents removed to See also:Zweibrucken in 1839, and in 1856 his See also:father, Gustav Leonhard Hilgard (d.1867), became a See also:justice of the Supreme See also:Court of Bavaria, at See also:Munich. Henry was educated at the gymnasium of Zweibriicken, at the See also:French semi-military See also:academy in Phalsbourg in 1849–5o, at the gymnasium of Speyer in 1850-52, and at the See also:universities of Munich and Wiirzburg in 1852–53; and in 1853, having had a disagreement with his father, emigrated—without his parents' knowledge—to the See also:United States. It was at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that he adopted the name Villard. Making his way 1kestward in 1854, he lived in turn at See also:Cincinnati, See also:Belleville (See also:Illinois), See also:Peoria (Illinois) and See also:Chicago, engaged in various employments, and in 1856 formed a project, which came to nothing, for establishing a See also:colony of " See also:free See also:soil " Germans in See also:Kansas. In 1856–57 he was editor, and for See also:part of the time was proprietor, of the See also:Racine (Wis.) Volksblatt, in which he advocated the See also:election of See also:John C. See also:Fremont (Republican). Thereafter he was associated (in 1857) with the Staats-Zeitung, See also:Frank See also:Leslie's and the See also:Tribune, of New See also:York, and with the Cincinnati Commercial
in 1859-6o; was correspondent of the New York See also:Herald in 1861 and of the New York Tribune (with the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac) in 1862-63, and in 1864 was at the front as the representative of a See also:news agency established by him in that See also:year at See also:Washington. In 1865 he became Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, and in 1866 was the correspondent of that See also:paper in the Prusso-See also:Austrian See also:War. He began to take an See also:interest in railway financiering in 1871, was elected See also:president of the See also:Oregon & See also:California railroad and of the Oregon Steamship See also:Company in 1876, was See also:receiver of the Kansas Pacific railway in 1876-78, organized the Oregon Railway & See also:Navigation Company in 1879, the Oregon Improyemert Company in 188o, and the Oregon & Transcontinental Company in 1881, becoming in that year president of the See also:Northern Pacific See also:rail-way, which was completed under his management, and of which he remained president until 1883. In 1887 he again became connected with the Northern Pacific, and in 1889 was chosen chairman of its See also:finance See also:committee. He was actively identified with the financing of other Western railway projects' until 1893. In 1881 he acquired the New York Evening See also:Post and the Nation. In 1883 he paid the See also:debt of the See also:state university of Oregon, and gave to the institution $5o,000, and he also gave to the See also:town of Zweibriicken, the See also:home of his boyhood, an See also:orphan See also:asylum (1891). He died on the 12th of See also:November 1900.
See See also:Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, i835-xpoo (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1904).
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