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	Henry Villard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Villard (April 10, 1835 – November 12, 1900), was an American journalist and financier of German origin.
		Henry Villard was educated at a Gymnasium (equivalent of "high school") of Zweibrücken, at the French semi-military academy in Phalsbourg in 1849-50, at the Gymnasium of Speyer in 1850-52, and at the universities of Munich and Würzburg in 1852-53.
		On his passing in 1900, Henry Villard was interred in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Villard (501 words)

	Henry Villard
		Henry Villard (April 10, 1835 - 1900), American journalist and financier, was born in Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria.
		His parents removed to Zweibrücken[?] in 1839, and in 1856 his father, Gustav Leonhard Hilgard (d.i867), became a justice of the Supreme Court of Bavaria, at Munich.
		Henry was educated at the gymnasium of Zweibrücken, at the French semi-military academy in Phalsbourg in 1849-50, at the gymnasium of Speyer in 1850-52, and at the universities of Munich[?] and Würzburg[?] in 1852-53; and in 1853, having had a disagreement with his father, emigrated--without his parents' knowledge--to the United States.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Henry_Villard.html (217 words)

	When Alexandra Villard Borchgrave, wife of ultra right journalist Arnaud, sat down to write "Villard: the Life and ...
		When Alexandra Villard Borchgrave, wife of ultra right journalist Arnaud, sat down to write "Villard: the Life and Times of an American Titan", a fawning biography of her great-grandfather Henry Villard, the last thing she probably had in mind was debunking Radical Republicanism or the "revolutionary" character of the Civil War northern industrial bourgeoisie.
		As president of Northern Pacific in 1883, Villard symbolized the entrepreneurial spirit of the Yankee industrialist that was understood by both bourgeois and orthodox Marxist historians alike as the polar opposite of the vanquished planter class.
		Despite the leftwing credentials of Villard and Marx, the newspaper was a racist opponent of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/origins/villard.htm (1260 words)

	Oregon Blue Book: Notables- Henry Villard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Henry Villard was born on April 10, 1835 in Speyer, Bavaria and immigrated to the United States in 1853.
		In 1866 Villard married Fanny Garrison, daughter of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
		Villard's eastern "immigration bureau" drew 30,000 settlers to Oregon in an effort that also benefited the railroad financially.
	bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notvillard.htm (289 words)

	Henry Villard - LoveToKnow 1911
		HENRY VILLARD (1835-1900), American journalist and financier, was born in Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria, on the loth of April 1835.
		His parents removed to Zweibriicken in 1839, and in 1856 his father, Gustav Leonhard Hilgard (d.1867), became a justice of the Supreme Court of Bavaria, at Munich.
		Henry was educated at the gymnasium of Zweibriicken, at the French semi-military academy in Phalsbourg in 1849-50, at the gymnasium of Speyer in 1850-52, and at the 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 United States.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Henry_Villard (447 words)

	Oregon History ProjectOregon Biographies Henry Villard
		Villard was born Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hillgard in 1835 in Bavaria.
		Villard, with the help of Portland and New York bankers, was able to buy the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company because it continued to do poorly after Holladay defaulted on his loans.
		Villard was voted out of the presidency of all his companies in early January 1884 and returned to Germany, where he spent three years recouping his fortune.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Henry-Villard.cfm (378 words)

	principals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Henry Failing was born on January 17, 1834 in New York City and arrived in Portland on June 9, 1851 aboard the Steamer Columbia, one of the fleet of the Pacific Steamship Company.
		Henry Villard and the Northern Pacific Railroad Henry Villard was born in Barvaria in 1836 and came to prominence in the United States as the New York Tribune's Washington correspondent during the civil war.
		Villard's strategy included utilizing the established route of Reed's OSN along the southern bank of the Columbia River to the confluence of the Columbia and Snake River at Wallua Junction.
	home.europa.com /~heritage/principals.html (5277 words)

	Oswald Garrison Villard / Biography
		Under Villard The Nation was staunch in its attack on the extension of the Monroe Doctrine to justify U.S. imperialism in Latin America, opposed the "theft" of the Panama Canal and the plan to annex Hawaii, and supported independence for the Philippines and self-determination for the Irish.
		When Villard declined to endorse the single-tax -- a formula aimed at eliminating land speculation and promoting economic equality -- as the solution to the country's economic woes, Neilson withdrew his support and founded a new magazine, The Freeman, with Nock as its editor.
		Villard, who retained ownership, came within an ace of selling The Nation -- with no warning to the board -- to Raymond Moley who was looking for a political organ.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /villard_bio.html (2214 words)

	Educate Yourself - Homestead Strike
		Villard was financially ruined, however, and suffering from a nervous breakdown, he went back to Germany to recover.
		Villard had been an early supporter of Edison's and the financiers of the day saw that money was to be made not in making Edison's light bulbs (October 1879) but rather through controlling the production of electricity.
		Villard and Morgan formed a partnership whereby they bought out Edison and Edison Electric (Thomas Edison was well taken care of) and Villard became the president of the new operation, Edison General Electric.
	www.buyandhold.com /bh/en/education/history/2001/villard.html (1040 words)

	Newsman Villard eyewitness to history - The Washington Times: Civil War - April 16, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Henry Villard was born Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard on April 10, 1835, in Speyer, Germany.
		Villard made a name for himself by carefully crafting reports from the front lines into readable, in fact memorable, essays on the personalities and events of the war.
		Villard met with and studied Johnson, concluding that he "had too violent a temper and was too much addicted to the common Southern habit of free indulgence in strong drink."
	www.washtimes.com /civilwar/20050415-084702-1945r.htm (1926 words)

	Villard, Henry - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		VILLARD, HENRY [Villard, Henry], 1835-1900, American journalist and financier, b.
		With new capital Villard once more gained control of the Northern Pacific and in 1889 became chairman of the board of directors.
		Villard obtained (1881) control of the New York Evening Post, which later (1897) came under the management of his son, Oswald Garrison Villard.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/VillardH.asp (354 words)

	Henry Villard
		VILLARD, Henry, financier, born in Spire, Bavaria, 11 April, 1835.
		He was appointed in 1876 a receiver of the Kansas Pacific railroad as the representative of European creditors, and was removed in 1878, but continued the contest he had begun with Jay Gould and finally obtained better terms for the bond-holders than they had agreed to accept.
		He has given a large fund for the State university of Oregon, liberally aided the University of Washington territory, founded a hospital and school for nurses in his native town, and devoted large sums to the Industrial art school of Rhenish Bavaria, and to the foundation of fifteen scholarships for the youth of that province.
	www.famousamericans.net /henryvillard (563 words)

	Bookreporter.com - VILLARD by Alexandra Villard De Borchgrave and John Cullen
		This book, however, brings back to literary life Oswald's father Henry Villard, who arrived in New York from his native Germany in 1853 penniless and without a word of English and went on to become a famous (and immensely wealthy) journalist, newspaper owner and railroad magnate before his death in 1900.
		Henry Villard (born Heinrich Hilgard) came to America largely to escape an autocratic father and a highly regimented but personally galling upbringing in Germany.
		The war narrative (Villard was an eyewitness at First Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Shiloh, among other bloody battles) is colorfully written, horrifying in its grisly detail, and extensive.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0385486626.asp (644 words)

	Oswald Villard Jr. \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Villard, an electronics engineer, parlayed his youthful interest in radio into advanced research with military and other uses, including "stealth" technology to stop radar from bouncing back from aircraft, so planes are nearly invisible to it.
		Villard was a professor at Stanford University for five decades.
		In addition to his daughter, Dr. Villard is survived by two sons, Thomas of Menlo Park and John of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; and three grandchildren.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040223/news_1m23villard.html (592 words)

	Corruption in America's Gilded Age - HBS Working Knowledge
		Villard (1862-1928), a German born financier, was one of the leading entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age.
		Few in the 1870s would have failed to understand Henry Villard's refusal to resign as receiver of the Kansas Pacific, appointed by a court to run the bankrupt road, as long as his character was under attack.
		Henry Villard, receiver of the Kansas Pacific and eventual owner of the Northern Pacific, would join them on Nassau Street in 1876.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /archive/3614.html (2033 words)

	German American Corner: VILLARD, Henry (1835-1900)
		Villard also helped to finance the early ventures of the American inventor Thomas Edison, founded in 1889 the Edison General Electric Co. (later the General Electric Co.), and acquired a controlling interest in two New York newspapers, the Evening Post and the Nation(1881).
		His wife, Helen Frances Garrison Villard (1844-1928), daughter of the American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, aided the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and founded (1919) the Women's Peace Society, of which she was president until her death.
		Their son, Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949), was a distinguished editor and publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation (1897-1918), the editor and owner of the liberal weekly The Nation (1918-32), and an author, mainly of historical books.
	www.germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/villard.html (317 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Villard, Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Villard, Henry VILLARD, HENRY [Villard, Henry], 1835-1900, American journalist and financier, b.
		Villard, Oswald Garrison VILLARD, OSWALD GARRISON [Villard, Oswald Garrison] 1872-1949, American editor and author, b.
		The son of Henry Villard and the grandson, on his mother's side, of William Lloyd Garrison, he was a lifelong liberal and a pacifist.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/13486.html (351 words)

	Villard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Villard is the name of several places in the United States:
		Villard is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Villard (94 words)

	Villard Books
		Villard's Legacy: Studies in Medieval Technology, Science and Art in Memory of Jean Gimpel (Avista Studies in the History of Medieval Science, Technology and Art)
		Henry Villard and the railways of the Northwest
		Henry Villard: A study of transatlantic investments and interests, 1870-1895 (Dissertations in American economic history)
	www.naturalskincare.ws /all-about-Villard.php (857 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Northern Pacific Railroad's Orphan Road
		Henry Villard (1835-1900) had acquired the transcontinental railroad, and Seattle had hopes of becoming its terminus.
		In October 1880, Henry Villard (1835-1900), who controlled railroad and steamship companies along the Columbia River and the Willamette Valley that served Portland, Oregon, extended his empire to Puget Sound.
		As Villard stepped onto the city docks to be received by Seattle dignitaries, he was given a handful of urgent telegrams from the East.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=2286 (1671 words)

	STANFORD Magazine: May/June 2004 > Class Notes
		Jim Barnum, a scientist at SRI International who was one of Villard’s graduate advisees in the 1960s, remembers when Villard’s backyard was full of receivers and antennas.
		At his father’s urging, Mike Villard got a bachelor’s degree in literature at Yale, but thereafter pursued his interest in electricity, radio and radar.
		Villard is survived by one daughter, Suzanne; two sons, John and Thomas; and three grandchildren.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2004/mayjun/classnotes/villard.html (421 words)

	Oswald Garrison 'Mike' Villard Jr., father of 'over-the-horizon' radar, dies
		Villard was born Sept. 17, 1916, in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., to a distinguished family with a long tradition of activism.
		Villard received his doctorate from Stanford in 1949 and rose through the faculty ranks to full professor in 1955.
		Villard is survived by three children -- Thomas Houghton Villard of Atherton, Calif.; Barbara Suzanne Villard of Tucson, Ariz.; and John Sandford Villard of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/2004/villard128.html (1442 words)

	Biography and Film About Henry Villard Featured at the Library 9/24
		The career of journalist and industrialist Henry Villard, one of the most remarkable and important figures in post-Civil War America, will be discussed at the Library of Congress at 6 p.m., Monday, Sept. 24, in the Pickford Theater, third floor, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave.
		Henry Villard's career is extraordinary given his arrival in New York at age 18 with $20 in his pocket and no English-language skills.
		Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave is a distinguished photographer who lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, publisher Arnaud de Borchgrave.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2001/01-110.html (292 words)

	Washington Apple Country
		Villard first came to prominence in the United States as a journalist and editor.
		Villard devised an enterprising and pragmatic scheme to gain control of the transcontinental railroad.
		Villard sweetened the proposal by granting track rights to the NP until such time as its own line might be completed into Tacoma.
	www.appleorchardtours.com /hist18.htm (714 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00061545
		Henry Villard was one of the most remarkable and important figures to shape the tumultuous history of nineteenth -century America.
		Penniless and not speaking a word of English, Villard emigrated in 1853 from Germany at the age of eighteen, leaving behind the privileges and expectations of his affluent, stifling parentage.
		Villard reported firsthand on the Lincoln-Douglas debates and later, from the front lines of the Civil War, filed graphic, hard-hitting reports that earned him the admiration of the newspaper community.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0411/00061545.html (468 words)

	Henry Villard - Journalist, Industrialist, AbolitionistThe Early Years (1835 - 1853)
		Henry Villard was remembered not only as a man with great knowledge of railroads, but also as a human communicator and consensus-builder.
		Villard was chided a dreamer and was held responsible for the crisis.
		Villard and her charming daughter were not ashamed of their tears and cried heartily.
	www.schwab-writings.com /hi/vl/1.html (6088 words)

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		Henry Villard, Miss Anne Miller, president of the Suffrage League,,!?!.
		Henry Villiard, chairman of the legislative committee of the association, appealing to the Governor to champion e' the suffrage cause said: "To no one can we appeal for help in.
		Henry Villard, chairman of the j Legislative Committee of the association,!
	memory.loc.gov /master/rbc/rbcmil/scrp6005003/001.txt (874 words)

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