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Henry Villard

American journalist and financier
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Original name:
Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard
Born:
April 10, 1835, Speyer, Bavaria
Died:
Nov. 12, 1900, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., U.S. (aged 65)

Henry Villard (born April 10, 1835, Speyer, Bavaria—died Nov. 12, 1900, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., U.S.) was a U.S. journalist and financier, who became one of the major United States railroad and electric utility promoters. Villard emigrated to the U.S. in 1853 and was employed by German-American newspapers and later by leading American dailies. He reported (1858) the Lincoln–Douglas debates for eastern newspapers and the Pikes Peak gold rush (1859) for the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. During the Civil War he was a war correspondent, first for The New York Herald and then for the New York Tribune. In 1881 he purchased ...(100 of 259 words)

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