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Henry Villard (April 10, 1835 – November 12, 1900) was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway. Born and raised by Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard in Speyer, the Rhenish Palatinate of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Henry Villard 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.
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Henry Villard gained national significance as a journalist, advocate of abolition, and railroad financier. For Oregon, he is best remembered as the man who brought the first transcontinental railroad to the Northwest in 1883, connecting Oregon to the rest of the country.
Henry Serrano Villard (March 30, 1900 – January 21, 1996) was an American foreign service officer, ambassador and author.
She is the great-granddaughter of Henry Villard, a Bavarian native who came to America with only 20 borrowed dollars in his pocket—only to make groundbreaking financial ventures and become president of the Northern Pacific Railroad and owner of the New York Evening Post.
Dec 1, 2003 · Into the crisis stepped Henry Villard. The owner of the Northern Pacific Railroad was a well-known philanthropist who had contributed all the money for the construction of the first building at the University of Oregon. Villard’s tale is a classic immigrant success story.
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Henry Villard. Subjects: Villard, Henry, 1835-1900 ; Northern Pacific Railroad Company ; Oregon ; Railroads. Henry Villard (1835-1900) was born Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hillgard in Bavaria, Germany, to a family of lawyers and judges.
