Henry Villard
Journalist, Author
1835 – 1900
Who was Henry Villard?
Henry Villard was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Born and raised Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard in the Rhenish Palatinate of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Villard clashed with his more conservative father over politics, and was sent to a semi-military academy in northeastern France. As a teenager, he emigrated to the United States without his parents' knowledge. He changed his name to avoid being sent back to Europe, and began making his way west, briefly studying law as he developed a career in journalism. He supported John C. Frémont of the newly established Republican Party in his presidential campaign in 1856, and later followed Abraham Lincoln's 1860 campaign.
Villard became a war correspondent, first covering the American Civil War, and later being sent by the Chicago Tribune to cover the Austro-Prussian War. He became a pacifist as a result of his experiences covering the Civil War. In the late 1860s he married women's suffrage advocate Helen Frances Garrison, and returned to the U.S., only to go back to Germany for his health in 1870.
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- Born
- Apr 10, 1835
Speyer - Also known as
- 美国糖类公司
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Peoria
- Belleville
- Speyer
- Died
- Nov 12, 1900
Dobbs Ferry - Resting place
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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