RARE "19th Century New York Evening Post" Henry Villard Cut Signature COA For Sale

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RARE "19th Century New York Evening Post" Henry Villard Cut Signature COA:
$299.99

Up for sale a RARE! "New York Evening Post" Henry Villard Cut Signature. This item is

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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 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. While in Germany, Villard became involved in investments in

American railroads, and returned to the U.S. in 1874 to oversee German

investments in the Oregon and California Railroad.

He visited Oregon that summer, and being impressed with the region's natural

resources, began acquiring various transportation interests in the region.

During the ensuing decade he acquired several rail and steamship companies, and

pursued a rail line from Portland to the Pacific Ocean; he was successful, but

the line cost more than anticipated, causing financial turmoil. Villard

returned to Europe, helping German investors acquire stakes in the

transportation network, and returned to New York in 1886.Also in the 1880s,

Villard acquired the New York Evening Post and The Nation,

and established the predecessor of General

Electric. He was the first benefactor of the University of Oregon, and contributed to

other universities, churches, hospitals, and orphanages. He died of a stroke at

his country home in New York in 1900.

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