Word: hilgard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Son Henry Hilgard Villard, at his marriage in Manhattan to Mary Caroline St. John, fainted as he rose from the altar after the ceremony, was carried out by his brother, Oswald...
Henry Villard bought The Nation in 1 88 1. Villard was a native of Bavaria; his name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, but he changed it when he quarreled with his father and fled to the U. S. A reporter, Civil War correspondent, railway promoter, financier, Villard married Gar rison's sister Fanny. He left The Nation to his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, when he died...
...Villard's father, Henry Villard (originally Heinrich Hilgard), builder of the Northern Pacific Railway, came to the U. S. from Germany at 18. Mr. Villard himself was born in Wiesbaden, Germany...