Show HEaY VILLAD DEAD Ii r ft I Financier Passes Away at His Summer Home l APOPLEXY STHE CAUSE i Ho Had Been 111 for Some Time and Slnco Last Tuesday Unconscious I Funeral Will Occur ou Wednesday I His Wife Who is a Daughter ofT of-T I William Lloyd Garrison Survlves i J BrIef Sketch of His Life Was Engaged En-gaged iu Journalism for a Numbsr i j of Years Career ns nnnucierl ItI It 1 II f I 1 J 1 j I I New York Nov 12 Henry Villa rd i r the financier died early tills morning ai his summer home Tndrivwood Park I jiear Dpbbs Ferry TIe pause of death 1 was apoplexy r6m which no liadi been a sufferer forlseveral weekfi Aveek I ago he contracted a severe cold which hastened the enL Mr YHlard Tiajl been unconscious nearly all the time slnoe last Tuesday When death came there wore gathered A gath-ered around the bed Mr VII lards wife i who was a daughter of William Lloyd I Garrison his sons Oswald G Harold G with his wife Mrs William L Garrison I Gar-rison ot Boston his sisterinlaw and Mr Ylllards only daughter Mrs James vl Bell of Dresden iGcrmany In ad1 diLlon to the family Mr VIHard leaves a sister Mrs Emma von Xylander wife of Gen Kobert von Xylander of1 the Bavarian army Mr Ylllard had resided re-sided In Dobbs Ferry during the summer sum-mer months for tho past eighteen years FUNERAL OCCURS WEDNESDAY 3 It has been arranged that tho funeral will take place from the residence on Wednesday afternoon The services will conducted by the Rev Theodore I Williams oC Tarrytown The interment inter-ment will be in the family plot In Sleepy Hollow cemetery where repose the remains of his youngest son Illli I Kurd who died when D L years old and I who drove the golden spike completing I of which 1 the Northern Paclllc railroad r i his father was president r II As aoon as Mr Vlllards death be ri came known telegrams of condolence began to arrive at the house It had been the Intention of the VIHard family fam-ily to return to their New York city home about the middle of October but the health of Mr VIHard was so precarious pre-carious that his physicians persuaded him to remain Jn the country until he should become stronger I APOPLEXY TliJE CAUSE OF DEATH Harold Vlllard tonight staled that a report had been circulated that his father had died from the effects of a cancer in the throat This statement he said wns erroneous Mr Vlllards death was caused by apoplexy alone and ho had never had tb cancer inthe throat or other serious throat troubl BORN IN BAVARIA Henry Villard was born Helnrlch Hll gard lii Speyer Rhelnlsh Bavaria on April 31 1S35 His greatuncle Theodore Theo-dore father of Julius Hllgard who became be-came superintendent of the Unltey t Stale coast survey led a migration thc family connection to Bellevlllfe liLt In lS35 His father Gustav was In the judicial service of the Bavarian Government Gov-ernment and Judge cCthe Supreme court at Munich Young llllgard was educated at Fchools in Zwulbrucken Plmlsiuourg and Speyer but In October 1853 broke off his university studies and 9et out for the United States Intending to Join the colony of his rich relatives at Belleville Belle-ville His fathers opposition to this step made him borrow the surname of a French schoolmate at Phalslbourg and ho became Henry Villard ENGAGES IN JOURNALISM Arriving at Belleville he became a newspaper reporter and continued In the profession until 1SGS During these 5 ears he served as a legislative correspondent corre-spondent in Indiana and Illinois a political po-litical reporter reporting the Lincoln Douglas debates the Chicago conveiir lion which nominated Lincoln the Lincoln Lin-coln campaign and later as a war correspondent I cor-respondent and European qorrespond I ent The papers he served In this period pe-riod were the Cincinnati Commercial the New York Herald the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune and part of the time he was at the head of a news bureau at Washington Early in 1SSL Mr Villard acquired the New York Evenfifg Post and the Nation Na-tion MARRIED IN BOSTON In January ISM In Boston he married mar-ried Fannie the only daughter of Wil liam Lloyd Garrison In lEGS he was chosen secretary of the newlyfounded American Social Science association having its headquarters in that city and did not finally relinquish the post until 1S71 BEGINS RAILROAD CAREER It was in the latter year that while on a visit to Europe Mr VJllard be gan his railroad career He formed a connection with Frankfort and Berlin hankers and in 1873 returned to the Tnited States buying for the German landholders the property of the Oregon 6 CallfornlaPallroad company and the Oregon Stoamshlp company biiing made president in 1S75 He aited as one of the reclvcra o tfje Knm3 Pacific Railroad cumtfanyjruid lares Wight up the bonds of the road Be Became In terested in the Oregon Btcanv Naviga tion company and the Oregon Railway Navigation company ofVhich he b camo president and 4Wroftmd tho Oregon TranscdaUnemairViivhlfifi he merged the two other companiesto a socalled blind pool vjtlfjjje North ern Pacific being chosen president Of I the latter company FORMS GENERAL ELECTRIC CQ I A few years later thy companies In omen lie was Interefetod becameTJO in volved that there was a collapse Jn vhich Mr VJllard fluttered verv heavily Returning to Germany he formed new financial relations which enabled him 10 repair his fortune and i omlng back to this country he started once more as a capitalist In JSDO he purchased from Thomas M Edison Ills electrical manu facturing Interests and with tho Edt son Lamp company oC Newark N J and the Edison works at Schencctady N y as a basis organized the Edison General Electric company of which ho became president serving In that ca pacity for about two years In October 18S9 ho became chairman of the Northern Pacific board of di rectors but the panic of 1S03 again oc casloned the loss of most of his for tune and led to his withdrawal from railroad management |