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    Henry Villard

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    General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗


    — Henry Villard

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    I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. ↗


    — Henry Villard

    #contact #got #had #him #i

    I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. ↗


    — Henry Villard

    #abraham lincoln #ballot #chagrin #fully #i

    No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States. ↗


    — Henry Villard

    #delay #fairly #felt #help #him

    The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations. ↗


    — Henry Villard

    #chairs #curious #either #fingers #him






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    Villard returned to Europe helping German investors acquire stakes in the transportation network and returned to New York in 1886. He then succeeded in obtaining a controlling interest in the Northern Pacific property and organized a new corporation that was named the Oregon and Transcontinental Company. He died of a stroke at his country home in New York in 1900.

    He supported John C. He visited Oregon that summer and being impressed with the region's natural resources began acquiring various transportation interests in the region. Villard returned to Europe helping German investors acquire stakes in the transportation network and returned to New York in 1886.

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