Letters : to Henry Charles Lea, 1869.
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Villard, Henry, 1835-1900
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Henry Villard was a journalist, railway promoter, and financier. Born in Bavaria, he came to the United States in 1853. He worked as a journalist for a variety of newspapers and was a Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald and New York Tribune . In 1873 Villard became a representative for a group of German bondholders of the Oregon and California Railroad, and his career as a railroad promoter in the Northwest was launched. He was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1881-1884. V...
American social science association
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The American Social Science Association was founded in 1865 in Boston by intellectuals and reformers seeking to understand and improve a rapidly changing society. The association sponsored meetings, solicited papers, and collected information bearing on social welfare topics such as civil service reform, treatment of the insane, prison discipline, criminal law, sanitary conditions, and education and employment of the poor. Subsequent, more specialized organizations of professional social scienti...
