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Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard was born in Speyer, Germany. He was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway. He reported the Lincoln–Douglas debates for eastern newspapers and the Pikes Peak gold rush for the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. During the Civil War he was a war correspondent, first for The New York Herald and then for the New York Tribune. In 1881 he purchased The Nation and the New York Evening Post.