9, 65, 67–68, 70, 76,
86–91, 93, 96, 99, 103–04, 106– 109,
112, 115, 117–18, 120, 131, 193
Telegraphy, 14, 19, 24–25
Thomas, General Samuel, 157
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 149
Underwood, Frank, 63
Van Horne, Abram (grandfather), 11
Van Horne, Adaline (daughter), 38,
128–29, 133, 142–44, 199
Van Horne, Augustus Charles
(brother), 13, 17
Van Horne, Cornelius (father),
10–13, 15–16, 18, 197–98
Van Horne, Edith, 141
Van Horne, Elizabeth (sister), 12–13
Van Horne, Jan Cornelissen, 10
Van Horne, Lucy Adaline (wife),
31–33, 38, 40–42, 46–47, 53–54,
61, 63, 99, 118, 129, 132–35
Van Horne, Mary (mother), 10, 13,
15, 18, 34, 129
Van Horne, Mary (sister), 34, 55, 61,
129, 133–34, 142, 195, 199, 201
Van Horne, Richard Benedict
“Bennie” (son), 54–55, 95, 98,
129, 141–42, 150, 162, 185, 189,
193, 201
Van Horne, Theodore (brother), 13
Van Horne, William (son), 40, 54
Van Horne, William Cornelius:
in Alton, Illinois, 37–39
ancestry of, 10–11
art collecting, 147–49
birth of, 10
in Bloomington, Illinois, 28–30,
34–35
bluntness of, 74, 105, 122, 164
childhood of, 14–19
children, love of, 132, 142, 169–70
collecting as a hobby, views on, 17
corporations, view of, 174
courtship of Lucy Adaline Hurd,
32–33
death and funeral of, 195, 205
as detail-oriented, 58, 81, 164
education of, 15, 17, 19
East Selkirk estate of, 170, 182–83,
203
and electric street railways, 181
energy of, 24, 27, 50, 52, 58, 117,
135, 153
in England, 117, 193
fossil collection of, 16, 25, 46
gardening, as interest of, 61, 128,
health of, 117, 120, 123, 125, 153,
187, 194–95
as host, 135, 138, 139
immigration, as interest of, 85,
100, 103, 121–22
in Italy, 118
Japanese porcelain, collection of,
150–52
in Joliet, 14–17, 22, 28, 31, 190,
199
knighthood, 119
land settlement, views on, 104
in Milwaukee, 62–63, 201
in Montreal, 72, 127
Montreal residence, 128–30
in New York, 160, 162–63
paleontology, as interest of, 15, 25
philanthropy of, 189
physical appearance of, 23, 45, 116
politics, involvement in, 90–91
pranks, as love of, 22, 27, 45,
95–96
press coverage, 75, 78
religion, attitude towards, 18
rivalry with James Jerome Hill, 76,
114–15
in St. Louis, Missouri, 42, 46
San Zenon des Buenos Aires
(residence), 193
stock breeding, as interest of, 170,
182, 203
war, view of, 26, 193–94
in Washington, 115, 123, 160
in Winnipeg, 72–74
Van Horne, William Cornelius
Covenhoven (grandson), 136–
37,142–43
Vancouver, British Columbia, 87, 100
Vedder, Elizabeth (see Van Horne,
Elizabeth)
Whitman, Walt, 26
Whitney, Henry, 179
Whyte, William, 107
William Notman and Son, 86
Willison, Sir John, 122, 139
Willson, Henry Beckles, 32
