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John Wesley, 30
Price, Bruce, 100–02, 130
Quesada, Gonzalo de, 156
Railroads, American (see also indi vidual companies)
as business enterprises, 14
consolidation of, 63
expansion of, 14, 24
impact of, 14, 25
investment in, 69
technology of, 14
Riel, Louis, 91, 202
Rogers, Major A.B., 10, 75
Ross, James, 148, 150, 179, 181
Rosser, Thomas L., 74
Royal Commission on Insurance, 180
Ryan, Thomas, 161
Ryder, Albert, 149
St. Andrews, New Brunswick, 135,
147, 183, 191
St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern
Railroad, 42, 46, 55, 200
St. Louis, Missouri, 42, 200
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railway Company, 67, 70, 76
St. Paul, Minnesota, 52, 67
Saskatchewan (railway car), 99, 124,
196
Schreiber, Collingwood, 78, 89, 105
Secretan, J.J., 74, 79
Shaughnessy, Thomas George (later
Lord Shaughnessy), 64, 74, 91,
108–09, 116–17, 121, 124–25, 128
Shepard, David, 78
Sifton, Clifford, 122
Skinner, Thomas, 114, 120
Smith, Donald (later Lord
Strathcona), 9–10, 67, 70–71, 92,
95–96, 131
Soo Line (see Minneapolis, St. Paul &
Sault Ste. Marie Railroad)
Southern Minnesota Railroad, 47–54,
67
Spanish-American War, 154
Stephen, George (later Lord Mount
Stephen), 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,