Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on the 27th day of May, in the year 1794, on a farm on Staten Island. His father was a well-to-do agriculturist, not possessed of any considerable fortune ...
In 1794, Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York. He changed his name to Commodore Vanderbilt in 1807. He was an American shipping and railroad magnate who amassed a ...
The house in which Commodore Vanderbilt pesided during the last twenty years of his life, No 10 Washington place, was built by himself, and under his own direction. It was commenced in May ...
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It was the nickname of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder and first benefactor of the university that bears his name (more on ...
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The Vanderbilt family's wealth grew out of the shipping and railroad industries, both of which were largely monopolized by the the family patriarch, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, in the late ...