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	Cornelius Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cornelius was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York to a family of modest means.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was buried in the family vault in the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island.
		Vanderbilt is the great-great grandfather of journalist Anderson Cooper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt (1369 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Vanderbilt loved a fight; he took Gibbons' one small vessel, put her in better condition, selected a hard-bitten crew and drove them to the limit of endurance, and within a year had turned a losing venture into a profitable one.
		Cornelius himself was not a figure for the drawing-room or for a luncheon table of fastidious gentlemen.
		Vanderbilt was committed to a private sanitarium for insanity, upon his delation, and perhaps because of her tearful yet stubborn refusal to move back to New York.
	www.costarica-net-guide.com /vanderbilt.html (2900 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cornelius Vanderbilt II (November 27, 1843 – September 12, 1899) was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
		He was the favorite grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who left him $5 million, and the eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, who left him close to $70 million.
		Their eldest son William Henry Vanderbilt II (1870-1892) died while a junior at Yale University, and Cornelius endowed a large dormitory there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt_II (277 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York to a family of modest means.
		It was her nephew by marriage that convinced Cornelius Vanderbilt to commit funding for what would become Vanderbilt University.
		Vanderbilt gave little of his vast fortune to charitable works, leaving the $1,000,000 he had promised for Vanderbilt University and $50,000 to the Church of the Strangers in New York City.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/c/co/cornelius_vanderbilt.html (550 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cornelius vanderbilt (may 27, 1794 - january 4, 1877) was a u.s.
		Cornelius vanderbilt ii (november 27 1843 - september 12 1899) was a member of the prominent united states vanderbilt family....
		Alfred gwynne vanderbilt, born october 20, 1877 - died may 7, 1915, was a sportsman and a member of the prominent united states vanderbilt family...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cornelius_vanderbilt_iii2.htm (1629 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine born in Port Richmond on Staten Island New York to a family of modest means.
		Vanderbilt gave little of his vast fortune charitable works leaving the $1 000 000 had promised for Vanderbilt University and $50 000 to the Church the Strangers in New York City.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was buried in the family in the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp Staten Island.
	www.freeglossary.com /Cornelius_Vanderbilt (634 words)

	Vanderbilt University Register: Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt fought war over route through Central America
		Vanderbilt's fight with Walker was so bitter that it is ironic that the shipping and rail magnate eventually funded the development of a university in Walker's hometown.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt had no intention of being outdone by his business rival, and decided he would find a way to take passengers to California quicker by crossing Nicaragua instead of Panama.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was so angry when he learned that he had been betrayed by Morgan and Garrison that he wrote them one of the shortest, and surely most ominous, letters of all time.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /News/register/Mar11_02/story8.html (1325 words)

	Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt of the New York Central Railroad
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in Staten Island, New York in 1794.
		For Vanderbilt et al, it broke the monopoly over interurban water transport that was held by their rivals.
		In both of the Drew vs. Vanderbilt battles, the Drew group had insider information that Vanderbilt's railroad was going to loose a government concession; normally that sort of news would have driven the price of any normal stock into the ground, making it a good pick for a short sell.
	nycsrr.8m.com /vanderbilt.htm (773 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794-January 4, 1877) was an American steamship and railroad builder, executive, financier, and promoter.
		Vanderbilt was born to a poor family and quit school at the age of 11 to work for his father who was engaged in boating.
		Vanderbilt is given credit for bringing about a great and rapid advance in the size, comfort, and elegance of steamboats which were considered "floating palaces".
	www.lasuerte.org /artvandy.htm (1531 words)

	A Classification of American Wealth : History and genealogy of the wealthy families of America
		Cornelius Vanderbilt had the qualities to succeed in his times : a strong will, unbound energy and an education to parsimony.
		His position was popular and the dispute climaxed in the famous US Supreme Court case Ogden vs Gibbons, which ended the monopoly and made Cornelius Vanderbilt famous.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt then merged his railroads and acquired other lines, building a through connection to Chicago, the fast growing capital of the Midwest.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/encyclopedia/profile.asp?code=2486 (511 words)

	Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site--Reading 1
		With $100 borrowed from his parents, Cornelius Vanderbilt purchased a periauger (a flat-bottomed sailing barge) and began a ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan.
		Young Cornelius then signed on as an apprentice on a variety of ships--sailing ships, steamships, and transatlantic cargo carriers--so he could learn all aspects of the seagoing industry.
		Cornelius II and William Kissam, the two oldest boys who had been running the New York Central Railroad system since their father's retirement in 1883, received $80 million and $60 million respectively.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/78vanderbilt/78facts1.htm (690 words)

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		Vanderbilt University's intercollegiate athletics teams are nicknamed the Commodores, a reference to Cornelius Vanderbilt's self-appointed title (he was the master of a large shipping fleet).
		When gold was discovered in California, Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company undertook a steamship and carriage business to link Greytown (present-day San Juan del Norte), at the mouth of the San Juan River (linking the Lago Nicaragua with the Gulf of Mexico), to the Pacific.
		On August 26, 1849, a contract was signed between Cornelius Vanderbilt, a U.S. businessman, and the Nicaraguan government.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cornelius-Vanderbilt.htm (323 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Cornelius Vanderbilt
		Vanderbilt Commodores: Too easy to enumerate the reasons why the least offensive team in the conference must give up their patently offensive name since the school was created by and named after the evil dead white man himself, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
		Vanderbilt was a robber baron who did the unthinkable: created value for millions of people through his private enterprises and made a whole bunch of money for himself in the process.
		Vanderbilt announced in 2002 that it would remove the word Confederate from the face of the university's Confederate Memorial Hall because it was inconsistent with the 1873 founding mission of the school's benefactor, shipping magnate and financier Cornelius Vanderbilt, says Schoenfeld, 43.
	news.surfwax.com /history/files/Cornelius_Vanderbilt_America.html (2051 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt - MSN Encarta
		Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), American industrialist, born on Staten Island, New York.
		Vanderbilt soon controlled much of the Hudson River trade; when his rivals paid him to take his traffic elsewhere, he set up routes from Long Island Sound to Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston.
		Vanderbilt sold his steamboats in 1862 and began to buy railroad stock; within five years he controlled the New York Central Railroad.
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	Cornelius Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When Cornelius Vanderbilt sought control by buying up the necessary stock, the board of directors thwarted him by the simple expedient of printing more and...
		On the one hand, he is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt and a descendant of the Commodore himself, Cornelius Vanderbilt, builder of one of the great American...
		In March 1896, Cornelius Vanderbilt II's private train arrived in Palm Beach along a railroad spur culminating at The Royal Poinciana Hotel.
	www.wikiverse.org /cornelius-vanderbilt (669 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE COMMODORE LEFT TWO SONS
		Vanderbilt explained that he needed four or five servants, as he frequently entertained prominent men in his home; that he had to have an attendant at all times; and that his expenses were very large generally, inasmuch as he was expected to sustain the family name and his father’s honor.
		Vanderbilt did his best to explain that although he may have borrowed money from men in Hartford who had been guests in his house, he had never done so while they were guests.
		Vanderbilt proceeded to dictate in a brisk, businesslike manner the exact words of the message which he wished to be transmitted from his mother in the world of the spirits to his father here on earth.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1966/3/1966_3_4.shtml (16222 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt - 1999 North America Railway Hall of Fame Inductee
		Cornelius Vanderbilt's primary contribution to the railway industry was his ability to use his financial resources to develop regional railroads and create more functional and profitable transportation networks.
		Vanderbilt continued this for the next 11 years, becoming a very rich man. In 1829 he decided to go on his own, starting a service between New York and Reekskill, followed by a ferry service to Long Island Sound, Providence, Boston and Connecticut locations.
		Vanderbilt's son, William, with Cornelius' backing was appointed receiver for the Staten Island Railroad, a horse-operated line bankrupted in 1857.
	www.narhf.org /nar99/NAR99awards_VAND.html (472 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt Biography / Biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt Biography
		Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), American steamship and railroad builder, executive, and promoter, transferred his attention from boating to railroads in his later years.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27, 1794, on Staten Island, N.Y. His father, from a long line of Dutch farmers, was imaginative but unthrifty.
		Vanderbilt opened transport and freight service between New York City and Staten Island and, by the end of the first year, returned his mother's loan with an additional $1,000.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-cornelius-vanderbilt (236 words)

	THE VANDERBILT LINEAGE
		Cornelius was the one who built the family fortune beginning with money borrowed from his mother, who insisted upon and received repayment of that loan.
		Cornelius started his business empire by ferrying passengers across from Staten Island to Manhattan, first by sail, and then by steam, so as to avoid the vagaries of the wind.
		Information on the Vanderbilt houses can be found at the New York Historical Society, as the Vanderbilts built so many houses on Fifth Avenue, gradually working their way uptown.
	www.outofindia.net /abroad/EVC/vanderbilt_lineage.htm (311 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cornelius Vanderbilt, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1851, when the gold rush to California was at its height, Vanderbilt opened a shipping line from the East Coast to California, including land transit across Nicaragua along the route of the proposed Nicaragua Canal.
		New Brunswick, N.J., succeeded Cornelius Vanderbilt as president of the New York Central RR and augmented the family fortune.
		Staten Island, N.Y., was a son of William H. Vanderbilt.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VandbltC.html (651 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was born at Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York, the son of a ferryman and farmer.
		Vanderbilt eventually controlled most of the ferry traffic in New York waters, but in 1818 he sold his fleet and went to work for a steamship line run by Thomas Gibbons.
		Vanderbilt was never a great philanthropist, but he did bequeth $1 million to Central University in Nashville, Tennessee, which became Vanderbilt University.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h845.html (538 words)

	Vanderbilt, Cornelius articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Vanderbilt, Cornelius VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS [Vanderbilt, Cornelius] 1794-1877, American railroad magnate, b.
		Vanderbilt University VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY [Vanderbilt University] at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; chartered 1872 as Central Univ. of Methodist Episcopal Church, founded and renamed 1873, opened 1875 through a gift from Cornelius Vanderbilt.
		In 1867, Cornelius Vanderbilt became president of the railroad and, through a series of mergers, formed the New York Central and Hudson River RR Company,
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/13340.html (485 words)

	Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: The Lusitania Resource
		Vanderbilt was on his yacht with friend Thomas Slidell when they watched the Lusitania complete her maiden voyage to New York in September of 1907.
		Vanderbilt's purpose in traveling on the Lusitania in May 1915 was to direct a meeting of the International Horse Breeders' Association.
		Vanderbilt helped her put it on, but before he could finish securing it, the Lusitania took her final plunge and water enclosed them, separating the two.
	rmslusitania.info /pages/saloon_class/vanderbilt_ag.html (1806 words)

	Vanderbilt News Service
		“Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt, the great steamboat and railroad magnate, was known for his obsession with making money and was almost as notorious for his lack of interest in charity and philanthropy.
		McGerr, a former colleague of Vanderbilt Professor of History Richard Blackett, is writing a history of the Vanderbilt family titled ‘The Public Be Damned’: The Vanderbilts and the Unmaking of the Ruling Class.
		Vanderbilt sociologist Dan Cornfield can discuss the effect immigration has had on new destination cities in the interior U.S. and how these cities are integrating immigrants into their communities.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /news/releases?id=25206 (492 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
		Cornelius Vanderbilt (ursprünglich: Van Der Bilt, Vander Bilt) (* 27.
		Vanderbilts Vater war ein armer Farmer und verdiente zusätzlich Geld mit Boottransportgeschäften im und um den New Yorker Hafen.
		Vanderbilt verließ die Schule bereits mit elf Jahren, kaufte mit sechzehn ein Segelschiff (mit elterlichem Zuschuss), mit dem er einen Fährdienst zwischen Staten Island und New York eröffnete.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Cornelius-Vanderbilt.html (280 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt: Biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1861, Vanderbilt presented the swift $800,000 steamship "Vanderbilt" to the United States government to be used for the capture of Confederate privateers.
		Later he endowed Vanderbilt University, founded at Nashville, TN, in 1872, with $500,000; afterward increased to $700,000.
		At the time of his death in New York City, January 4, 1877, his fortune was estimated at nearly $100,000,000, and he was supposed to be the richest man in the world.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/V/CorneliusVanderbilt.html (178 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt Page
		Vanderbilt’s employer, Gibbons, won a suit filed against him by Aaron Ogden a New Jersey steamboat operator who had purchased a license from the monopoly and who had brought suit against Gibbons for his violations (Daniel Webster was Gibbons’ attorney).
		Vanderbilt then participated in a scheme (which he suggested) to convince the "shorts" that the supporters of the Hudson were lacking in cash.
		Vanderbilt and his allies took control of the board of directors of the Hudson in 1864 and Vanderbilt became President of the railroad in 1865.
	pooleandrosenthal.com /vanderb2.htm (3008 words)

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