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| | 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. |
 | | With his wife, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, 18451934, he built the famous "Breakers" estate in Newport, R.I. Their daughter, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 18751942, became a sculptor, art patron, and founder (1930) of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. |
 | | New Brunswick, N.J., succeeded Cornelius Vanderbilt as president of the New York Central RR and augmented the family fortune. |
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