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Vanderbilt died on December 8, 1885, in New York, New York. In his will he left substantial bequests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), and various churches and hospitals. Three of his sons—Cornelius (1843–99), William Kissam (1849–1920), and George Washington (1862–1914)—continued the ...
William Henry "Billy" Vanderbilt I ( New Brunswick, 8 mei 1821 – New York, 8 december 1885) was een Amerikaanse ondernemer, magnaat en lid van de prominente Vanderbilt-familie . Vanderbilt werd geboren als de oudste zoon van Cornelius Vanderbilt. Zijn vader hield zorgvuldig toezicht op zijn opleiding en bezorgde zijn 18-jarige zoon een baan ...
William Henry Vanderbilt nació el 8 de mayo de 1821 en New Brunswick, NJ, EE. UU. Magnate del ferrocarril estadounidense y filántropo, durante su vida casi duplicó la gran fortuna de la familia Vanderbilt, en gran parte legada a él por su padre, Cornelius Vanderbilt . Un joven frágil y aparentemente poco ambicioso, William fue despedido ...
William Henry Vanderbilt (1821–85), president of the New York Central and numerous other railroads, was a quiet, honest, modest, and, above all else, moderate man. Although the most important railroader of his time, he would be almost wholly forgotten today were it not for four simple words he so uncharacteristically and incautiously uttered on October 8, 1882: “The public be damned.”
16 de dic. de 2021 · William Henry Vanderbilt was the fourth child and first son of Cornelius Vanderbilt's 13 children. He was born in 1821 and as a young man, his father didn't believe that he was ambitious. Instead of helping out with the family's shipping business, Cornelius sent William to manage a family farm in Staten Island in 1840.
Breaking ground in 1889, Biltmore was the vision of George Washington Vanderbilt II, the youngest child of railroad tycoon William Henry Vanderbilt and his wife Maria Louisa Kissam. At the beginning of Biltmore’s construction, the United States had reached the peak of what historians now call the Gilded Age, a time period which lasted from the 1870s until the early 1900s.
13 de feb. de 2023 · The son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Henry Vanderbilt was a railroad magnate who doubled his family’s fortune. Synopsis Born on May 8, 1821, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, William Henry Vanderbilt was the main heir to his father, Corneilius Vanderbilt’s vast estate.
