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Primeros años. William Kissam Vanderbilt nació en 1849 en New Dorp, Staten Island ().Sus padres fueron Maria Louisa Kissam (1821-1896) y William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885), que era el hijo mayor del Comodoro Cornelius Vanderbilt, uno de los principales herederos de su fortuna y un miembro prominente de la familia Vanderbilt, que se convirtió en el norteamericano más rico después de que ...
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.
WILLIAM HENRY VANDERBILT (1821-1885) HE WAS THE SON, MAIN HEIR AND SUCCESSOR TO THE COMMODORE. HE BECAME THE CENTRAL PERSON WHO EXPANDED THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD SYSTEMHICH HIS FATHER DEVELOPED. William Henry Vanderbilt had two sons consisting of Cornelius Vanderbilt II [1843-1899] and William Kissam Vanderbilt [1849-1920].
William Henry Vanderbilt. railroad developer, financier. Born: 5/8/1821. Birthplace: New Brunswick, N.J. Being the son of Cornelius Vanderbelt did little to secure William a job in the family empire. His father regarded him as incompetent, and changed his opinion only when William had turned around the Staten Island Railroad (1857–63), which ...
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.
William Henry Vanderbilt III (November 24, 1901 – April 14, 1981) was an American politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1939 to 1941, and a member of the wealthy and socially prominent Vanderbilt family.
