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Hace 17 horas · At the time, approximately 1% of the U.S. population was extremely wealthy; chief among the elites were Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and railroad magnate; John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil Company; and Andrew Carnegie, a steel magnate and philanthropist whose gifts often went toward building libraries across the United States.
Hace 4 días · William’s grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt, the man who had made the Vanderbilt fortune through railroads. As a young man, William had inherited millions (billions in today’s money). He...
Hace 4 días · Around that time, his sons Cornelius and William Kissam were respectively constructing the Cornelius Vanderbilt II House and the William K. Vanderbilt House just a few blocks north on Fifth...
Hace 4 días · Business mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt set up the Accessory Transit Company in Nicaragua to do the job. Steamers would sail to San Juan del Norte on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.
Hace 4 días · Photo via Library of Congress. Welcome to our Then & Now column, exploring the ever-changing landscape of New York City. The rise and fall of the Vanderbilt family, which still pervades American...
Hace 5 días · This rich history all started with Cornelius Vanderbilt, who began to amass the family fortune from railroads and shipping businesses in the late 1800s. He became the wealthiest person in America in the 1860s, and went on to pass that title down to his son, William Henry Vanderbilt.
Hace 1 día · The first gift of Old Master drawings, comprising 670 sheets, was presented as a single group in 1880 by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, though most proved to be misattributed. The Vanderbilt gift launched the collection, and the Department of Paintings also eventually acquired drawings (including by Michelangelo and Leonardo ).
