During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or around $200 billion in today's currency. Having amassed his fortune in the ...

His grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, succeeded him as the president and chairman of the New York Central Railroad in 1885. As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot ...

Vanderbilt, a grandson of the shipping and railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt, first came to Asheville in 1888 with his mother, who sought out the mountainous area to recuperate from a long bout ...

Sandy Point Farm was built in 1902 for Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. His father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, built the Breakers mansion in Newport. Sandy Point Farm, now ...

Its founder, Cornelius Vanderbilt, made his fortune in the city as a shipping and railroad tycoon during the Gilded Age. New York today is the home of the largest Vanderbilt alumni population ...

Let me introduce you to Cornelius Vanderbilt ... bought control and overhauled the Harlem railroad and soon became profitable and Vanderbilt made a bundle on the stock. Soon Harlem was trading ...

It was during the Gilded Age, in 1888, that George Washington Vanderbilt, the grandson of famed industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt ... a temporary three-mile-railroad from Biltmore Village.

In his opening statement over the dispute of railroad tycoon “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt’s will, attorney Scott Lord proclaimed that Vanderbilt was “a believer in spiritualism” and ...

That bridge was built by one of the first railroad tycoons, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who became president of the Hudson River Railroad in 1867. Vanderbilt also owned the New York & Harlem ...