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Vanderbilt, Cornelius
- An American business leader of the nineteenth century; the founder of the Vanderbilt fortune. The family's money derived first from shipping and later from railroads.
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His son, William Henry Vanderbilt, summed up the Vanderbilt business philosophy in his famous comment, “ The public be damned !”
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Examine photographs of Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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He is one of the best known men in the country, and he is called Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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Twenty-three years later another copy was bought by Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt for 1,200 dollars.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt was not a person who could be bluffed or frightened.
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When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, America's first great industrial combination had become an established fact.
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We began this review of American business with Cornelius Vanderbilt as the typical figure.
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