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Vanderbilt, Cornelius

  1. 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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Notes

His son, William Henry Vanderbilt, summed up the Vanderbilt business philosophy in his famous comment, “ The public be damned !”

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Example Sentences

Examine photographs of Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

He is one of the best known men in the country, and he is called Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Twenty-three years later another copy was bought by Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt for 1,200 dollars.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was not a person who could be bluffed or frightened.

When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, America's first great industrial combination had become an established fact.

We began this review of American business with Cornelius Vanderbilt as the typical figure.

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