After making his fortune in steamships, Cornelius Vanderbilt turned to railways. Thomas Gibbons, a wealthy businessman with a commercial steamboat service traveling between New Jersey and New York, ...
After making his fortune in steamships, Cornelius Vanderbilt turned to railways. Thomas Gibbons, a wealthy businessman with a commercial steamboat service traveling between New Jersey and New York, ...
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During the Gilded Age in the late 1800s, railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest man in America with a net worth of $100 million, or around $200 billion today — more money than the ...