VANDERBILT'S PART IN TUNNEL COMPANY; Cornelius Represents Only His Own Interests. MAY BE ACTIVE IN THE WORK His Presence in the Directory Not Indicative of an Alliance with the New York Central.

Shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt has been described as combative. Author T.J. Stiles found court records that showed Vanderbilt engaged in fist-fights and won into his 50s. In ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt saw the trouble coming. By 1873, the 79-year-old "Commodore," as he was called, was no stranger to risk: calculated bets with steamboat and railroad companies had made him by ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt III, a descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, was found stabbed to death in his Staten Island home Thursday morning, police said. The partly clad body of Vanderbilt, 72 ...

His great-great-grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, a gangling 26-year-old youth in 1924, set out to pander to the public by founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family.

T. J. Stiles wrote, “ The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt,” which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. According to Stiles, Vanderbilt’s life serves as ...

After all, his second wife, not the Commodore himself, chose to create the only record his birthplace.” Entrance to the Vanderbilt Mausoleum at Moravian Cemetery where Cornelius is interred.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest and most powerful man in America when he died in 1877. Had he liquidated his holdings, it would have taken a fifth of the nation's money supply to buy his assets.

Picture this bawdy scene from the life of one of America's leading business buccaneers. In 1815, then in his 20s, Cornelius Vanderbilt spent his days sailing schooners up and down the Hudson River ...