As a great-grandson of the tough old Commodore who built the New York Central, Cornelius Vanderbilt had some claims to aristocracy. Grace’s social assets were far more modest. Her father ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on the 27th day of May, in the year 1794, on a farm on Staten Island. His father was a well-to-do agriculturist, not possessed of any considerable fortune ...

The Vanderbilt family's wealth grew out of the shipping and railroad industries, both of which were largely monopolized by the the family patriarch, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, in the late ...

He was a great-great grandson of Railroad Builder Cornelius Vanderbilt ... But the tough, devoutly Republican old commodore was no model for Frederick Vanderbilt Field. Before his generation ...

Buell Hall is the only reminder of the lost Bloomingdale Asylum and the battle between real estate and mental health in ...

R. Webb moved to Tennessee, settling in Culleoka. When Vanderbilt University was through a million dollar gift from “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt, the wealthiest man in the country, at the time, ...

The Vanderbilt Commodores knew that they had a lot to prove despite the scorching hot start they got off to during the ...

Vanderbilt Commodores. After a lackluster 2025 class where the focus was to bring in transfers instead of high school pr ...

PENDING: Access the advance paper when available. Speaker: Joni Hersch (Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Economics) Abstract: There is substantial evidence of discriminatory treatment of ...