American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 - 1877) standing astride two railroads competing with James Fisk (1835 - 1872) for control of the Erie Railroad. He was infamously involved in the Erie Railroad War of 1868, when he battled Wall Street traders Jim Fisk and Jay Gould for financia...
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a famous industrialist who worked in railroads and shipping. He had accumulated the largest fortune in the U.S. at the time of his death, in 1877.
Appeared in "The Trial of Denton Cooley,"Nova,PBS, and "Deathwish,"Eye Witness,NBC; also appeared as Governor Prence, "The Peach Gang," Theodore Sedgewick, "The Last Ballot," Reverend Scanlon, "The Devil's Work," and Cornelius Vanderbilt, "The Erie War," allOur Story,PBS. ...
Though she achieved success in her native France, her work was met with even more enthusiasm abroad. In the United States her paintings were collected by railroad magnateCornelius Vanderbilt(he bequeathed theHorse Fairto the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1887), and in EnglandQueen Victoriawas know...
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He set out to control the railroad and to push its lines westward as far as Chicago, Illinois, and to defeat industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt's (1794–1877) effort to acquire this potential competitor. In the "Erie war" with Vanderbilt in 1868, Gould issued one hundred thousand shares of ...
His father, Wyatt Cooper, was a writer from Mississippi who married the heiress to one of America's greatest fortunes, Gloria Vanderbilt, in 1964. Anderson Cooper's mother was the great-great-granddaughter of shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, who died in 1877 and left a ...
J.P. Morgan is one of America's first entrepreneurs, and he modeled American prosperity. In this lesson, you will learn about how Morgan created...
1828-1852: Age 38. Peter Cooper is elected to the Common Council of New York, this is the first of many government posts Peter will hold. In this post, Peter brings clean water to New York (1835) by a long-distance pipe that traverses the Harlem river. The idea isn't original to ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt, American shipping and railroad magnate who acquired a personal fortune of more than $100 million. Vanderbilt began his transportation empire by operating a ferryboat between Staten Island and New York City. By the 1850s he had shift