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a US family famous for being very rich. Cornelius Vanderbilt(1794-1877) became extremely rich by building steamships and railways in the 19th century. Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt University Whitney Gertrude Vanderbilt Gertrude Vanderbilt
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

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Vanderbilt University
Private university in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. It was founded in 1873 and named for benefactor Cornelius Vanderbilt. Baccalaureate degrees are awarded through its college of arts and sciences, school of engineering, and school of music. Master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs are offered through these and other schools, such as Vanderbilt's graduate school, divinity school, and schools of law, management, medicine, and nursing. Research institutes include centres for the study of education and human development, public policy, and the humanities
Cornelius Vanderbilt
v. born May 27, 1794, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y., U.S. died Jan. 4, 1877, New York, N.Y. U.S. shipping and railroad magnate. He began a passenger ferry business in New York harbour in 1810 with one boat; he added several others during the War of 1812 in order to supply government outposts. He sold his boats to work as a steamship captain (1818-29), then started his own steamship company on the Hudson River. By cutting fares and offering luxurious accommodations, he soon controlled the river traffic. He then provided transportation along the eastern seacoast. By 1846 he was a millionaire. He formed the Accessory Transit Co. to transport passengers and freight from New York to the California gold fields via Nicaragua. He again undercut his competitors, and they bought him out at a high price (1858). Turning to railroads, he acquired controlling stock in the New York and Harlem Railroad. After losing a battle for control of the Erie Railroad (1868), he bought and consolidated the Hudson River and the New York Central railroads (1869). After buying the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad (1873), he provided the first rail service between New York and Chicago. At his death, he had a fortune of more than $100 million, the largest sum accumulated in the U.S. to that date. He gave $1 million to Central University (later Vanderbilt University). He left almost all the rest to his son William H. Vanderbilt (1821-85), who greatly expanded the New York Central network, acquired other railroads, and doubled the family fortune
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
v. orig. Gertrude Vanderbilt born Jan. 9, 1875, New York, N.Y., U.S. died April 18, 1942, New York City U.S. sculptor and art patron. Great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, she was born to great wealth and studied sculpture in New York City and Paris. Among her major works were the Titanic Memorial (1914-31) in Washington, D.C., and Victory Arch (1918-19) in New York. All her works were simple, direct, and traditional. In 1929 she offered to donate her collection of about 500 works by modern American artists to the Metropolitan Museum of Art but was refused by the traditionalist director. The next year she founded the Whitney Museum of American Art, also in New York City, which opened in 1931; today it is the foremost museum of American art
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