Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

Known as Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 - January 4, 1877), he was an American business magnate who built his fortune by building railroads and shipping companies. Vanderbilt's early career was ...

Known as Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 - January 4, 1877), he was an American business magnate who built his fortune by building railroads and shipping companies. Vanderbilt's early career was ...

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 a ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt – now a staple of American industrialization and wealth ... While his business grew, Vanderbilt married his first cousin Sophia Johnson in 1813, ...

Take Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was a scrappy and pugnacious man who started his career ferrying cargo around the New York harbor. He borrowed $100 from his parents to invest in his own boats.

Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On this day 133 years ago, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the world’s richest man, died. Where The ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt died in January 1877. Six months later, the greatest social insurrection of the nineteenth century paralyzed the operations of Vanderbilt’s New York Central Railroad (by ...