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Vanderbilt, Cornelius

  1. An American business leader of the nineteenth century; the founder of the Vanderbilt fortune. The family's money derived first from shipping and later from railroads.


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Notes

His son, William Henry Vanderbilt, summed up the Vanderbilt business philosophy in his famous comment, “ The public be damned !”
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Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 297-299, 311, 317, 324.

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Vanderbilt, Cornelius, viii, xxxi, 304, 406, 407, 408, 409.

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