Q: What do you know about the former Vanderbilt estate on West Hill Drive in West Hartford? G.A., Farmington A: Railroad baron “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the 110-acre parcel for a ...

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Vanderbilt was an unfeeling brute who abused his family, especially his epileptic son Cornelius Jeremiah. Vanderbilt contracted syphilis in 1839, began to suffer dementia in 1868, and was used as ...

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT may not have died as rich as his father, only part of whose fortune he inherited, though that is by no means certain. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt saw the trouble coming. By 1873, the 79-year-old "Commodore," as he was called, was no stranger to risk: calculated bets with steamboat and railroad companies had made him by ...

Sure, Cornelius Vanderbilt was a robber baron who made a fortune off the sweat of immigrant labor and by monopolizing pretty much all travel east of Chicago. Sure, he was uneducated, and his ...

Vanderbilt at their box in Saratoga ... Despite the fact that Cornelius Jeremiah was damaging the family reputation, they besieged society and assiduously cultivated the right people.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, the original "robber baron," was a self-made steamboat magnate who mastered the dynamics of the emerging railroad industry, challenged the financier Jay Gould in the New York ...

Long before Warren Buffett urged investors to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful, Cornelius Vanderbilt built an empire doing that very thing. Cornelius Vanderbilt ...

Adam Smith imparts Cornelius Vanderbilt’s battle to dominate the shipping route from New York to San Francisco. From 2016. Show more In the 19th century, so-called 'Robber Barons' - men like ...