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 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 ...

Hamilton was also credited as Cornelius Vanderbilt’s rival. “There was only one man who ever fought the Commodore to the end, and that was Jeremiah Hamilton,” Vanderbilt’s obituary in the ...

T.J. Stiles talked about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf, 2009). He was interviewed by… read more T.J. Stiles talked about his ...

By Enid Nemy Trying to reinvent herself as a model, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, a descendant of the railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, spent weeks training how to move in a pair of high-end heels.

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 ...

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 ...