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5 days ago · William Henry Vanderbilt was the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and the wealthiest American after taking over his father’s fortune in 1877, inheriting over $100 million. But...
5 days ago · The tool, called EV Fingerprinting, was the culmination of the dissertation work of Ariana von Lersner, a former graduate student and current postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Alissa Weaver, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. Alissa Weaver, left, and Ariana von Lersner. Harrison McClary/Vanderbilt University
4 days ago · The home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II was allegedly the largest single-family house in New York City at the time. Feeling that others were trying to outdo his house, the Cornelius...
5 days ago · One notable competitor was Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt started making crossings over the Hudson in a sailboat before switching over to steam power.
6 days ago · When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads ...
6 days ago · Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, the only child of George and Edith Vanderbilt, made life choices that weren’t always in alignment with her prominent status as heiress of her father’s fortune, leading to a “hush hush” attitude about her chosen path post-Biltmore.
5 days ago · María Magdalena Campos-Pons is an internationally renowned artist who currently calls Nashville home. Campos-Pons is the Cornelius Vanderbilt chair of fine arts and identifies just as much as a teacher as an artist.
