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     • The Vanderbilt fortune declined due to a combination of factors including mismanagement, family disputes, and changing economic conditions. Poor financial decisions, lavish spending, and unsuccessful investments also contributed to the erosion of the family’s wealth.
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   What happened to Vanderbilt's fortune?

   • Slowly but surely, the Vanderbilt fortune was being dwindled away. By the time the 1920s rolled around, new federal taxes began to take a toll on the family’s wealth. During the Depression, properties were sold off and torn down in an attempt to gain back any of the lost riches.

   Riches To Rags: The Fall Of The Celebrated Vanderbilt Family

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   What happened to the Vanderbilt family?

   • As told by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II in his book Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt, not even 30 years after his death in 1877, the Vanderbilt family had fallen off the list of the wealthiest families in the United States.

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   How much money did William Vanderbilt inherited?

   • When his father, William Vanderbilt, died he inherited another $70 million. He did little to increase the family fortune, his own estate was about $73 million. Part of the reason he did not advance the already vast Vanderbilt wealth was his philanthropy. Another part was his investments in real estate.

   10 Reasons the Vanderbilts Lost the World’s Greatest Fortune

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   How did the Vanderbilts get their wealth?

   • The wealth of the Vanderbilt family goes back a long time, believed to have its origins with Cornelius Vanderbilt. Leaving school at the ripe age of 11, the young Cornelius is said to have borrowed a sum of $100 from his mother to buy a boat of his own.

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   Jan 29, 2021 · At the time of his death in 1877, his fortune was valued at $100 million (equal to nearly $2.5 billion today, via the Official Data Foundation), which was more money than was held in the U.S. Treasury at the time, according to Forbes.

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   Jul 3, 2024 · Between 1877, when his father died, and William Henry's own death in 1885, the Vanderbilt 's fortune increased from $100 million—more than that of the U.S. Treasury—to over $200 million because of William Henry's business efforts.

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   The Family’s Declining Business Fortunes. As the various Vanderbilts went about their business, spending the vast fortune accumulated by the Commodore and his eldest son, few of them paid close attention to the sources of that fortune.

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   Young Billy did his best: he inherited the family's 87% stake in New York Central and expanded the business, reportedly doubling the family fortune to over $200 million.

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   Aug 27, 2023 · Slowly but surely, the Vanderbilt fortune was being dwindled away. By the time the 1920s rolled around, new federal taxes began to take a toll on the family’s wealth. During the Depression, properties were sold off and torn down in an attempt to gain back any of the lost riches.

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   Jun 1, 2015 · At one point, Cornelius Vanderbilt was worth more than the US Treasury. So how did his family end up virtually penniless, just a few generations later?

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    The family's fortune was created by Commodore Vanderbilt, who at the time of his death in 1877, left an estate worth over $100m. Estimates put that amount of money as an equivalent of around $200bn[1].