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Apr 16, 2010 · His parents were farmers and his father also made money by ferrying produce and merchandise between Staten Island and Manhattan in his two-masted sailing vessel, known as a periauger. As a boy, the...
While some of Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants gained fame in business, others achieved prominence in other ways: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877–1915), was a passenger on the RMS Lusitania and died when it sank. Alfred's eldest son, from his first marriage, William Henry Vanderbilt III was Governor of Rhode Island.
Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertson or Aertszoon ("Aert's son"), was a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to New Amsterdam (later New York) as an indentured servant in 1650. [4]
Dec 16, 2021 · William Henry Vanderbilt was the fourth child and first son of Cornelius Vanderbilt's 13 children. He was born in 1821 and as a young man, his father didn't believe that he was ambitious. Instead of helping out with the family's shipping business, Cornelius sent William to manage a family farm in Staten Island in 1840.
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Cornelius’s son William Henry Vanderbilt (1821–85) took over from his father. He more than doubled the family fortune. The next generation of Vanderbilts was led by three of William Henry’s four sons: Cornelius (1843–99), William Kissam (1849–1920), and George Washington (1862–1914).
The third generation of Vanderbilts—following Cornelius and William Henry Vanderbilt —was led by three of William Henry’s four sons: Cornelius (1843–99), William Kissam (1849–1920), and George Washington (1862–1914).
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Cornelius "Corneel" Jeremiah Vanderbilt was born on Staten Island on December 29, 1830. He was the second son of thirteen children born to Cornelius Vanderbilt and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt, who were first cousins.
