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  2. Cornelius Vanderbilt III - Wikipedia

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    Croix de Guerre (Belgium) Brigadier General Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (September 5, 1873 – March 1, 1942) was an American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman. [1] He was a member of the Vanderbilt family. [2]

  3. John D. Rockefeller - Wikipedia

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    John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in modern history.

  4. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney - Wikipedia

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    Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney (February 20, 1899 – December 13, 1992) was an American businessman, film producer, government official, writer and philanthropist. He was also a polo player and the owner of a significant stable of Thoroughbred racehorses.

  5. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor - Wikipedia

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    Caroline Webster " Lina " Schermerhorn Astor (September 22, 1830 – October 30, 1908) was a prominent American socialite of the second half of the 19th century who led the Four Hundred. [1] Famous for being referred to later in life as "the Mrs. Astor" or simply "Mrs. Astor", she was the wife of yachtsman William Backhouse Astor Jr.

  6. Consuelo Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; March 2, 1877 – December 6, 1964) was a socialite and a member of the American Vanderbilt family. Her first marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough has become a well-known example of the advantageous, but loveless, marriages ...

  7. Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Alice Vanderbilt, c. 1895. With her daughter Gertrude in 1895. While teaching Sunday school at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City, she met Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam. They were married on February 4, 1867, at the Church of the Incarnation on Madison ...

  8. Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    Cornelia was born at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina on August 22, 1900. [4] She was the daughter, and only child, [5] of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958). [6] Her father, the youngest child of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa ( née Kissam) Vanderbilt, built a 250-room ...

  9. Erie War - Wikipedia

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    Cornelius Vanderbilt, who set his mind on building a railroad empire, saw multiple business and financial opportunities in railways and decided in 1866 to corner the market on Erie by silently scooping-up the Erie railroad stock. After succeeding, Vanderbilt permitted Drew to stay on the board of directors in his former capacity as treasurer.

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