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Definition of Cornelius Vanderbilt
1. Noun. United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877).
Generic synonyms: Financier, Moneyman, Altruist, Philanthropist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Literary usage of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Little Visits with Great Americans: Or, Success Ideals and how to Attain Them by Orison Swett Marden (1904)
"This was young Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of the head of the house of Vanderbilt,
and great-grandson of his namesake, the founder of the Vanderbilt fortune. ..."
2. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"All men who have risen above the conditions of birth and surroundings and
maintained '"Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) founded Vanderbilt ..."
3. Men of Business by William Osborn Stoddard (1895)
"... like sixty-five years later, or in 1715, his grandson, the great-grandfather
of Cornelius Vanderbilt, went over to Staten Island and became the owner of ..."
4. A Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation by George Henry Preble (1883)
"First Steamboat commanded by Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1817.—First Steam Tow- Boat,
1816.—The Firefly, 1817.—First Steamboat on the Rhine, 1817. ..."
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